Hello fellow pirates 👋
I’m sick of Audible and it’s buggy app. Due to their excessive a/b testing the app stops working every second night. So I setup a selfhosted audiobookshelf instance.
However, I need my audiobooks to fall asleep and I don’t want to listen to the same books again and again, so I need a new source. Do you have any recommendations? In best case in German language, in worst case in English.
Thank you in advance! ☺️
Your local library can be an awesome source for audiobooks. And don’t forget to check your local thrift stores and flohmärkte once in a while, many audiobooks for 1 - 2 €, also many recent ones… Rip it, put it on your audiobookshelf, it is very easy and fast for most audiobooks.
Audiobookbay
I also found another source myself: The library. Just found out our village has one. It has like 150 audio books on cd. As it’s only open for 2 days a week I have to wait a bit. But then I may visit them with my notebook and an external cd drive and make some…backups 😉
Usenet is still one of the best sources when it comes to german media.
Also audiobooks.
You might wanna check out https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide/
Cheers
I’ve never used Usenet before. So, thanks for the guide! 😊
Checkout https://getlibation.com/ so you can backup your Audible books too.
Good hint! I already did so. But if anybody reading this who has an Audible account: Use this tool; it’s awesome!
I feel like it’s only a matter of time until Amazon kills this too after they locked down Kindle dedrm.
When the time comes I guess I will have to find a better way to get audiobooks than signing up for 1€/month Audible trial twice a year.
Probably. Libation uses the auth key from the Audible iPhone app. However: Apps have to have their secret hard coded. They can only rotate it. YouTube tries this too. But one update later yt-dlp works again. So I guess this is a fight Amazon can’t win.
Not on the high seas, but 831 results: https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry?and[]=language%3A"German"
There are many fairy tales. I loved to hear these as child. Thanks for sharing!
For English audiobooks I use audiobookbay, I think you can find something in other languages too
Thanks for the tip! There are indeed a lot of german ones 👌
For small values of “a lot”. I am in the same boat, there are not many German audio books.
Try YouTube. It’s surprising how much stuff ends up there and doesn’t get deleted. And you can easily download the stuff with yt-dlp.
Wow. You’re right. Just searched for “Terry Pratchett” and got a playlist with 40+ books. Btw: yt-dlp also supports youtube music links. Including albums or even artists 😉 just in case you want to dump spotify in favor of navidrome
Well, I’ve listened to audiobooks on Spotify (and Tidal) for a while, but that’s not piracy. You could try “hoerbuch” followed by the top-level domain of the United States. And the local library here has several shelves filled with audiobooks. I might have ripped a few to listen to them on modern devices…
Thanks! The theme makes me quite nostalgic. Reminds me of good old movie blog 😉
There are some great resources being posted, but I would like to offer a different one. MyAnonaMouse is a private tracker just for books and book adjacent things (comics, audiobooks, even radio shows) and at least at the time I was looking was said to be the best spot. It wasn’t hard to get in, the rules are VERY lenient and it’s quite easy to build up a large ratio with their points. As long as you are comfortable with using torrents and are able to leave them running to share the love with others I have yet to find a book unavailable. Feel free to ask about MaM if you have any questions.
I’m not that into torrents, but i’ll undust my qBittorrent and give it a try! Thanks!
fmhy.net has german stuff, they might have what you are looking for or check the german torrent trackers https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2
Thanks, I’ll check it out ☺️
