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! ☺️
For English audiobooks I use audiobookbay, I think you can find something in other languages too
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 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 😉
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.
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.
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
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...
Audiobookbay
There is a curated list of links for german audiobooks: tarnkappe.
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
Not on the high seas, but 831 results: https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22German%22
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