There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
Yeah I looked too but I really enjoy listening to warhammer audiobooks. Libby is not an option and the libraties here don’t have any of those books available. Audible has every single one the moment they release.
I read the other day here on Lemmy about various US libraries accepting anyone to sign up. They say it’s for local residents, but anyone can sign up with a fake address and use it for Libby. IIRC, Chicago and Brooklyn among others were confirmed to be working. Maybe they have the books? I think if you search Lemmy for “Libby”, you’ll find the thread somewhere.
I pay for a subscription to Scribd, i think its like $12 or $14 USD/month. I started using it after I heard an ad on Levar Burton’s short story podcast, “Levar Burton Reads”. His recommendation sold me because he’s a genuine advocate for literacy. I don’t THINK it’s Amazon affiliated, I try not to use Amazon products and services, but it’s getting harder all the time to avoid them. It has slightly less of a selection than audible, but I find many great things on there. It doesn’t have tokens or whatever the audible bullshit is, you can just listen to whatever you want whenever you want. There’s no ads, but it does make recommendations and suggestions, I’m sure those are some kind of sponsored. When I signed up, it also automatically signed me up for a free service called farfaria, or something like that, which is a children’s audio book service. I had no interest in that, but my mother, who is a nanny, really enjoys it. I really really like it, but there are some titles (can’t think of them off the top of my head, but mostly big name and brand new stuff) that aren’t on there that I do feel like I miss out on.
Was listening to one of my audio books. After chapter 24 it came in with music then was a narrator introducing the book I am currently listening to. Thought my app glicthed and was back at the beginning then after 30 seconds it continued at chapter 25.
Then it did again at chapter 40. I then knew what it was. It a placement for them to put an ad. I owned this book for years and suddenly this was added in.
Well, time for me to power listen to my remaining audible books before they’re ruined for me. I’m glad I went back to paperback books. Ain’t no ads getting suddenly added in my old faithfuls any time soon.
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Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.
fuck amazon in general tbh
Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.
There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
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Yeah I looked too but I really enjoy listening to warhammer audiobooks. Libby is not an option and the libraties here don’t have any of those books available. Audible has every single one the moment they release.
I read the other day here on Lemmy about various US libraries accepting anyone to sign up. They say it’s for local residents, but anyone can sign up with a fake address and use it for Libby. IIRC, Chicago and Brooklyn among others were confirmed to be working. Maybe they have the books? I think if you search Lemmy for “Libby”, you’ll find the thread somewhere.
I like downpour.com, and I have used audible-tools.kamsker.at to remove the DRM from audible.
I pay for a subscription to Scribd, i think its like $12 or $14 USD/month. I started using it after I heard an ad on Levar Burton’s short story podcast, “Levar Burton Reads”. His recommendation sold me because he’s a genuine advocate for literacy. I don’t THINK it’s Amazon affiliated, I try not to use Amazon products and services, but it’s getting harder all the time to avoid them. It has slightly less of a selection than audible, but I find many great things on there. It doesn’t have tokens or whatever the audible bullshit is, you can just listen to whatever you want whenever you want. There’s no ads, but it does make recommendations and suggestions, I’m sure those are some kind of sponsored. When I signed up, it also automatically signed me up for a free service called farfaria, or something like that, which is a children’s audio book service. I had no interest in that, but my mother, who is a nanny, really enjoys it. I really really like it, but there are some titles (can’t think of them off the top of my head, but mostly big name and brand new stuff) that aren’t on there that I do feel like I miss out on.
Are they actually? I’m so glad I cancelled my subscription.
Was listening to one of my audio books. After chapter 24 it came in with music then was a narrator introducing the book I am currently listening to. Thought my app glicthed and was back at the beginning then after 30 seconds it continued at chapter 25.
Then it did again at chapter 40. I then knew what it was. It a placement for them to put an ad. I owned this book for years and suddenly this was added in.
Think it a test.
Well, time for me to power listen to my remaining audible books before they’re ruined for me. I’m glad I went back to paperback books. Ain’t no ads getting suddenly added in my old faithfuls any time soon.
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