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Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by stevenfoster »

I try to support writers directly. eg. You can purchase Paul Millerd's Pathless path on his gumroad page and it comes with both the ebook and audiobook: https://pathless.gumroad.com/l/pathlesspath

Tanbooks also sells mp3s of their audiobooks directly on their website. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle changed my life profoundly for the better. https://tanbooks.com

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by barbazoo »

tene80i wrote: post #12

Audible, but your library might have them too. Don't use torrents. That's cheap. Pay authors, just like you expect to be paid for your work.

> Audible

> Pay authors

Personally, because I also care about fair business practices, I avoid anything Amazon.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by tene80i »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #13
laksmanv wrote: post #2

Audible

You can "rip" books you "buy" from Audible if you want them on a device that doesn't support Audible or is otherwise mainly offline.

Is this still possible? I’d love to move some of my audiobooks to an offline device but I struggled to find a way to do this.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by barbazoo »

ortusdux wrote: post #21

Tangentially related, but can anyone suggest an alternative to goodreads for discovering new audiobooks based of my past ratings?

I hear good things about https://joinfediverse.wiki/BookWyrm but I’m not sure it’s a drop in replacement for Goodreads.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by flkiwi »

Crisco wrote: post #14

I purchase my audiobooks from libro.fm. It’s like Audible where you subscribe and get a credit every month, but part of the profit goes to support local book stores, and the books are DRM free.

libro.fm is great. I happily subscribe to them because it's all so effortless.

Probably worth noting as an aside that bookshop.org is sometimes mentioned as a libro.fm-like Amazon alternative for ebooks (NOT audiobooks), but my brief experiment with them was awful: they were much, much more restrictive than even Amazon, at least before Amazon's removal of file download.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by anton-c »

barbazoo wrote: post #23
tene80i wrote: post #12

Audible, but your library might have them too. Don't use torrents. That's cheap. Pay authors, just like you expect to be paid for your work.

> Audible > Pay authors Personally, because I also care about fair business practices, I avoid anything Amazon.

Not many people seem to feel the same about spotify which is a shame. Pretty bad at paying artists.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by PokemonNoGo »

anton-c wrote: post #25
ortusdux wrote: post #21

Tangentially related, but can anyone suggest an alternative to goodreads for discovering new audiobooks based of my past ratings?

Ask in the subreddit of the genre? Those are some of the more mature subs usually.

Reddit shouldn't be included in anyone's digital detox.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

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Post by tene80i »

barbazoo wrote: post #23
tene80i wrote: post #12

Audible, but your library might have them too. Don't use torrents. That's cheap. Pay authors, just like you expect to be paid for your work.

> Audible > Pay authors Personally, because I also care about fair business practices, I avoid anything Amazon.

Sure, but you can buy audiobooks from elsewhere. It’s up to you.
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