Death to America

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I torrent on myanonamouse. YouTube occasionally has stuff, internet archive, or even the Pirate Bay. I know it’s public, it’s watched, blah blah blah, but unless it’s the new hotness, I’m not real worried about Random House or Penguin Audio coming after my ass.

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      +1 for MAM. Super friendly tracker and easy to get in to (it’s an open interview process). Really generous bonus system and freeleech system too.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I use Audiobookbay, and 3xforum

    Audiobookbay has a lot of books, but the direct download links are scams or paid. You can use the magnet links, though. Either sign up for an account and you get access to a limited number of magnet links per day, or you can just copy the “infohash” field and put it at the end of “magnet:?xt=urn:btih:” without the quotes, and then paste that into your torrent software.

    The 3xforum has direct download links, but a much smaller selection

    • gramxi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      kind of, but it’s annoying to set up for non-fiction books with lots of quotes and ellipses, and extra painful when the ebook’s footnotes and citations are formatted weirdly.

      Straightforward novels, memoirs, etc are mostly fine and useable, but lacks the charm of a narrator doing different voices. You can make AI recognize character dialogue and give it different voices, but it’s hit or miss whether it’ll detect the right person in my experience.

    • Jucha [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Balabolka is older program for turning any book for audiobook. Several ebook reader software also offer read aloud feature.

      Several good sounding AI options are currently behind paywalls. Text to speech tech is going forward with great speech, but public offerings are currently limited.

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    3 months ago

    While you arw it, check out the podcast “History of philosophy without any gaps”

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        3 months ago

        In the main series, Spanish Renaissance, in the second one its started with Chinese philosophy, but I’m still in the begging of the 20’ century of Africana philosophy.

  • Jucha [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    For pirating audiobooks I first try Mobilism. Second option is searching for a streaming site with duckduckgo ( audiobook + book name), If that does not lead to results then it time to torrent from audiobookbay