It would be a shame not to shamelessly plug author (and anti-DRM activist) Cory Doctorow here. He has some really fun science fiction, and sells his audio books DRM-free through various sources.

Shamelessly, because lots of his protagonists are self-hosters of various types.

Readarr and MaM.

I use Downpour for Audiobooks. It is similar to Audible where audiobooks can be purchased individually, or there is a subscription that provides credits to purchase audiobooks. The audiobooks are drm-free and can be downloaded. I have not found a way to automate the download and transfer to my Audiobookshelf server, but I don’t mind doing it manually considering I average around two or three audiobooks a month.

I download them either from Youtube or from the podcasts’ RSS feeds.

Sadly Audible and removing DRM with ffmpeg.

Libro.FM seems to be an honorable website to purchase DRM free audiobooks. They’ll send money from your purchase to your local bookstore of choice.

I use annas archive for ebooks but I organize those with calibre, not audiobookshelf because I have a somewhat peculiar organization scheme that relies on calibres custom columns and export feature.

My audiobooks I get from abtorrents but I heard great things about myanonamouse

I hear Anna’s Archives is great for ebooks. I don’t do audiobooks, and can’t stand podcasts, but it sounds like a lot of good suggestions were made for those already.

I use audible, then download with audible-cli and decrypt with ffmpeg.

Ripping childrens audiobooks from youtube with ylt-dlp is my least favorite because uploaders upload trash a lot, i.e. they let it repeat two times or even more often within one video.

I prefer subscribing to podcasts and downloading audiobooks via the usual means. There’s also good stuff on deezer which is very convenient.

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