A lot of people recommend AudiobookBay but FreeMediaHeckYeah warns to only use their torrents. Are there any known safe sources that provide direct downloads of audiobooks? Preferably something I don’t have to sign up for.

And no, unfortunately I do not have access to a library at this time.

  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    May I ask why you can’t use the torrents on Audiobookbay? I use it and it works great. Torrents usually download in just a few minutes.

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    2 months ago

    I use Nicotine+. It connects to the Soulseek network. I find many audiobooks there. Usually fast downloads. People share directly from their computers.

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        2 months ago

        No, because you share individual folders accessible to anyone. It’s not homogeneous data that is pooled together based on hash.

        If you have a copy of Dungeon Crawler Carl, and another guy has a copy of Dungeon Crawler Carl, people can choose to download from either of you, but not from both of you at the same time.

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        2 months ago

        Exactly what dubyakay said. Also you don’t have to share anything if you don’t want to. No automatic upload.

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    2 months ago

    Ive used myanonamous for years, its a private torrent tracker. Obviously needs sign up though sorry.

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    2 months ago

    I recommend Soulseek as well. You can find almost any audiobook on there, no VPN needed. Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android. iPhone users are out of luck though.

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    2 months ago

    I didn’t ever make an account there I just paste the hash into Tixati but yeah if your client doesn’t support it you can also convert the hash to a magnet link on a lot of sites.

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    2 months ago

    Hoopla or Libby. Have a family member or a friend get a library card then give you the number. Download these apps and then use the library card information they give you. There you go.

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    2 months ago

    There are web based torrent downloaders like WebTorrent. But you’ll probably need to sign up for audiobookbay or hope that some public service like The Pirate Bay has what you’re looking for.

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      2 months ago

      You don’t need to sign up to audiobookbay. Just paste the hash into your torrent client.