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Looking for free Audiobooks (self.Blind)
submitted by ObsoleteOtter
Audiobooks have been a godsend for me. I've found a couple on YouTube but now it's getting harder to find them for free. And I prefer not to pay 30 dollars a book.
ZoneFive 2 points 6y ago
https://librivox.org
djdogjuam2 1 points 6y ago
Yes, Love Mark Nelson, he does a lot of science fiction stories, but that's personal.
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ObsoleteOtter [OP] 1 points 6y ago
Thank you!
ian356094 1 points 6y ago
There are a ton on YouTube. Just set the filter to long videos.
Inersho 1 points 6y ago
Are you looking to just pay nothing? Audible.com is 22.95 a month for two books, so only 11.50 a book. Their selection is great!
danie911 1 points 6y ago
I was using mp3 audio books,, but now im using epub ebooks in ibooks on my iPad, it's size effective, more available and easier to use. I'm new to reddit so if you want, you can inbox me for help.
rkingett 1 points 6y ago
Here is a website that has options for free audiobooks.
https://audiobookboom.com/listeners
You can also sign up for a library that has the largest digital audiobook collection, as well. This way, there is no legal grey area. :)
https://audiobookboom.com/listeners
You can also sign up for a library that has the largest digital audiobook collection, as well. This way, there is no legal grey area. :)
Marconius 1 points 6y ago
If you are in the United States, you register with the Library of Congress and your local public library and you get access to all of the free audiobooks available in libraries. You download an app for iOS called bard or overdrive, and those give you access to the audiobooks much like the same way audible works. Through Bard, you can also order braille books, large print editions, and other free matter for the blind. The only drawback is most of the digitized tape recordings have a really annoying hiss in the background along with reverse side echoes, and thankfully with books recorded past 2001 or so they have done away with those issues since they are on CD or pure digital recordings, and the production quality/narration is quite low compared to audible, but it's free!
simpleman84 1 points 6y ago
theaudiobookbay.com
It's awesome. I love it. It uses your torent provider.
It's awesome. I love it. It uses your torent provider.
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
That domain isn't the official website! As far as I know, it's controlled by a third party. If you must do this, at least use the correct http://audiobookbay.me/ address. But then, you seem mostly interested in promoting behavior that will get people arrested. So I dunno.
m1k3y61 1 points 6y ago
There are none in my country, at least none of them are in english. Are there any less official resources? You can contact me privately if you wish to do so.
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
There are. But you need to be extremely familiar with computers to use them, both to prevent yourself getting viruses, and to prevent yourself getting arrested or worse. Things were much easier back in the day, when only blind people wanted audiobooks. Now audiobooks are a huge market for sighted people, so publishers are much more interested in enforcing there copyrights.
simpleman84 1 points 6y ago
You aren't going to be arrested. I don't know what this "or worse" you speak of is, but I know a lot of people who pirate media and not one have been arrested or even close.
The worst that happens is you get your internet connection slowed down by your isp. Do your downloading from a place with public wifi or learn how to hack wifi. In fact, find someone who supports this copyright naziiam, such as a lawyer who does these kinds of cases, a movie producer, something like that, and hack their wifi. It's impractical, but wouldn't it be awesome if you could get their speed slowed down because of complaints from copyright holders? roflmfao muahahahahaha.
Anyway, viruses are a possibility, but the torent-based site which I mentioned above has provided me lots of books without incident.
It really isn't hard to use torents. You don't have to know a lot about using computers. I think this comment was posted by someone who was simply trying to discourage you from getting any media for free.
He must benefit from the $30 per book which you are being pushed in to paying. There are huge companies who abuse copyright laws to make as much money as humanly possible using the poor starving artist as their moral hostage. You protest strict laws about what you can put on YouTube and strict controls on how you get your media, you must be one of those mean people who want to keep poor starving Joe the artist/musician/writer from making any money. You want to keep him from his dream and make him work at McDonalds to get by.
There was an episode of South Park about this years ago which got it spot on.
The worst that happens is you get your internet connection slowed down by your isp. Do your downloading from a place with public wifi or learn how to hack wifi. In fact, find someone who supports this copyright naziiam, such as a lawyer who does these kinds of cases, a movie producer, something like that, and hack their wifi. It's impractical, but wouldn't it be awesome if you could get their speed slowed down because of complaints from copyright holders? roflmfao muahahahahaha.
Anyway, viruses are a possibility, but the torent-based site which I mentioned above has provided me lots of books without incident.
It really isn't hard to use torents. You don't have to know a lot about using computers. I think this comment was posted by someone who was simply trying to discourage you from getting any media for free.
He must benefit from the $30 per book which you are being pushed in to paying. There are huge companies who abuse copyright laws to make as much money as humanly possible using the poor starving artist as their moral hostage. You protest strict laws about what you can put on YouTube and strict controls on how you get your media, you must be one of those mean people who want to keep poor starving Joe the artist/musician/writer from making any money. You want to keep him from his dream and make him work at McDonalds to get by.
There was an episode of South Park about this years ago which got it spot on.
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
If you're torrenting on a public tracker, without a seedbox paid by bitcoin or in some other anonymous way, accessed via a VPN, you are a complete moron. The vast majority of countries have three strikes laws; the first thing that will happen is your internet will be disconnected. If you're lucky, that's it. If you're not, civil lawsuits and possible jail time will follow. I realize copyright laws are stupid and immoral. But if you're torrenting in public at this point, you deserve what you're going to get.
simpleman84 2 points 6y ago
Okay, using the seedbox and vpn are great ideas, but for the sake of op's peace of mind, I have to re-iterate what I said earlier.
I know a lot of people who pirate, but I don't know anyone who has been arrested. I am not torenting in public, but I'm just saying it's a way to avoid having your own account slowed down when your isp gets that complaint from Randomhouse, or Disney, or some other similar company. I wouldn't do it, because at that point, it brings the copyright complaint down on the business with the wifi.
I saw another post that says you live in Canada, and I don't know how the laws are up there, but down here, if I'm not mistaken, they focus mainly on profiting from copyrighted material, so even though it might be technically illegal to download or upload something, it isn't really a concern for the government unless you made some kind of financial proceeds from it. I think that's why most of the people I know aren't getting anything any worse than a slower connection.
I know a lot of people who pirate, but I don't know anyone who has been arrested. I am not torenting in public, but I'm just saying it's a way to avoid having your own account slowed down when your isp gets that complaint from Randomhouse, or Disney, or some other similar company. I wouldn't do it, because at that point, it brings the copyright complaint down on the business with the wifi.
I saw another post that says you live in Canada, and I don't know how the laws are up there, but down here, if I'm not mistaken, they focus mainly on profiting from copyrighted material, so even though it might be technically illegal to download or upload something, it isn't really a concern for the government unless you made some kind of financial proceeds from it. I think that's why most of the people I know aren't getting anything any worse than a slower connection.
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
What country are you from? Many countries have free audiobook libraries for the blind that you should get in contact with.
ObsoleteOtter [OP] 1 points 6y ago
America. Really? That sounds amazing
BARDLover 1 points 6y ago
Bard.loc.gov
As my name says, I love them too.
As my name says, I love them too.
rkingett 2 points 6y ago
I love BARD too!
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
I'm canadian, so I don't have much info on how things work in the US. However, the place to start is:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
Unuhi 2 points 6y ago
NLS rules once you get an account.
Another possibility: regular library, depending on what city you live in. They also have audiobooks. If they use overdrive you can also download them from home.
Another possibility: regular library, depending on what city you live in. They also have audiobooks. If they use overdrive you can also download them from home.
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