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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.
If you want a public tracker, I’ve heard good things about Audiobookbay
And even if it's a bit of a hassle, I always check if there is an option to buy books/audiobooks as directly as possible from the author (in some cases you can buy content directly on the author's website, for example).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vqm2/episodes/player
My observation is that even though it's BBC "radio," the stuff on Radio 4 is more like an audio book, compared to American radio dramas which are more like "plays," as they're more acted out and can include sound effects and music. The BBC stuff is very dry, like someone reading to you.
If you want an equivalent digital news detox, see what reading services for the blind are available in your area. Where I live, one of the local NPR radio stations carries audio of someone reading today's newspaper, and it's also available online.
Once every few month I transfer everything to an SD kart and hand it to her.
So: youtube is pretty full of audiobooks also very recent ones - and shes only searching for german ones.
I tried a web interface before among other thigs. The telegram bot is perfectly fine because she can just use the share button on youtube on her mobile.
If the bot receives a message specifically from her, it is stored in a special folder in Jellyfin, and jf displays the recent added tracks.
She spent the last few days and weeks sorting 500+ GB of audiobooks onto an external SSD she bought on my recommendation.
I give lots of tech support, but I try to do it in a way that she gets something out of it so I have to spend less work later.
I haven't been able to get her to use ChatGPT so far, but I will eventually.
She used my telegram bot so much that I rewrote the original software (1) to something better (2) (that I can use regulary as well). The second iteration supports mqtt and magic wormhole and sends wormhole codes back to the sender after downloading. It was a bit much for her, she never used wormhole but I do.
1: https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1ehcqc1/anna...
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
But I'll also go out on a limb and suggest that, for a "digital detox", you should read physical books instead.
I wish all of these apps implemented a "Default Sleep Mode" between, say, 10pm and 7am so if you press play it defaults to only playing for 30 mins. Podcast Republic has this.
I would rather it just assume that it would stop playing after 30mins, if I ever play anything at night.
VLC for listening on and copying to mobile.
Tip: In your digital detox, I also highly recommend an app like "Freedom" to block your time wasters. It's a bit like parental control but for yourself to timebox time spent on the news or HN.
Note: This won't help you personally but expect to help HN readers in general.
Don't use torrents. That's cheap. Pay authors, just like you expect to be paid for your work.
> Pay authors
Personally, because I also care about fair business practices, I avoid anything Amazon.