If you want to pay for audiobooks, Libro.FM is a DRM free alternative that allows you to easily download your books without any issues that Libation solves for. It also supports local bookstores in your community while not giving more to Amazon. Only a handful of books aren’t available on Libro but it’s been a seamless transition for us. It’s only going to be difficult if you’re one of those folks who returns/refunds audible credits regularly as it’s not easy to do with Libro.

I've definitely spent way too much and own way too many books, but I'd be nervous that they're going to ban me if I tried to archive my however many hundred books on there.

They should absolutely be required to outright allow it though.

I doubt they really care, there's still a way (to my knowledge) to download audiobooks from audible to mp3. You have to dig a bit to find the option from what i remember. This just makes it easier and in chapterized .m4b goodness.

If anyone is into selfhosting things I recommend audiobookshelf if you want to self host and stream audiobooks. Such a cool project!

Removing DRM and archiving is perfectly legal here in Estonia, only thing that counts as piracy here is distributing copyrighted materials without a license. I'm pretty sure it's not in the US but check your local laws.

Did you know that authors only get 25% cut from their book? Amazon is pocketing the rest. Sanderson said couple of days ago, that he made them change it and it should come to effect sometimes in 2024. We don't know what the new terms are, but I doubt it is even remotely close to already pretty low industry standard of 70%. I would guess it will be somewhere around 40 at best.

OpenAudible. I strip the DRM from all of my Audible audiobooks and archive them.

There’s a free way to do it using rainbowcrack but OA is simpler.

Having control over things you paid for is not piracy, but the corpos disagree.

I use Libby to get audiobooks from my library for free.

I had it for a while but it's just too expensive if you, like me, tend tp give up on books part way through.

Yeah, after the yuzu debacle, if I were anywhere close to the gray side of piracy I would pull down any and all links to funding.

I'm not sure how you would actually get that necessary funding - maybe through discord links periodically?

As long they don't paywall the latest update allowing to listen the leaked books before their release, they are good.

They make it pretty clear that you lose credits when you cancel. I don't love that, but when you consider how much of a discount credits can be from the cheapest other way to buy some books, I don't think it's really unreasonable, either.

As for you seemingly repeatedly exchanging books for new ones, that's definitely not the intent of them allowing you to return books you're not happy with.

It used to be 12 months, and I was so mad at that that I stopped subscribing, used all my credits, and basically never went back. I won't even consider subscribing again so long as things I pay for don't continue to be mine. I paid for the those credits, and they should be there forever until I use them. If they don't like that, they should give my money back instead.

Wait, really? This is the first I've heard of that. That's ridiculous. If you don't use your credit each month, then you're just paying for nothing that month, essentially? Feels like that should be illegal.

Yep I can confirm this. Happened the same for me and I decided to never renew the subscription again.

That sounds illegal.

Also the headphones have two cables on one side

The dangly-but-not-dangling bits of the bracelet bangles appear to be attempting to tunnel into his tattoos. Gravity and anatomy: shit AI doesn't understand.

You need to own the licence.

a lot of people who don't understand how AI works think it's using stolen images so it's close enough for me

Bandcamp

IMHO a paid and closed source program shouldn't have "open" in their name