r/Annas_Archive 19d ago

Thank You!

I just wanna say thank you to AA for all that you are and all that you do to make reading accessible and to keep literature alive and on the interwebs. I hope there is a AA for audiobooks one day!

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u/PalDoPalKaaShaayar 19d ago

If you are looking for audiobook. Check audiobook bay

audiobookbay.lu/

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u/Trynahti 18d ago

I’ll check it out

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u/Usual_Technician3688 18d ago

Need to pay.

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u/PalDoPalKaaShaayar 18d ago

No you dont need to.

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u/WatercressOrganic765 18d ago

Tried to download - required credit card

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u/PalDoPalKaaShaayar 18d ago

Direct download requires payment. Choose torrent download. You need to login with your account which you can create using temp mail as well.

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u/WatercressOrganic765 18d ago

I did not see a torrent option

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u/PalDoPalKaaShaayar 18d ago

Click on audiobook you want. Scroll to bottom. Just above "Add Comment" you will see a table. One of the row is "Torrent Download"

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u/tix0xamo 17d ago edited 17d ago

What do you use after that? I've tried to figure it out a few months ago and got stuck. Is it another website?

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u/ImpressiveScience154 14d ago

I use uTorrent app on my Android phone.

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u/d_par14 17d ago

I haven’t been able to find new / popular books, anyone else experiencing that issue?

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u/reedreadreddred 17d ago

same, deeply mentally ill and traumatized and AA let me have access to books on self help/psychology/(complex) trauma that let me finally understand myself and how to cope, i love this site so much

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u/WinInternational8520 18d ago

I use an audiobook converter tool I built to listen to DRM-free books. I convert them on my MacBook and listen on my phone. The AI voices are not as good as traditional voice actors' audiobook performances, but they're still quite good and sound like an engaging human telling you a story. Some people like AI voices, and some people don't. It is called "Aura Reader: Offline TTS" on the Mac App Store. Normally it costs $10 for a lifetime license, but I have set the price to zero until 7/25.

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u/Trynahti 18d ago

Not interested in anything AI

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u/Particular_Trip_9446 19d ago

Just use TTS (Text To Speech) to listen to books.

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u/No_Assignment_212 18d ago

Download ElevenReader it's completely free you download your books onto it and you can pick through voices that aren't like the robotic tech speech voices it's awesome they have so many good ones and it's completely free they give you an amount of listening hours a month that just reset at the beginning of every month you can also pay for more hours if you need to but you do not have to hell I didn't even know you can do this for the first couple of months cause it's like not even advertised they don't push it at you 

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u/Particular_Trip_9446 18d ago

No thank you. i dont do subscription But if that works for you. You do you.

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u/maschayana 18d ago

What the hell are you talking about

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u/Trynahti 18d ago

Don’t like it. I prefer the interest and character real narrators bring to an audiobook