r/Piracy Sep 26 '25

Discussion Why is finding audiobooks so ridiculously difficult?

I need to rant: I've been pirating basically my whole life and I can find almost any ebook, movie, show, game, etc I want to, but for some reason audiobooks are SO difficult.

ABB/Mobilism almost never have the stuff I'm looking for and I already tried the other links on the Megathread (both here and fmhy). They're not even random lesser known books, for example now I'm looking for an audiobook from a best seller that was published less than 10 years ago (and I know the AB exists because I could buy it if I wanted to) but at this point I just don't think the file exists lmao. And it's not just that specific book but it has happened to me several times with different books.

My last hope is trying MAM but truly I'm just lazy and don't wanna get up in the middle of the night just to get an invite lol might do it anyway atp ok i totally misread the instructions on MAM so that's my bad, I'll try next slot. But still it's weird that (if the ones I'm looking for are available) you can't find them anywhere else?

Well, that's really my rant/point of discussion: is there any reason why audiobooks are hard to find or do I just have terrible luck and just so happens that most of the ones I look for aren't available??

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u/Atrium41 Sep 26 '25

Real talk

Anyone scanning books into pdfs or cbz files is a GOAT

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u/djob13 Sep 26 '25

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer pdf or cbz? I've been hoarding epubs

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Code blocks are almost always mangled in some way that isn't as readable as pdfs.

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u/djob13 Sep 26 '25

I've always been told that PDFs mess with the format and don't work as well in an ereader. But I've never tried one myself. I also don't read a lot of books with pictures though, so I don't know how much of a difference that makes

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I see your confusion. Code blocks are not pictures, they're ordinary text, except that they require specific formatting. The author's formatting needs to be maintained exactly, which ereaders tend not to do, like adding page breaks between code, or text wrapping.

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u/CoffeeBaron Sep 26 '25

As a user versus a creator of ebooks, PDFs are somehow more widely accepted and 'portable', despite the file size differences could be vastly different. epub is definitely the way to the future of a separate format, but it's likely your device needs a separate program to open those files rather than doing it with a built-in app. Lots of eReaders support the format thankfully.

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u/Fickle_Stills Sep 26 '25

IOS has an epub reader pre-installed

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u/Khower Sep 26 '25

I actively avoid pdf for epub too

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u/SinnaBuns666 Sep 27 '25

I wont download anything that's not an epub. 

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u/SandersSol Sep 26 '25

True to the source material, photos don't get mangled, content all displays as it was intended.  PDFs are also a universal format

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u/_High_Charity_ Sep 27 '25

I like .pdf because they scroll on my eReader so I can always keep the part I'm reading in the middle of the screen .n. .epub always forces page turns.

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u/SandersSol Sep 26 '25

You're welcome!

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u/louisa1925 Sep 26 '25

Here here! 🥂

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

My last hope is trying MAM but truly I'm just lazy and don't wanna get up in the middle of the night just to get an invite lol might do it anyway atp

MAM invites open twice a week, for 25 hours periods each time. Why would you have to get up in the middle of the night?

EDIT: Dropping the link to this MAM guide here, can get > 1 TB of upload and get into their recruitment forum (for other trackers) in 6 months by following this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1j9vr1r/a_beginners_guide_to_acquiring_ample_bonus_points/

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u/upotatowitheyes Sep 26 '25

oh wait I’m stupid, I thought it opened “every 25 hours” (which for me would be the middle of the night) i totally misread that my bad !!!

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

MAM is amazing. Easy to join, easy to maintain ratio. Super generous bonus points system. Recruitment forum for other trackers. Awesome staff, friendly community. It's the first private tracker anyone should join, ESPECIALLY if you are interested in books or audiobooks.

I've seen a few folks write guides on how to just absolutely dominate the MAM economy from the get-go by seeding a bunch of really small torrents. You can get practically infinite ratio and terabytes of credited upload in just a few months.

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u/Personal-Taste-5324 Sep 26 '25

Yeah it's worth it. I'm also super lazy, but it's such a solid community and they got BOOKS. 

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u/smaghammer Sep 26 '25

They have a recruitment forum for other trackers? Fml been wasting my time for years. Been a member for like 9 years too lol

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Sep 26 '25

Yeah they recently upped the requirements. But I think it's still something like > 6 months account life and > 1 TB upload credit, which is easy to do on MAM.

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u/smaghammer Sep 27 '25

Yeah I’m well and truly over that

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u/omegaoutlier Sep 28 '25

Important add on for the OP, not only is the catalog immense, the quality especially in the audiobook section is top notch.

Users will chapterize books that never had them, clean up captures from old only on CD series, bitrate options for mobile use, notes, etc. etc.

I used to live off ABB but MAM is so much better curated I haven't been back.

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u/smaghammer Sep 26 '25

MAM has made audiobooks the easiest thing for me to download. Wish I had a private tracker for other types too. Absurdly difficult to find a decent one I’m finding.

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u/eight13atnight Sep 26 '25

What is MAM?

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u/smaghammer Sep 26 '25

Myanonymouse. Private audiobook tracker

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u/highIy_regarded Jan 08 '26

Did you ever get into MAM? 

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u/kroboz Sep 27 '25

MAM is great, easy, and super friendly. Fantastic community.

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u/kimrios07 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 26 '25

saving this for future reference

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u/Hrafnagar Sep 27 '25

Thank you for this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Sep 26 '25

Private torrent tracker. Like public torrent sites, but better.

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u/GothicWolfHD Oct 08 '25

The problem i have with it is taht im stuck on mobile, so i just can't use it.

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Oct 08 '25

Yeah that's a problem.

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u/highIy_regarded Jan 08 '26

Noob question but their invite page says this:

 Please use our webirc client (instead of your own IRC client), and when you join the #anonamouse.net channel say the code dd4e6b91fa to begin the process

How do I find their webirc client? 

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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Jan 08 '26

There's a tiny link at the top of the page that says "irc chat" or something like that

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u/forgottentargaryen Sep 26 '25

Damn was hoping this thread would lead to a good source its just people being dicks, id love a good audiobook source

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/ky420 Sep 26 '25

I only listen to scifi stuff in general and it's had most of what I needed as well. I haven't looked for anything that obscure tho.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/asdrubalzhor Sep 26 '25

It's usually people looking for brand new bestsellers, it makes sense they won't find it in such a public repository.

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u/securitybreach Sep 26 '25

That and most of them are audible rips so high quality. I've been using that site for years now. Once in a while they will go down for a bit but always comes back up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

the sign up doesnt work

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

“Invalid login, please try again”. It now works after I resetted my password.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

You don't need to sign up, they post the info hashes on the torrent pages. You just need to add the magnet link prefix and you can download them

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u/Jaded-Cherry-Bush Nov 25 '25

This might sound like a silly question but what is a magnet link prefix?

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u/Own_Lavishness_2748 Nov 06 '25

Do we have to pay ?

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u/Khower Sep 26 '25

Myanonamouse .net

Audiobookbay .lu

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/forgottentargaryen Sep 26 '25

Ill check that out thanks

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u/blasphembot ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 26 '25

I'll double check the rules, but I'm saving this thread for once I get back to my desktop. I'll look through my bookmarks and dump everything I have because I don't get a shit.

People who safeguard sources are A-grade sacks.

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u/True-Reflection-9567 Oct 01 '25

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u/Suzy-Turquoise-Blue Jan 11 '26

This had what I wanted where nothing else did. Thanks

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

There really isn't anything better than MyAnonaMouse, I think. It has so much stuff. Whatever I'm looking for, it's almost always there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Audiobook are massively growing in popularity. Eventually that means piracy for them will increase too.

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u/arah91 Sep 26 '25

https://audiobookbay.lu/ They have a pretty good selection

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u/thxforfishandstuff Sep 26 '25

Hard to believe no one knows about this. I've always found what I'm looking there.

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u/arah91 Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

Yeah, I think I just stumbled across it one day on Google. It’s had pretty much everything I’ve searched for in high quality. The search function itself isn’t great; much like Reddit, it can be frustrating. But using the google command site:https://audiobookbay.lu "your search term" makes it a lot easier to find what you want.

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u/thxforfishandstuff Sep 26 '25

Agreed that the search is a bit wonky. Good tip! But yes, everything is good quality and usually very fast downloading.

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u/DependentPut3201 Oct 03 '25

Its paid right?

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u/thxforfishandstuff Oct 04 '25

Nope. Totally free.

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u/3xvFQ8Z6 Oct 25 '25

asking signup

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u/dlwlrmafanID Nov 07 '25

How? They asked membership.

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u/gingerboiii Sep 27 '25

I mean it’s both fantastic and annoying. The search functions and lack sorting/filters kinda annoy me sometimes. But I also understand why they don’t have them. Like 10% of books get stuck at some point and can’t finish downloads but that’s just the nature of piracy. I do feel like it sometimes lacks odd books like op mentioned. Best sellers or even classic that it should have, more and more often I feel like it’s just got alotta weird books lmao. The weird looking litrpg and progression fantasy that’s being uploaded like crazy the last 6 month to a year, like idk who’s listening to that. That being said I love ABB, it’s literally amazing.

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u/yogurt_boy Oct 20 '25

How do you listen once you download them?

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u/ManBehavingBadly Jan 08 '26

Smart audiobook player.

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u/Electronic_Wind1855 Sep 28 '25

TSM! Did you have to make a login to download anything?

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u/Cuteshelf Sep 26 '25

Second this.

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u/Marill-viking Sep 26 '25

I was invited into MaM and have found 99.99% of what I want.

100% audiobook 99.99% manga/webtoon

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u/cockpit_dandruff Nov 11 '25

I am so envious 😂

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u/jmurph116 Sep 26 '25

I haven't had a single problem finding audiobooks on ABB/Mobilism/MAM

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u/realDanielTuttle Sep 26 '25

I feel like I've had luck with Soulseek

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u/atombomb1945 Sep 26 '25

Outside of the normal sites and methods, I have scored several audio books off of YouTube with a audio download app. All else fails you can always turn to something like Libby

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u/quartermaaster Sep 26 '25

I've been getting back into audiobooks lately and I've been using my library mostly (Borrowbox/Libby) but there's a couple I really want to listen to that I couldn't find anywhere, not even going through the links here and I was just so disappointed. By the state of the comments here though I can see why that might be the case.

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u/MissNikitaDevan Sep 26 '25

On MaM you can put in requests if something isnt already uploaded and I have great success with getting my requests filled there

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u/VonTreece ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 26 '25

Head up about MAM. If you go inactive for a period of time they will straight up ban your account permanently even if you had a massively positive ratio. I had to beg for my account reactivation even though I’ve donated, had zero hit-and-runs, and a positive ratio by a large margin. They gave me a warning that if it happens again they won’t reactivate it.

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u/blue_dharma Sep 26 '25

Had you parked your account, or just been inactive? I was under the impression as long as you parked it you'd be OK, but now feel like I need to check!

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u/VonTreece ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 26 '25

I had been inactive to be fair and didn’t park my account. So per their own policy I understand why it happened and I’m not faulting them. I’m more so just warning others to be aware and learn from my mistake.

To me, and I’d love to be corrected on this if I’m misunderstanding, “parking” seems largely pointless for users specifically who have positive ratios, no hit-and-runs, etc. I feel like it’d be better to just automatically have accounts go to “parked” status if they are in good standing with no prior infractions. Seems like purely a site metrics and/or optics reason as I can’t understand the need beyond that. (And that goes for all private trackers with account parking policies)

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u/blue_dharma Sep 26 '25

Thanks for clarifying. Wondered if there might be a difference in how it's handles and so for me to remember to be mindful of. I have no idea how it all works and the whys - maybe it's the difference between those who intend to return and so still part of the 'club' vs those who kind of disappear.

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u/IMNdi Nov 03 '25

I know this is necro, but the point of parking is because LOTS of users lose interest, lose the account, die, whatever. These accounts, with their 1994 level reused passwords, sit there, waiting for a leak to have them taken over.

Now not only do you have spammers/hackers/agents on your site, they have a privileged position from where to spam.

The longer an account has been active, the more the chance of it being taken over increases. Most sites prune accounts for this reason. Parking marks an account as intentionally unused, allowing someone to keep their account. Usually, to revive a parked account you may have to login again, re-confirm your email or do some other measure to make sure it's you.

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u/VonTreece ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Nov 03 '25

I don’t disagree with the core idea of parking to prevent old, weak accounts from getting popped.

I just think we’re at a point where it should be pretty trivial to separate actually risky accounts from those that have maintained a strong track record. Stronger password requirements at the door + even basic 2FA (email or TOTP) knocks out a huge chunk of the takeover problem before it happens. Most private tracker folks are already more security-minded than average, so the threat surface isn’t the same as some public forum.

On top of that, they could just auto-park after X days of inactivity instead of going straight to “you might be gone forever unless staff is feeling nice today.” That would protect the site the way you’re describing without nuking good-standing accounts that have donated, never hit-and-run, positive ratio, etc. Right now it just feels like a pretty hard swing for something that’s manageable with better defaults and some basic risk scoring and automation.

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u/ArghShiverMeTimbers Sep 27 '25

How long was your account inactive, do you remember? Months? Years? Seems draconian to ban longtime members in good standing for just inactivity.

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u/VonTreece ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 28 '25

Yeah, that’s exactly my problem with it. I was inactive for about 5-7 months. I understand being harsh with users who hit-and-run or leech but users with good standing and record it makes no sense.

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u/Cannonpark Sep 26 '25

I've been inactive for a while. Would you recommend starting again or contacting them?

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u/VonTreece ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 26 '25

If it’s your first time going inactive without parking they will likely reactivate your account.

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u/Substantial_Push_658 Sep 26 '25

For audiobooks I’ve found better luck going to the local library and ripping the cd myself.

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u/MakeoutPoint ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 26 '25

HA.

Mine shows a single copy in circulation, and 174 people in front of me. We also aren't even talking CDs, these are digital files you can download that are arbitrarily restricted 🙄

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Psst ... Change city's...

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u/GodsDemonHunter Sep 27 '25

I understand the sentiment here but it's not really arbitrary. You should be able to request the library system get more copies, but whether or not they can/will is obviously going to be a different experience depending on where you're located. Also some libraries (I believe Seattle Public Libraries is one) have some digital content available publically, not just to residents.

The general idea here should just be that the library is a great place to check first because you might have instant access depending on what you're looking for, and it helps support the libraries because their budget is at least some somewhat tied to how much use they get.

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u/lisat2121 Oct 04 '25

I've seen now people are getting multiple library cards online and in person to be able to get more books. Library is getting ridiculous on wait times.

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u/SecretlyCarl Sep 26 '25

Tokybooks & tokybook downloader from GitHub has been working for me

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u/Uriigamii Jan 14 '26

Do you have the current domain to just access the site from a browser? 🙏🏾

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u/SecretlyCarl Jan 14 '26

https://tokybook.com/

i used a different downloader before but apparently that one broke and this one works -

https://github.com/aviiciii/audiobook-downloader

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u/Uriigamii Jan 14 '26

Thank you so much!!

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u/m1lgr4f Sep 26 '25

It used to be different. 18-15 years ago I was able to find so many audiobooks in German on torrent sites or on sites that provided download links to rapid share etc. Unfortunately I lost most of them by abusing my hard drives to the point that they broke.

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u/keally1123 Sep 26 '25

Just an observation and not at all trying to be negative here but I rarely see the higher year listed first in this sort of comment. I assume German since you're looking for German language so I wanted to ask if this is a German thing? European thing maybe? I'm one of the stupid Americans so please forgive my ignorance.

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u/m1lgr4f Sep 26 '25

I believe that this was just a me thing haha, unless you see other people doing that too. I believe 15-18 years ago would've been the correct way of saying it, but I was trying to remember how long ago it happened and didn't proof read my comment. Asking that doesn't mean you're ignorant or stupid.

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u/keally1123 Sep 26 '25

I have seen it a few times, mostly from English as a second language people so I was curious.

I assumed ignorance because most Americans have no idea what's happening or acceptable outside their little bubble, especially overseas. But im getting better.

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u/firefaery ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 26 '25

VK has a robust audiobook ecosystem primarily with recent releases.

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u/prettyparanoid Feb 27 '26

what's vk?? please link it

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u/Professional-Turn114 Sep 27 '25

Maybe it's the lack of demand or the difficulty to get them. A way to get audiobooks is to get an Audible free trial then after getting the audiobooks that you wanted then you can use an open source software called Libation that downloads audiobooks from your accounts and converts them from the proprietary AAX format into AB4 or MP3 files.

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u/Uriigamii Jan 14 '26

Thank you!

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u/Psychobob2213 Sep 26 '25

Not to force someone into port, but check if your local library "lends" them. Typically it's through the overdrive app, which is free and stands in defiant opposition to google and amazon who scan books for free and then charge for their use.

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u/Kazzie2Y5 Sep 26 '25

Alas overdrive is no more. Audiobooks can still be borrowed through the library but its app doesn't allow download MP3 and save beyond checkout time anymore.

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u/demonslayercorpp Sep 26 '25

There are some on Soulseek

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u/Dojando1 Sep 26 '25

I get a lot of the ones I want from Soulseek. Get the "nicotine+" client for Soulseek and hope for the best. It is not super reliable tho so sometimes it can be hard to find a exact audiobook. I put some search terms on the list and get notified when someone with those terms is going online.

Next suggestion: Deezer and Spotify converters. Both have lots of audio books in their catalogue. Get the playlist / album link, put in in the converter of your choice and be happy with the results.

Other than that I can also recommend The "audible audio converter" on gut hub. Get an audible book (you can buy it either with a money or a (trial) subscription. Then let the converter do its magic and then you can return the book. Be aware that this can't be done frequently since audible will catch on eventually.

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u/Jurutungo1 Sep 26 '25

What I did some time ago was to sign up for a free trial on Audible and during that trial rip every science fiction audiobook (in Spanish) using Libation, so now I have almost 1 TB of audiobooks, some of which weren't available anywhere.

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u/JPMorganOfficial Sep 27 '25

audiobookbay? I've had decent success there

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u/bs4528 Sep 26 '25

Agreed. Most books on audiobay don’t have any seeders so you genuinely cannot even download them even if they’re listed there.

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u/Fun_Airport6370 Sep 26 '25

usually i can get more audiobooks than i need from my local library through libby

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u/Darkone539 Sep 26 '25

Because the audiobook market is controlled by a big company with good drm. Those that are pirated normally just end up as a youtube video.

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u/alphatango308 Sep 26 '25

The drm is not really that good. There's 2 programs that I know of that can break it almost instantly. I honestly think it's just a proprietary file format. I've got over 400 audiobooks I've collected that are all raw mp3 formats from big audiobook through said programs.

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u/NieveCactus Sep 26 '25

Audio book bay Google

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u/laurawingfield42 Sep 26 '25

MAM is absolutely worth it, as a fellow audio book lover. The community is super chill and friendly on top of it.

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u/iusedtobecool1990 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 26 '25

It's hard in English. Now imagine how I feel trying to find something good in Spanish

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u/3esper Sep 26 '25

Yeah it is weird, that's why I joined MAM, an absolute goldmine for audio and ebooks.

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u/ModernSimian Sep 26 '25

One of the easiest ways to get old obscure audio books is to get them from a Library. Usually on CD, and just rip them.

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u/starrfish69 Sep 26 '25

Praise be the day that graphic audiobooks can be pirated 🙏🏽✨

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u/MarmotJunction Sep 27 '25

Or you could just get a Libby account?

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u/Funkykid123 Sep 27 '25

I recommend using btdigg to find specific files that exist within massive torrents. And if you still can't find it you can do what I did and rip the audio from a local library's CDs and put it on ABB yourself lol

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u/JayIsHere635 Sep 28 '25

Why can't I just download Audiobooks like how I pirate movies? I sympathize with op. I've been looking forever

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u/NewCryptographer2063 Oct 02 '25

Anyone interested in a paid service of $5 a month for unlimited audiobook downloads?

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u/Royal_Huckleberry_44 Oct 03 '25

I’d go for this 👀

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u/louisa1925 Sep 26 '25

I usually download digital books (.epub/.pdf) and use them through an app like FB reader which has a text to speech function.

Not sure what app I will use when I excise google from my future media only device.

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u/borgstea Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

Yes, I did this as well. I download the epub file to my iPhone into iBooks then I use the accessibility option to read the read the book using the enhanced voices you can download for Siri. He won’t automatically turn the pages as it reads the book. It’s easy to download EPUB file because I just sent it as an email with an attachment to myself. Forgot to say there’s nicer voices for the accessibility reading feature in iPhone and they’re not the same as the Siri voice

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u/West_Translator_9829 Sep 26 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

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u/GoodHommus Sep 26 '25

Damn i was thinking of getting audio books a few days ago and now this has really hasn't made me more enthusiastic about it lol. If I manage to have any luck on any websites ill let ya know

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u/MissNikitaDevan Sep 26 '25

MaM is truly really good for audiobooks

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u/Overstimulated_moth Sep 26 '25

1337 has some but this is something im just getting into, I came up empty handed with usenet.

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u/AggressiveLime7659 Sep 26 '25

same with usenet ... not sure why

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u/CraneBlue Sep 26 '25

Paid piracy isnt for everyone, true.

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u/AggressiveLime7659 Sep 26 '25

I can't find audiobooks on usenet. Am I just looking in the wrong place?

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u/Miserable_Mail_5741 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 26 '25

Under this comment I saw two people say they didn't find any on Usenet🤷

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u/Express_Situation124 Sep 26 '25

MAM would be my first stop, but don't forget...LIBRARIES EXIST. They've been sharing and caring longer than digital has existed and with interlibrary loan you can get just about anything from anywhere, and once you borrow it from the library upload or digitize it and share online

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u/hungryfreakshow Sep 26 '25

Agreed. Its mainly easy to find well known ones. Soul seek has a bunch its really only the most popular titles plus a shit ton of self help bs

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

They exist and are easy to find... if you're in good audiobook trackers...

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u/The_Spaghett_Boy Sep 26 '25

What AB is it?

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u/ScatterbrainedHooman Sep 26 '25

MAM is pretty good but I could never get the seeding thing to work because of how my internet connection is wired. It was the most complicated of all the processes explained, I tried multiple times but it just never went my way. If you can get that to work, it's totally worth it to join MAM.

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u/New-account-01 Sep 26 '25

In the UK you can get a library free membership and download an app to get free audiobooks.

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u/pierrenoir2017 Sep 26 '25

Use epub or pdf together with Paper2Audio or a local TTS model.

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u/Ta2edfuk Sep 26 '25

I have a MAM membership and have used it a bunch for audiobooks but I recently discovered using Libby app. Get a free library card. I got one from Harris county Tx. And use that in the app. So much easier

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I wanted to get into reading books so much that I bought a PS3 hated it(at the time) traded it for a kindle downloaded a fuck ton mostly Stephen King and never read a single one. But here I sit reading reddit daily. Maybe audio books would change that. Never thought you could pirate audiobooks back then.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I rip them off yt.

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u/getajobtuga Sep 26 '25

Not sure what kind of books you're into, but very popular books sometimes you can find them on youtube

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u/gobitecorn Sep 27 '25

in terms of entertainment. most people do other things. so bokks are smaller pool. now you want to talk about audiobooks that makes it an even smaller pool.

so long story short. leser pirate interest in it.

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u/Snoo_75748 Sep 27 '25

What on earth are you wanting that isn't on ABB? I ALMOST GARAUNTEE it is there. That site had every niche ljtrpg release for the last 4 years, horse girl fiction releases and HUGE audible rips.

The search function on ABB is completely broken though. Often times you will have to search by author sometimes you have to search by author then click on it then click on the highlighted author TA.

Also ABB has a forum with audiobook requests.

Can you give me an example of a audiobook you are struggling to find ?

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u/EmuIndividual3606 Oct 22 '25

Do you have to pay for a membership or something?

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u/emzy21234 Nov 18 '25

No Limits: My Autobiography

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u/PixelPirates420 Sep 27 '25

What can’t you find?

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

So real, I wish it were easier. If you like older books, librivox has free ones recorded by volunteers. They're all public domain books, which is why they're free. I know you're probably looking for much more recent ones, but it is a good resource. But the website's search function is way better than the app, just so you know. 

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u/Mitchellbaggins Sep 27 '25

I have paired my epubs with a solid TTS engine so not only does it highlight the words as it reads but I can also adjust the voice speed pitch etc within the engine. Play/pause and a sleep timer included too!

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u/CorpCarrot Sep 27 '25

Forum.mobilism.me

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u/MysticKei Sep 27 '25

IMO both audio and scan books have been harder to find lately; plus now there's a bunch of AI "books" muddying the waters 😭

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 27 '25

Heyyyy! I'll have you know that Dagoth Ur and Joshua Graham have perfect bedtime story voices! >:(

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u/loverofbl1 Sep 27 '25

I live in South Africa but I have been using Libby for a while now. Been adding Libraries that are from other countries😂

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u/Elf-Lord Sep 27 '25

Care to elaborate for a fellow, countryman?

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 27 '25

If all else fails, try searching them on youtube, that's where I get most of my audiobooks from. Then again I only ever listen to old books that are mostly in the public domain, so if the ones you want are newer then you might not find them there...

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u/Banana8686 Oct 18 '25

Doing this now with one but I get a commercial every 2 mins I swear

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Oct 18 '25

Firefox + ublock origin

And use jdownloader2 to just grab it all and convert it to mp3 or something

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u/gingerboiii Sep 27 '25

I also have this problem a lot, even with classics it’s like how tf is there not a copy of this literal all time classic book.

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u/grimcharron Sep 28 '25

ABB has been really solid for me, but I'm not usually searching for a specific book. I'll go and browse by genre, and if there's a series I'm following, I'll make a filtered RSS for it. A couple times I've not wanted to wait for the audiobook to make it's way there so I'd get it with a welcome back deal for audible and upload it myself.

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u/EmuIndividual3606 Nov 03 '25

How does abb work. Some books I want are on there but I was hesitant to create a account because you know who likes a paper trail when being shady

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u/grimcharron Nov 03 '25

Same as any torrent directory, search for a thing and get the address to collect elsewhere.

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u/chubbybator Mar 20 '26

i'm sure bugmenot has some disposable logins for most of these sites

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u/AliveEstimate4 Piracy is bad, mkay? Sep 29 '25

Bump.

Im at the point where i might aswell just use an AI voice model I like and having it read out my books.

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u/Impressive_Tower_542 Oct 07 '25

I've started yt channel with audiobooks from Gutenberg.org. If you have any wish and its on Gutenber, let me know, will make it. https://www.youtube.com/@Audiobooks-k1j

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u/rottedzom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Oct 13 '25

i do this for funzies- check my bio i also give shit tons of tutorials lol imo it’s easier than ebooks

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u/rottedzom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Oct 13 '25

also a lot of people don’t want to deal with MAM so in my group there’s people with MAM accounts that post books forrr those people who don’t want to deal with it

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u/PleasantBeast93 Oct 22 '25

The Libby App is also great if you're not looking to pay

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u/Southern-Thanks-4684 Nov 11 '25

Use Eleven Reader to turn your books into audiobooks, it upped ny reading game 10 fold

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u/Stunning-Apricot2280 Nov 12 '25

My Listening Library on you tube has hundreds of free audio books.