Over the last year or so, Overdrive has been sunsetting their clients and pushing people to use the Libby web app leaving folks with older mp3 players, people who do a lot of offline listening, and people who just don’t like the Libby interface without a way to listen. I wrote a Firefox extension that lets you download the mp3s just like the old desktop clients used to do and it even will optionally parse the chapters for you. Hope someone finds it useful!

https://github.com/bookbonobo/libby-download-extension

Elder Race (4.14 : 12,718)

• author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
• narrator: John Lee
• goodreads
• audible

> In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself).

The Road to Roswell (3.91 : 1005)

• author: Connie Willis
• narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
• goodreads
• audible

> When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.

Light Bringer / Red Rising #6 (4.59 : 510)

• author: Connie Willis
• narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds
• goodreads
• audible

> The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

Implacable / Outlands #3 (4.51 : 388)

• author: Jack Campbell
• narrator: Christian Rummel
• goodreads
• audible

> As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.

Space Raideres / Space Raiders #1 (4.33 : 344)

• author: Ken Lozito
• narrator: Macleod Andrews
• goodreads
• audible

> After years of searching, Nathan Briggs is finally on the verge of making an incredible discovery. Unfortunately, the aliens have other plans. When Nathan stops a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim, he gets more than he bargained for and sets into motion events that will change his life forever. They told him he should’ve run away, and maybe they were right. Nathan is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Aliens are real. He has something they need, and they’re not the only ones hunting for it.

Does anyone know how follow requests work on #Lemmy and or #KBin? Reason I am asking is because I tried to subscribe to the @audiobooks community with this account and my request is still pending, but when I visit the community web URL, I can see all the posts and all the comments. If it’s open, I don’t understand why it’s asking me to put in a follow request rather than just a simple follow? #AskFedi

Joshua Gayou's Commune, Book 2 read by R.C. Bray contains a character called Gibbs. Hands down the best character I've heard brought to life by a Narrator.

Honestly I don't like the book that much. Firstly there's not much story, it's just the author rolling out their idea of a subsistence commune in a narrative, and I suspect the author and I have vastly different ideological views.

... but Gibbs made it worth listening to. An ex marine with a penchant for colourful language. Bray and Gayou really created something special.

This is a fan made audiobook and is as described. The immersive soundscape experience involves background sounds, chatter, music and more. It's genuinely a great peice of work especially for an enthusiast's effort. It may be removed by youtube soon, so here is an alternative link: https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497

>Dive into Harry’s second year at Hogwarts with an immersive soundscape audio experience of the story by J.K Rowling - for those who like the movies, games and books, and want a little of both! > > Narration, voices and edit by me. Music by John Williams, Jeremy Soule, J Scott Rakozy, Chuck E. Myers, Peter Murray and special thanks to Brigid Kaelin for her amazing musical saw orchestra! You can find her channel here - / @brigidkaelin

I'm posting here because I was surprised that these older audiobooks are available to stream. Of course, only people with the library can access them. But they must have already been part of the physical CD catalogue. I'm assuming they're on CDs because they're old and sound quality is definitely not modern.

So perhaps staff uploaded them to their cloud service.

Or 2022, doesn't matter

There used to be a number of posts in this community, one of which I replied to, but they have all disappeared. Why did this happen?

Starting the July listening list :-)

So in the past few months I’ve consumed three body trilogy, the bobiverse, expanse series, dogs of war (meh), quantum earth x2 (meh) and project hail Mary. I really enjoyed most of these, with dark Forest being my favourite read lately. What should be in my reading list next, as I get close to the end of the expanse books?

Set to release in August. I'm pretty excited to hear the story he wrote as motivation for his character's backstory in his own voice. I think DS9's streaming resurgance and rediscovery may have triggered renewed interest in the character and the book.

Time for a top 5 list :-)

I've had a few audiobooks over the years that have a mistake here and there, but at the moment I'm going through The Mahabharata - Volume 1 read by Gaurav Marwa and it's chock full of misread lines and words. Often he'll reread a sentence once or twice after making a mistake and it's all kept in the book.

Doesn't help that his reading is really dry. I'd honestly take some AI voice reading it.

Has anyone else come across some really poorly edited (or not edited) books that kept in mistakes?

I'd probably say mine is Stephen Pacey - his Joe Abercrombie books are just something else.

Jeff Hayes as well, narrator of Dungeon Crawler Carl, is such a delight to listen to.

Recreated reddit post [OC]

So, I had an issue with the new Smart Audiobook Player version when I installed it on a new(ish) (refurb) phone, and did manage to solve the problem but had already emailed the developer. His solution was so much more elegant than mine, so I'm posting it in case anyone else has the same problem. Also involved was the fact that I had loaded all my books to an external SD card. Here's his take on how to solve:

The problem is that the system's External Storage component can lose its normal access to files on Samsung phones with Android 13.

Please check the following: Go to Android Settings--Apps--menu--Special Access (or just search for 'Special Access' and choose Apps/Special Access from the results). Tap 'All Files Access'. Tap the three-dots menu and enable 'Show System Apps'. Ensure that the 'External Storage' app in the list is set to 'Allowed'.

I also posted, as a comment, what I actually did that worked, and at least one other person said it helped, so here's that:

>I tried all the things, emailed the developer, then tried one more thing and had to email right back, because I got it fixed! This is what I said: > >SOLVED: > >Well, I got lucky I guess that the very next thing I tried worked! > >*Settings > Apps > Options (three dots in upper right corner) > Reset app preferences * > >I'm a nut about turning off permissions, and thought that I might have somehow accidentally prevented SABP from being allowed to properly access the files even though it could find them and recognize them. I think that was the case! > >Sorry to have troubled you!

I believe in the fediverse!

I may have a couple of r|Audiobooks posts or comments that I will bring over before editing them into oblivion at reddit, and I strongly encourage everyone else to do the same.

I know that there are years of knowledge and opinion represented at reddit, but we can create that here, too, if we all bring something, make something, post something, and encourage others to do so as well. :)

Thank you, @audlock@lemmy.ml, for creating this space here!

I definitely noped out of a sci-fi audiobook (can't recall the title) a few minutes into one. And I hated the one Expanse book that was narrated by Erik Davis - it was like listening to a robot.

Have any of you listened to Peter F Hamilton's the Commonwealth Saga narrated by John Lee? I've really want to listen to these but I'm truley struggling listening to the narration. Only listened for about an hour. Maybe I just need to listen a bit longer to adjust...

I'm a little over halfway through Children of Memory and loving it, listening on Audiobookshelf (🥰)

Hi all! Coming here from reddit also. Am excited to see this community. Hope to see it grow :-)

I'm pretty sure even if you drop the membership you get to keep access to the books, but considering the amount of money I spent on them over the years I would really rather make sure. Anyone got the best option for saving you catalogue DRM free and offline?

Thanks!

I think Lemmy is going to see lots of users soon (including this community) getting folks coming from Reddit. I hope to see just as much engaging and interesting conversation here!

Sci-fi/fantasy listener here. Been listening to Clive Barker's Weaveworld and finding it pretty good :-) Are there any other writers similar to his far out imaginative writing style? Definitly let me know.