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It would be a shame not to shamelessly plug author (and anti-DRM activist) Cory Doctorow here. He has some really fun science fiction, and sells his audio books DRM-free through various sources.
Shamelessly, because lots of his protagonists are self-hosters of various types.
I use Downpour for Audiobooks. It is similar to Audible where audiobooks can be purchased individually, or there is a subscription that provides credits to purchase audiobooks. The audiobooks are drm-free and can be downloaded. I have not found a way to automate the download and transfer to my Audiobookshelf server, but I don’t mind doing it manually considering I average around two or three audiobooks a month.
Readarr and MaM.
Audible + OpenAudible. OpenAudible does "stuff" and you end up with audio files, that you can listen on most devices. Don't know and care how they do this. Its not free but so is Audible.
When you have an active Audible subscription, you also have access to free Audiobooks. You can download and convert them too. But be aware, that Audible is rate limited. Had downloaded a ton of free audiobooks and after a short limit (maybe 1 hour), I got a long limit for around 24 hours. But I still use Audible. I just have it as a backup and this way I can give my family access to the books I have. But so far my mother only listen to the ones I got for free. I like Science Fiction a lot but my mother not.
A college who I recommended Audiobookshelf, has a subscription from a German only site (Thalia), where apparently the Audiobooks can be downloaded as MP3s. So far I prefer Audible, even with DRM, just because the availability. Not all books I listen to, are available on that site or much later.
I found a free and foss alternative to OpenAudible that seems to work fine: https://github.com/audiamus/BookLibConnect
There's a sister project to convert the aax (m4b) files, but I found that to be unnecessary.
Another alternative is Libation , I've been using that to archive my and my partners audible accounts. Only issue I've run into is having the license denied when trying to back up a book.
I use audible, then download with audible-cli and decrypt with ffmpeg.
I download them either from Youtube or from the podcasts' RSS feeds.
Sadly Audible and removing DRM with ffmpeg.
Libro.FM seems to be an honorable website to purchase DRM free audiobooks. They'll send money from your purchase to your local bookstore of choice.
I find them online and use javascript to rip them into a text file and use @Voice premium on android to read/listen to the text files. I got the premium @Voice because I didn't realize how much of a staple having an app that can read most types of files was going to be.
I use annas archive for ebooks but I organize those with calibre, not audiobookshelf because I have a somewhat peculiar organization scheme that relies on calibres custom columns and export feature.
My audiobooks I get from abtorrents but I heard great things about myanonamouse
I hear Anna's Archives is great for ebooks. I don't do audiobooks, and can't stand podcasts, but it sounds like a lot of good suggestions were made for those already.
I find it on a truck that could find in my comment history.