audible-activator VS openbooks

Both apps require you to have audiobooks as files and download them in an accessible format. If you have audible audiobooks, you need to convert those to an open format first using something like AAX2MP3 + audible-activator

i convert ALL my audible files to M4B using ffmpeg. using this command line: "ffmpeg -activation_bytes xxx -i ab.aax -vn -c:a copy output.m4a", where xxx is your audible auth code. you can get your auth code by using https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator. i download the aax files on my pc from the audible website. work great every time.

I would encourage users not to use OpenAudible as they tend to engage in shady practices. They've stolen code from the original inAudible project and then released it as a closed-source commercial project. Users have complained about losing access to OpenAudible after upgrading: OpenAudible v3.3 upgrade warning/alert

You can use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator, which is what OpenAudible supposedly stole their code from. And to convert the aax files you can use https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3.

It worth noting the OpenAudible folks “stole” the IP from the open source project audible-activator and have used it in their paid software.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator https://sourceforge.net/projects/aaxtomp3/

inaudible.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator

But had success using:

There are already some very good ebooks solutions out there so there's really no need. Calibre for the backend and database management, Calibre-Web for the front end, and Openbooks for content.

OpenBooks link

OpenBooks - Download books from IRC Highway

I’ve got a feeling this if the wrong sub for this kind of request. However, in the mood of selfhosted, here is an app you can host to help you find books you might want.

I love openbooks by evan-buss. I want a version of that for audio books or at least a way to turn those PDF book into audio book with an actual human voice not the robot voice. Does anyone know if there is anything out there like that?

Some things don't have user controls or auth built in that I do share and for that I use cloudflare (openbooks is one such example).

OpenBooks https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks That's the one I use for individual books. Easy to use.

There are also things like the IRC Highway that allow you to search for books and download them using IRC (https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks is a friendly UI for using this). You can also check subreddits like r/opendirectories which might have books in PDF format etc.