openbooks VS audiobookshelf

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.

For anyone who's game to run another service for audiobooks, I've found Audiobookshelf to be pretty good: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

A spotlight on AudioBookshelf, an audiobook and podcast streaming server

The basics are same across most any container, you probably need to map some network ports, and map some storage paths, and then you are pretty good to go. There can be more than that, but those are kind of the minimums. For instance, the example compose file for audiobookshelf does just that, maps a port, and some storage and that's about it.

linky: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf#readme (JS; GPLv3) and they have their own app, too: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app#readme (Capacitor GPLv3)

Move away as in find another audiobook vendor? Or simply retain access to your existing collection?

Audiobooks from Audible can be downloaded via the UI. They will have DRM, but it's possible to remove.

If you have audiobook files without DRM you can listen to them via any app that plays audio, but there's also at least one OSS project that aims to fill audiobook UI niche [1].

[1]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

Using Audiobookshelf (https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf) and hosing my own podcast with an rss feed. It works just perfect in other podcast apps but in Pocket Casts, that used to work, I can't no longer see new episodes starting from about a week ago. I have never been able to stream the episodes either, just download and listen, this also works in iOS Podcaster app.