The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

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  • Shameless plug - if you download lots of audiobooks and need help organizing them and figuring out which to listen to next, check out Audiobook Locker: https://gitlab.com/fonner/audiobook-locker. It's a desktop app (built with Tauri) that scans your audiobook folder and lets you sort, search and tag your audiobooks.

  • web

    The source code for the Standard Ebooks website. (by standardebooks)

  • Standard Ebooks has the ability to filter books bu reading level.

    That seems much better for people trying to learn English.

    https://standardebooks.org/

    They carefully curate and copy-edit their books, and go for quality over quantity. I think that is probably the right choice. We already have free access to an effectively infinite amount of mediocre content on the internet.

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  • epub_to_audiobook

    EPUB to audiobook converter, optimized for Audiobookshelf

  • Exactly the same scene as I use in my daily life. It feels great to have an audiobook version of any e-book. You don’t have to wait/look for any real person to complete their audio work. I have used this tool [1] to convert and listen to many books.

    1. https://github.com/p0n1/epub_to_audiobook EPUB to audiobook converter with Azure TTS, optimized for Audiobookshelf.

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