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Kobo Books mentions (38)

• Buying a Clara HD in 2023?

  If I were in your position I would spend the extra and get the 2e, if for no other reason than iirc, it has an audiobook feature. The clara2e is only $139 on kobo.com right now. Source: 5 months ago

• Tolino Vision 6 eManga

  Im buying my manga from kobo (kobo.com). Theyre usually drm protected, but its incredibly easy to remove it. After doing so you get a standard epub file which you can read on basically any ereader, including yours. Source: 10 months ago

• How do you keep up with LNs that have dozens of volumes? Is it even possible to keep track and remember what happen in each?

  LNs are short. If they look like they're as long as your typical Western novel, it's only because of the font size or thickness of paper used. You'll probably find similarly thin books in the YA section of a bookstore, but most Western books are longer. And while Harry Potter books start out shorter, in general, they absolutely dwarf the size of the typical LN, and I don't know if there are even any LNs which are... Source: 10 months ago

• Some kobo.com purchased books not showing up on Kobo Clara HD

  I purchased some ebooks and I can see them at kobo.com but not all of them show up on my Kobo Clara HD reader. Everything is up-to-date and synced. Source: 11 months ago

• Is piracy my only option?

  I usually buy from either ebooks.com or kobo.com (sometimes Google Play). They have their own Android apps where you can read your purchases without removing the DRM. On Boox, I've only ever tried the ebooks.com app, but I've found it to have a very limited feature set, so I prefer Pocketbook. By the way, ebooks.com sells DRM-free ebooks whenever the publisher allows it. I usually don't buy Kindle books, because... Source: 11 months ago

LibriVox mentions (228)

• Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?

  This reminds me that I've always wanted to just record my own versions of audiobook. For years now there's been a site where volunteers are creating free, public domain audiobooks... https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• WhisperSpeech – An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper

  Thank you. Is the Polish collection also a volunteer effort? Link to librivox for others: https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Old git here, if I narrate an old free book where is a good place to upload it?

  Go to Librivox- plenty of opportunities there and they need people like you. Source: 5 months ago

• Could I read books for authors to publish audiobooks for free?

  Check out Librivox you might enjoy doing it. Source: 5 months ago

• What do you do while you are quilting?

  Just FYI for everyone, Librivox is a project to make free, public-domain audiobooks of out-of-copyright books! Source: 5 months ago