Libro.fm VS MyNoise

Hi! My kids were just listening to the first chapter of A Christmas Carol offered on 24 Days of Yoto. Are they seriously not offering the rest of this as a digital download? Please tell me I'm missing it. The processing/shipping time of physical cards is not awesome to my city (like weeks) so for seasonal things like this it doesn't make sense for us unless I plan way ahead. I can't imagine they would miss... Source: 5 months ago

Hello all, does anyone know of a platform specifically made to cater to schools? I think Audible used to have one, but it's either discontinued entirely, or no longer available in Europe. I've found a couple made within educational systems (e.g. UK system) but not available to other countries. The closest I've come so far is libro.fm for business - waiting to hear back from them to see if it's suitable. I'm truly... Source: 6 months ago

Big stores that sell DRM-free e-books: - https://www.ebooks.com/en-uk/drm-free/ - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ Audiobooks: - https://libro.fm/ - https://www.downpour.com/ Other lists and tips: - https://libreture.com/bookshops/ - https://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/where-to-get-ebooks/ (Here in Norway we've so far been lucky, I've yet to see e-books with DRM. There's ebok.no which does watermarks, but... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Whenever I buy something, I start by trying to find a DRM-free version. ebooks.com has a whole section devoted to this (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/) and https://libro.fm exclusively sells DRM-free. Failing that, I mostly get things from my local library (via Libby). Conveniently, those all have weak DRM, so one could still build a personal library that way. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

A slight quibble: > They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon's monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library. While it's true that your purchases are tied to your Amazon account, they are not tied to your audible subscription (if you have one). That's a nice touch. Even better, the DRM is trivially easy to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I cannot speak higher of https://mynoise.net/ It is so amazing for pink noise and all the other noises. I basically always have a tab with this up. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I use https://mynoise.net/ or sometimes a podcast, usually something like https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ (lol). Source: 5 months ago

I use http://mynoise.net - there's a phone app too. Source: 6 months ago

For more routine work that isn't as deep but is still cognitively demanding, I usually stay at my desk and put on a post-rock playlist and https://mynoise.net/ on top of it (I like Irish coast), so loud that any other noise gets blocked out. I put a sign up saying not to disturb me. Source: 6 months ago

Spotify needs to license https://mynoise.net and include their dozens of soundscapes into the Spotify client. The captured audio soundscapes are high quality, engineered, mixable audio from many relaxing and peaceful natural and artificial environments. Tossing a few million dollars towards the MyNoise people for something that's currently donor-ware would be amazing for the creators as well as opening up the... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago