Libro.fm VS The Eye

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

- https://pile.eleuther.ai/ (data hosted by https://the-eye.eu/, where it's not too hard to find pirated, copyrighted books, e.g. https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Have you considered asking https://the-eye.eu/ or archive.org to host? Jason Scott on Twitter can probably connect you. Or ask his Archive Team via IRC? Source: 10 months ago

Doesnt matter, they cant take down the links to the-eye.eu Stable Diffusion specifically:. Source: 11 months ago

The Eye isn't dead, they just removed their rom collections and focused on archiving other stuff. Source: about 1 year ago

Hey, I made the thread on /r/DataHoarder back then and got the help there to download all VODs. The website was https://the-eye.eu but I don't think they host the Reckful Vods anymore. I downloaded everything (about 10TB) back then and have it stored on an external hard drive. If you can provide the storage, I can upload with 40mbits, so everything would take a while and specific things first would help. Source: about 1 year ago