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Audio books? is Audioserve still the bee's knees? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking into self hosting for this and this seems to be the top answer on the googles but, then again, the googles are shit now so i figured id ask you folk.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not crazy into stats (I don't track books when I re-read them, though goodreads supports that), but audible's "you read 30k minutes last year" was definitely kind of cool. (The fact that it took me a full 30 minutes to add the new books I've read across 5 apps since last time I bothered putting stuff on goodreads? Not so much.)

My problem is I have a whole stack of different apps to fill out my listening, so Audible's numbers are 90% the 1 author I actually bought from them outright, then there's two different library apps, and a subscription to ~~Scribd~~ Everand for a bunch of my reading, plus actual files in a different app, so none of it really means anything, and not everyone provides it so I can't even compare.

It's too bad the iOS app is stuck behind test flight, but it looks like it supports ebooks, too, so I think I might try it on my Android readers and see how it manages for those. I desperately need a better system for those than "just go find the file and use boox drop when I feel like it".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the main dev classes their app(s) as beta /not complete, so that's why it's behind test flight. They explained their reasoning behind it on the issue tracker, whether we agree or not it's their show.

For eBooks let me know how you go. I have not used that feature set yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Eh, it is what it is. I could sideload if I really wanted to.

After more effort than it should have taken (for some reason my PIA app or Android was bouncing local connections even with the settings to allow it enabled) ebooks do work. Probably not well enough for me to actually use it, though. It only turns pages with swipes and doesn't really give any ways to do formatting. I'm surprised I've seen it suggested by people for ebooks with how limited it is. (I fully understand that it's not the priority development-wise).

But at least I finally set up docker, which I've meant to do forever.