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Robert Mader

Just played around with audiobooks on my with . There doesn't seem to be a nice Audible client atm., even though it might be possible to make one. Then I learned about librivox.org/ which has several thousands Public Domain audiobooks - awesome!

So first I tried Cozy - pretty nice app but it requires downloading things first. Then I figured that the page also has RSS feeds - just like most podcasts. So I tried the Podcasts app:

A screenshot of the Podcasts app on a mobile phone, showing an audiobook as podcast channel.
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Robert Mader

Using Podcasts with audiobooks as podcast "show" seems to work pretty well and I wonder now if the search/discovery feature and RSS support could somehow be ported and adapted to Cozy.

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Robert Mader

P.S.: regarding discovery / browsing available audiobooks: maybe Shortwave is the better example here.

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Danny Garside

@rmader #DRMFree audiobooks might be substantially easier - have you tried libro.fm ?

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Robert Mader

@da5nsy Good point, focussing on platforms certainly makes more sense. Haven't checked them yet - I hope they provide some kind of default (RSS based?) APIs, similar to how paid substack subscriptions work nicely with the Podcasts app already.

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Rasheed Ahmed

@rmader @da5nsy You can also liberate your Audible audiobooks using #Libation!

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zilti

@rmader I can also recommend the Kasts app

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