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Ebooks and audiobooks? (lemm.ee)
submitted 16 hours ago by teardownthewalls@lemm.ee to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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Any good suggestions for alternatives to Kindle and Audible? I'm looking at storytel, tolino, libro.fm, and also places like Casa del Libro, wondering if anyone's used them and if they're good?

Or another service?

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[โ€“] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There are stores in many European countries that sell DRM-free e-books in local languages. They might use the term watermarked instead of DRM-free. See if you can find one in your country. Because they are DRM-free, you can use any device to read them.

Many libraries also lets you rent audiobooks and e-books. Many European libraries have moved to using Readium LCP DRM for e-books. You will probably have to use their own app to read them, which means you can't use e-readers, such as Kobo to read them.

[โ€“] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is worth looking into anyway. One of the things that attracts me to Storytel is the "unlimited" verbiage, i.e. not having to buy each book individually. Nevertheless you're limited by what they have in their collection. I guess it's a little extra effort to use a DRM free service and side load them to a device, but the advantages are obvious in terms of the actual ownership of the content.

[โ€“] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

Also subscription services typically pay the actual authors only pennies. If you want to support the authors, buy the books or use libraries.