Like, this question is constantly asked in every book club thread. Why don't we start just making our own if they aren't available?
Do we need to make a discord or something for this? I think this is getting a decent reception.
I'm down to try doing that. I don't know if my voice works for it, but it would be a cool project to undertake.
Oh dude, I love just reading shit out loud. Would love to make some audiobooks. My voice has lost all of its baritone these past couple of years for some reason, I think it's because I've stopped smoking so much weed. But I'd love to get back in the groove.
Edit: I can read Twenty Nights of Turin with an exaggerated Italian accent.
I'd be interested in combining our efforts if they're interested? I thought of this yesterday as an addition to our current book club, so we have no real structure to speak of yet. People seem interested though.
Same. If there's a group effort on one of these I would be down. I read pretty gud I think
id be down but i just have a phone mic til i get back home in a couple months :debatebro-l:
This seems like a good idea, there's a lot of more obscure left-adjacent books that could use an audio version. And maybe this could team with the audiobook podcast feed for distribution?
If anyone has anything relatively short they want done, I'd try that. It's probably best to start with something manageable.
Any decent FOSS ones? I would love to run my Calibre library through a TTS engine if there are ones that sound decent.
Honestly, IDK. We might need to compile a list of books that don't have an easily available audiobook on the perusall (or otherwise) before we really sink our teeth in. Seems like Bullshit Jobs has an audiobook, so not that.
I'm about to torrent Bullshit Jobs and upload it to mega or something so that we have it. Don't spend your effort. Let's focus on something that hasn't been recorded yet. Are you able to help me identify the books on the perusall that don't have audiobooks readily available before we start?
Bullshit jobs doesn't have a free one though afaik...unless there's one on perusall?
There isn't, but we can probably find a way to torrent the ones that have one and make them available in a separate directory. Perusall has limits unfortunately.
https://serbianforum.org/threads/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-audiobook.778271/ Might be legit, download at your own risk.
Very sketchy indeed....I'll risk my pc and report back for other folks interested.
EDIT: That site didn't work for me, I wouldn't recommend it. I found a working magnet link though if anyone wants it dm me I guess? Idk how best to share it lol
Most of Graeber has audiobooks, as with Klein, Harvey, and I do a lot of manual labor and adhd makes it hard to read books otherwise so audiobooks are my jam and I stick to the private torrents.
Here are some lefty titles I’ve looked for audiobooks and haven’t found:
- The Long 20th century by Arrighi
- Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell
- The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
- Democracy at Work by Richard Wolff
- Most Michael Parenti
Will edit this with more as I think of them or find my list of epubs
I have a copy of Inventing Reality I could turn into an audiobook.
I listened to a TTS version of Blackshirts & Reds and the voice was good enough, but it's not the same without his voice and the yellow filter.
If anyone has a GPU, there's probably enough transcribed footage of Parenti speaking to train our own TTS. He can then read all of our books.
I am sending out invites to the planning instance of this on discord. Shoot me a DM if you'd like to join and didn't receive one.
There is LibriVox for out of copyright audiobooks with volunteer narrators. Check it out. If y’all do want to do this I’d still recommend depositing it there too.
Are you saying upload copwritten readings to Librivox? Would they allow that?
No I was just saying if you do read free use stuff for our community also consider putting it at librivox.
