okay! I have no idea how much you know about torrenting, so i'm just going to describe the whole process step by step.
so first, sign up for a VPN service if you don't already have one. we use Cyberghost on all of our devices, and we love it (and it's $57 for three years, so, very affordable); lots of people like Nord, Proton has a VPN, etc.
Once you have a VPN installed on your computer, turn it on and set your location to someplace different from where you live. Then, download a torrenting app like qBitTorrent (that's the one we use). Once that is working, go to audiobookbay.lu, poke around in the library to find the books you want, and then - this is the tricky bit, to my mind - don't click any of the obvious links, because those are all ads. You do not need to pay for anything in this process (except the original VPN subscription); anything that is telling you to pay is an ad. You need to click the smaller, more subtle "magnet link" in order to download the file to the torrenting app. When the file is fully downloaded, then you can move it around, put it on other devices, listen at will.
they don't have everything, but they do have an awful lot of things. Also with qBitTorrent, i copy files out of the place it downloads them, rather than moving them entirely, so that whenever i am doing this, the files i have downloaded can function as "seeds" for other people also doing this. that helps support the whole file-sharing network.
we also do this with the majority of our TV/movie consumption (terra likes limewire for downloading tv; i am more comfortable with pirate bay. there are a number of reputable sites out there.) this has enabled us to cancel all our streaming service subscriptions except spotify, which has been a great boon to our budget.
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okay! I have no idea how much you know about torrenting, so i'm just going to describe the whole process step by step.
so first, sign up for a VPN service if you don't already have one. we use Cyberghost on all of our devices, and we love it (and it's $57 for three years, so, very affordable); lots of people like Nord, Proton has a VPN, etc.
Once you have a VPN installed on your computer, turn it on and set your location to someplace different from where you live. Then, download a torrenting app like qBitTorrent (that's the one we use). Once that is working, go to audiobookbay.lu, poke around in the library to find the books you want, and then - this is the tricky bit, to my mind - don't click any of the obvious links, because those are all ads. You do not need to pay for anything in this process (except the original VPN subscription); anything that is telling you to pay is an ad. You need to click the smaller, more subtle "magnet link" in order to download the file to the torrenting app. When the file is fully downloaded, then you can move it around, put it on other devices, listen at will.
they don't have everything, but they do have an awful lot of things. Also with qBitTorrent, i copy files out of the place it downloads them, rather than moving them entirely, so that whenever i am doing this, the files i have downloaded can function as "seeds" for other people also doing this. that helps support the whole file-sharing network.
we also do this with the majority of our TV/movie consumption (terra likes limewire for downloading tv; i am more comfortable with pirate bay. there are a number of reputable sites out there.) this has enabled us to cancel all our streaming service subscriptions except spotify, which has been a great boon to our budget.