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by nonninz 2 days ago
Thanks for the BookOrbit hint. Seems very interesting.

I see it supports audiobooks and ebooks. Do you know if there is any way for keeping sync between an audiobook and ebook?

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It does not have any sort of "whispersync" but, ironically?, I feel like whispersync could be recreated with things like Whisper and parsing the epub/whatever to line up progress. BookOrbit is in active development from what I can see (I'm not connected to the project, just a happy user) and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a feature in the future. It's something I've mulled over building for a while (even before Whisper).

For my Audiobooks I don't use BookOrbit because my setup is:

- Buy on Audible

- Rip DRM off

- Add to Plex

- Use Prologue (iOS only) to listen

And I freaking love that setup so I'm not looking to replace it currently.

How do you rip the drm off audible? Id love to free my audioooks.