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Which sources is your usual "go to"? (Btw how do you save all the megathread links for offline? In case this goes down) (sh.itjust.works)
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I usually use use ThePirateBay for video media (Movies / TV shows).

EBook: Library Genisys

Audiobooks: Audiobook Bay

Android APK: Sometimes I just google the .apks (and .obb files), but if find it on the ones listed in the megathread, I use those first.

Not sure if I'm doing piracy correctly

Edit: And also, what file formats is best?

Like, video media is 99% of the time a .mkv, so I'm assuming thats the most popular. But is x264 or x265 better. Like, I don't want to waste storage or wait too long before I can watch something, so what is the best storage to quality size?

And eBooks, .pdf .mobi .epub .azw3 wtf I'm confused

Audiobooks, there are m4b, and mp3

There is one series of books that I can only find .azw3 on Libgen, and nothing on F-Droid even opens that file format.

Yea I think I don't know what I'm doing.

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Same with audiobooks. The “classic” way is to have several MP3 files - 1 for each chapter. This allows them to be played even on dumb MP3 players.

However, the M4B format allows for more modern AAC and HE-AAC encoding and adds metadata such as chapters directly into the file. This results in the whole audiobook being contained in just one single file and with much better compression than MP3. But you’ll need a compatible player to listen to them.

(I’ve transcoded most of my audiobooks to M4B as a collection of 320kbps Stereo MP3s doesn’t make sense for just spoken content.)