I’m trying to find an audio book of a popular book series. But when I start looking, I only found one of the audio books of a trilogy. (looking through the links in the megathread/wiki)

I’m not sure why the 2nd and 3rd audiobook of the triligy can’t be found, it should be popular enough that someone would’ve share it. It came out like a decade ago.

I found all 3 books (like the text-only book), but I’m kinda annoyed I can’t find the audio books.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, older media (especially audiobooks) can be hard to find. Sometimes Anna’s Archive has it, but other times it feels nearly impossible.

    There are also some serial/daily radio drama releases that can be hard to find. There was one in particular that I spent about a week looking for, until I finally found someone who had a compiled version.

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    6 days ago

    I’ve been trying to find Deon Cole’s Black Box but no luck so far.

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    The Hop Harrigan 1946 serial and the Congo Bill 1948 serial. I found a Hop Harrigan torrent that sat at 0% on my list without even downloading metadata for about two years before I gave up. And I couldn’t find Congo Bill anywhere. Something tells me that Congo Bill would be pretty problematic and full of insulting stereotypes these days though.

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    8 days ago

    Speaking generally, repair/Haynes manuals for vehicles and home appliances (the ones that exist ofc). Some are out there, but I almost never find the one I want.

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      Lol I saw the https error and I just assumed the site was a dead link.

      Why do they not have https? Isn’t Let’s Encrypt free? 🤔

      But anyways, I think I found them, its torrenting now.

      Thanks!

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    There’s a game demo we got on one of those demo disks that I played for ages, The Flying Doughman, like a puzzle platformer. I would think I imagined it if my brother didn’t remember it too, but from my searches it seems like it’s become lost media

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    7 days ago

    I’m always struggling to find ebooks and flac albums, sometimes it is fine but sometimes it is impossible. Or they are weird versions.

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    Some lost JAV. Specifically some of Kaho Shibuyas. Haven’t been able to complete that collection yet. VRs and some older videos that the publisher doesn’t even exist anymore. I’d pay even. But until I visit an old DVD shop in Japan they are lost to the Internet.

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    I’ve definitely had trouble finding specific books. There’s a popular book about the local climate here which is only available in print. There is a copy uploaded to archive.org, somebody scaned the whole book in, but it’s unavailable for download or check out.

    Have you checked archive.org? Or your local library systems?

    Also, there are some books which don’t have audiobooks that I’ve wanted to listen to. The Microsoft edge browser has a read to me mode which is really good. If you can find a book in text form, you can sometimes listen to it that way. I’ve actually converted ePub files into text files just for this purpose.

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    8 days ago

    I haven’t tried super hard, but season 5 of Tim and Eric’s Aweseome Show Great Job is the only one I can’t get. I found one torrent, but there are no seeders.