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There are many encodes floating around and even a full bluray copy (criterion collection) on ygg.re... but I'm curious, how come it's at the top of your list?

I would disable Network Access at least, if you've never done it go to App Info (holding the app's icon) -> Mobile Data Usage -> Allow Network Access (at least it's there now in A14 / LOS 21, could be slightly different in other versions)

Oh I was totally not up to date lol, thank you. Love me some fantasy illustrations, I might check it out

Oh interesting, thank you!

Hold on which book? I thought it was a new story. I read the first 4 books of ASOIAF a long time ago but never got to A Dance with Dragons, is it in there?

Btw Plasma 6 is glorious. First time Wayland "just works" without me noticing too.

Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I'm lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.

I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.

Oh sorry, can't think of an easy solution then. I've seen that audiobookshelf can find metadata for you, that could be doable. They also support ebooks but if I understood correctly from their docs they don't get synced to the audio position, just to themselves.

A promising but still in beta software is Storyteller, under very active development here. It works by creating a 'rich' epub that contains the audio synced line by line, which you can then read/listen to with just one app.

There's also older software with a similar approach like syncabook but at a glance it seems less usable than Storyteller.

HDD usually don't have a limited number of writes like SSD do, if they are robust, maybe enterprise units, they can last a long time.

In a home environment some prefer using slower (5400 vs 7200), non-enterprise hard drives, maybe fewer drives with higher capacity, to reduce noise, power consumption and improve cooling (in enterprise settings this stuff is standardized and they don't care about noise, in my custom pc I might have forgotten to use the vibration dampeners or I mounted the disks vertically..every white box is different).

Also there are big differences between different models and makers. If they're cheap enough those helium filled enterprise drives can be one of the best options!

Those big files like .m4b (b stands for book) should have chapters within it, if you open them with mpv on your pc you should be able to see them on the time bar. On Android I've been using Voice, it's really well polished and shows a big chapter name so I usually remember where I was if I switch devices, even if not to the exact minute.

I figured out how to encode to a single m4b in fre:ac so I only use Voice now (or my ipod, which was the reason why I learned how to use fre:ac).

I know you asked for syncing (one day I'll try adding the audiobook plugin to my jellyfin), but this works for me.

If you prefer a folder of files, you can use fre:ac or many other encoders/tools to split them up.

croc is great, works even when devices cant find each other on the network, or with gigantic folders (I use it between computers).

Or Simplex chat, I dont use it to chat but only to quickly share between phone and laptop :)

It's not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it's the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. "Have you seen the birds fly?"