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I'm asking around on social media for indie authors who have purposely uploaded their audiobooks on non-Paywalled sites (ie: youtube), to hit me up with their links. I KNOW these exist-- there are definitely authors out there other than me who are reading their own books and uploading them to youtube for folks to listen to! But I don't know how to find them! And probably so do most other people! So I'm making a list to share with the public! it'll be a cute little webpage. Yes yes I know about Libby (the library), please also support your public library, but there's plenty of ethically-sourced free indie audiobooks that MY library system doesn't have!!!! I don't care what genre it is, or what length it is! I don't care if it's only the first book in the series and the rest are paywalled (totally understand, audiobooks are expensive/time consuming). I don't care if it's in playlist form or if the entire god damn thing is one 27 hour video that your hubris convinced you to upload exactly as-is! I'm not discriminating on "quality" either because that's silly. Hell, it doesn't even have to be in English as long as you can communicate to me core information and a YouTube link (or other places). It can be poetry for all I care! The ONLY thing I will discriminate on is whether it's behind a paywall and whether there is AI-involved in the project-- ESPECIALLY the narrator! It MUST be read by a real human being! This is an honor system, and violators will be deleted and potentially blacklisted. (I specify indie mostly because I suspect it's mostly indie authors who would do this-- but I suppose you don't have to be indie!) (I'm striving to find ethically sourced ((author-endorsed/released)) free audiobooks, nothing pirated, and I'm not talking about Public Domain works-- I KNOW these exist!!!! I've seen them now and again!!! And I was a fool for not compiling a list of them!) Please share so I can help the indie audiobook world in one small way. I fucking hate Amazon with every fiber of my being and I want to support authors who have chosen to make a very hard decision.