Board 8 > audiobooks and audible

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i'm giving this a go

if you use audiobooks/audible what's your experience been like?

also looking for some nonfiction recs if anyone knows good ones

it's pretty awesome

I listen to audiobooks at work all the time and I've never had any problems with Audible
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what kind of books do you listen to?

I've been using it to listen to a lot of classic fiction, especially mysteries. I've listened to a ton of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie stuff.
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LeonhartFour posted...

it's pretty awesome

I listen to audiobooks at work all the time and I've never had any problems with Audible

Same. Listened to the last 4 books in the Wheel of Time series and Neuromancer at work in the past month or so. Makes the day go by quicker
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I get CDs from the library. Got through the second half of Wheel of Time that way, and am now a good ways into ASoIaF. Sometimes they skip but eh

I got a new car with an AUDIO JACK so maybe now I can join the 21st century and run them through my phone or smth
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audible is kind of garbage imo, there used to be tons of audiobook subs that let you listen to as many audio books as you wanted a month, audible bought them out so it could be the top dog with its "one audio book a month for an insanely high amount of money"
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SantaRPidgey posted...

there used to be tons of audiobook subs that let you listen to as many audio books as you wanted a month

yeah i thought this was the case for audible but after a short amount of time of looking into it, quickly found out it was not. $15 a month was a bit more than i was expecting honestly but i guess i get it since the cost of audiobooks doesn't really differ from the cost of new physical books. and they let you keep the audiobook even if you cancel apparently which i guess other services don't?

i'm on the audible free trial right now. i might get too used to listening to stuff while driving to the point where i just keep the subscription.

I mean maybe if you only listen a few hours every week it's not too bad, but for someone like me that has 8 hours of listening to fill a day, one audio book a month is not really useful.
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I listen to audiobooks whenever I'm doing tasks. I haven't really considered doing it while working (I prefer listening to music), but I may give that a shot. I have like 7 books I haven't read. I do non-fiction, but I mainly listen to political history books. The LBJ Biography by Robert Caro is all on there and I listened to the first 2 books and it was really good.
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For what it is worth, there are a bunch of audiobooks on sale on Audible right now for $5. The majority weren't for me but there were a couple that caught my eye.
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Audible has sales all the time, yeah.
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Don't forget to check if your library lets you download audiobooks from their website! Almost all US libraries have digital collections of ebooks and audiobooks. If you don't have a library card, some of them even let you instantly get a card online for their digital stuff...

(...I uh may work for a company that creates such websites for libraries <_< )
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