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THE HCP

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I love reading books…. But I hate reading books.
Bootlegged some audiobooks this past summer and fell in love with listening to them.
Just bit the bullet and signed up for Audible and it’s not what I thought it is. I thought I could just stream all the audiobooks I wanted with a membership like Spotify with music. But it looks like I have to BUY the books!!?? That’s not what I wanted FAMS.
Am I understanding this or am i off? Help!
 
THE HCP said:
I love reading books…. But I hate reading books.
Bootlegged some audiobooks this past summer and fell in love with listening to them.
Just bit the bullet and signed up for Audible and it’s not what I thought it is. I thought I could just stream all the audiobooks I wanted with a membership like Spotify with music. But it looks like I have to BUY the books!!?? That’s not what I wanted FAMS.
Am I understanding this or am i off? Help!
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Library has tons of them...you can check them out online as well...use your library dude...all you need is a card and their website.....your local librarian will hook you up with online audio books for free or even ship them to you when you travel. I donated a lot of audio books to my library years ago.
 
riverman said:
Library has tons of them...you can check them out online as well...use your library dude...all you need is a card and their website.....your local librarian will hook you up with online audio books for free or even ship them to you when you travel. I donated a lot of audio books to my library years ago.
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How do you ship and audiobook sir?
 
I remember almost crashing my car while listening to the Kite Runner because I started crying. If any of you have read the book you know what I'm talking about.

When I used to travel for work I would stop at the big truck stops and buy audiobooks there. Lots of them even have used, lots of truckers love audiobooks, lol.
 
THE HCP said:
How do you ship and audiobook sir?
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They come in CD form and our library ships them to truckers and if you pay out of district fees you can borrow them from any library that shares a catalogue with your branch...local truckers can check out more than other patrons due to their job here....Digital online books you can check out 3 at a time from our branch.
 
riverman said:
Library has tons of them...you can check them out online as well...use your library dude...all you need is a card and their website.....your local librarian will hook you up with online audio books for free or even ship them to you when you travel. I donated a lot of audio books to my library years ago.
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We use our local library a lot. Very well run and they offer many new publications and dvd movies.
 
James Patterson audiobooks are great! They actually spend money on production. Multiple voice actors for each book.
 
No CDs or DVDs here FAMS! Just the iPhone and iPad.
So it sounds like there is no service like Spotify to simply stream books!?!? Shit that’s what I thought audible was.
 
I read Kite Runner.

I have from the time I taught myself to read disliked being read to. My extensive library is all paper. Listen to music, read books.
 
THE HCP said:
No CDs or DVDs here FAMS! Just the iPhone and iPad.
So it sounds like there is no service like Spotify to simply stream books!?!? Shit that’s what I thought audible was.
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My audible subscription gives me a credit or two per month. Each credit is 1 book. Then there are a ton of books included with your audible account.
 
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crandc said:
I read Kite Runner.

I have from the time I taught myself to read disliked being read to. My extensive library is all paper. Listen to music, read books.
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Problem with paper books for me is I'm always doing something else. So can't devote the time to just reading. Except when I go to bed. If I'm reading a paper book in bed I'll stay up all night and read.

With an audiobook I can set it to shut off in 15 minutes and I once I turn off the light I rarely have to reset the timer.
 
crandc said:
I read Kite Runner.

I have from the time I taught myself to read disliked being read to. My extensive library is all paper. Listen to music, read books.
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I used to listen to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater when I was a kid as I was falling asleep, it was a great introduction to authors like Edgar Allan Poe.

https://www.cbsrmt.com/
 
Phatguysrule said:
Problem with paper books for me is I'm always doing something else. So can't devote the time to just reading. Except when I go to bed. If I'm reading a paper book in bed I'll stay up all night and read.

With an audiobook I can set it to shut off in 15 minutes and I once I turn off the light I rarely have to reset the timer.
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I do that with podcasts now. Can't fall asleep without one. Last year when we were deep in the jungle on our Mayan ruins adventure I knew there would a few nights without cell service so I downloaded some podcasts in advance, lol.
 
THE HCP said:
No CDs or DVDs here FAMS! Just the iPhone and iPad.
So it sounds like there is no service like Spotify to simply stream books!?!? Shit that’s what I thought audible was.
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dude...you don't need a CD player...libraries have online downloadable audio books you can put on a kindle fire or Ipad, etc....I don't know anything about Spotify or Audible whatever but you can read books on your device for free.
 
Audible there is a selection of "free" books. I had to stop as I started accumulating too many credits /books that were unlistened to.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I do that with podcasts now. Can't fall asleep without one. Last year when we were deep in the jungle on our Mayan ruins adventure I knew there would a few nights without cell service so I downloaded some podcasts in advance, lol.
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Yep! I use podcasts when I'm not reading a book.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
What are your favorites?
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Jeeze... I go in phases with a bunch...

This Week In Tech
This Week In Space
The Dollop
The Ezra Klein Show
StarTalk Radio
Locked on Blazers
This American Life
Planet Money
Science Friday
RadioLab
WTF Just Happened Today
Marketplace
Now Hear This: Canby
Skullduggery
Hardcore History
Science Rules with Bill Nye (no longer updated)
Our Ludicrous Future (very infrequent new content)
 
Phatguysrule said:
My audible subscription gives me a credit or two per month. Each credit is 1 book. Then there are a ton of books included with your audible account.
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Understanding this now, but I don’t want to keep books. I just want to listen to them and move on. Like Spotify. If I want to listen to Going to California by Les zeppelin, I don’t want to buy the whole album.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I do that with podcasts now. Can't fall asleep without one. Last year when we were deep in the jungle on our Mayan ruins adventure I knew there would a few nights without cell service so I downloaded some podcasts in advance, lol.
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Same here. I have a few hundred podcast always downloaded. That’s why I want to do this with books!
 
riverman said:
Our library let's you download 3 at a time and they disappear from your device after a certain period of time. You don't get to keep them on your device...just borrow them
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Just checked our local library’s catalogue. They don’t have nearly any of the authors I want. Oh well. Crazy that all this time I thought you could just stream books like Spotify does music. Time to start the bootlegging again.
 
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