Does anybody use audible?

[bingybongy]

craigjm said:

Thread resurrection!

My dad is now getting to the point where audiobooks will be a better move than print books so been looking at Audible. I see that the subscription is £7.99 a month but the site is scant on detail. I assume that is £7.99 per month (after the free trial) and that gets you one credit that you can spend on a book of any cost. After you have purchased that one book do you have to buy any others you want a month at full price? I understand if you dont use a credit it rolls on to the next month and once you have a book you get to keep it even if you cancel your subscription. Am i missing anything?

£7.99 after the free trial, then 1 credit a month. With the 1 credit you can buy any book.
You will also receive a daily email about the book of the day which cost either £1.99 or £2.99, I've bought a few of those.
There is also an option to buy 3 credits for £18, this is again emailed to you before credit day.
The credits roll over but I'm sure I read that you can only have a maximum of 6
There are also lots of Audible Original, I'll call them podcasts, which are free and generally very good.
Have a shop round, Google audible special offers, I got 3 months at 2.99 a month and a tenner Amazon gift card after the 3rd payment via the Daily Mail by doing just that. hi
The best value book is the Sherlock Holmes collection read by Stephen Fry, 71 hours and most enjoyable.

[craigjm]

Thanks for the info guys

[bingybongy]

Here you go, an audible offer.

https://discountcode.dailymail.co.uk/audible?utm_s...

[yep_howard]

yea sure, I always use it on the go.. there are lots of offers on audible.. sometimes even from a different country.. but you can still use these offers, just have to sign in and out.. the phone will save them all in the library

[ChilledOut]

Derek Smith said:

My library has quite a selection, a couple of hundred or so, of Audiobooks, published, apparently, by Bolinda audio. They are on CD.


My library charges £1.40 for three week's loan for books up to 7 CDs. £2.80 for 8 and more. You can order one from another library in the country

I tried Audible but then found my local library (hosted by Bolinda Audio) lets you have 6 audio books and 10 e-books without charge. I download the audiobooks onto my iPhone or iPad and they stay on there until I return them... they auto delete after 21 days. If a book is out on loan you can see when it’s available and reserve it.

[Derek Smith]

ChilledOut said:

Derek Smith said:

My library has quite a selection, a couple of hundred or so, of Audiobooks, published, apparently, by Bolinda audio. They are on CD.


My library charges £1.40 for three week's loan for books up to 7 CDs. £2.80 for 8 and more. You can order one from another library in the country

I tried Audible but then found my local library (hosted by Bolinda Audio) lets you have 6 audio books and 10 e-books without charge. I download the audiobooks onto my iPhone or iPad and they stay on there until I return them... they auto delete after 21 days. If a book is out on loan you can see when it’s available and reserve it.

Just picked that up. Thanks for that. I'll give it a go.