Audible is ok, but you have to have restraint. Get you 12 or 24 credits, Make sure none of the books you’re buying are available through overdrive with your library, spend your points, cancel, go through all those books, Read a few on dead trees, or even a few from LibGen, then when it’s all done wait until you can’t wait anymore and sign up for another 12 or 24 credits.
Save your audio books for when you’re driving or cooking or cleaning, Don’t just sit on the couch and listen to them.
And use the tools to rip them immediately. Until you extract mp3 data out of your books they’re not you are books.
I spot checked a few things I’m reading, they’re about 20-50% more expensive. It kind of looks like they’re just a new front end for Barnes & Noble, but with worse curation
You can also go directly to the publishers and save a couple of bucks.
I’m down for paying a bit more at a local retail store, or maybe even a few percent on an online store. But I have to pay $47.24 for Dune, I’m probably just going to pirate it.
Understandable. FWIW members (15 USD/month at this time) get a discount and the option to use one of the credits you get each month. So Dune can be had for 14.99. I get the pricey books with credits, others I use the discount for. It’s a bit odd and I don’t love memberships, but I do want to support ownership models where they still exist.
If you share access with friends and family using a self-hosted audiobook server then the value really sky-rockets.
Audible is ok, but you have to have restraint. Get you 12 or 24 credits, Make sure none of the books you’re buying are available through overdrive with your library, spend your points, cancel, go through all those books, Read a few on dead trees, or even a few from LibGen, then when it’s all done wait until you can’t wait anymore and sign up for another 12 or 24 credits.
Save your audio books for when you’re driving or cooking or cleaning, Don’t just sit on the couch and listen to them.
And use the tools to rip them immediately. Until you extract mp3 data out of your books they’re not you are books.
instead of giving money to a Bezos/Amazon owned service, you can support services like libro.fm that let you download/own the audiobook mp3 outright.
I spot checked a few things I’m reading, they’re about 20-50% more expensive. It kind of looks like they’re just a new front end for Barnes & Noble, but with worse curation
You can also go directly to the publishers and save a couple of bucks.
I’m down for paying a bit more at a local retail store, or maybe even a few percent on an online store. But I have to pay $47.24 for Dune, I’m probably just going to pirate it.
Understandable. FWIW members (15 USD/month at this time) get a discount and the option to use one of the credits you get each month. So Dune can be had for 14.99. I get the pricey books with credits, others I use the discount for. It’s a bit odd and I don’t love memberships, but I do want to support ownership models where they still exist.
If you share access with friends and family using a self-hosted audiobook server then the value really sky-rockets.
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Sorry I was driving at the time and Google AI is slowly ruining voice dictation. They’re not your books.
Please don’t browse lemmy while you’re driving
Dead stopped in traffic. Phone handsfree hence dictation.
LaVar Burton would like a word.
*LeVar
homie. calm down. it’s a dash mark. not a catastrophe.
You had the option of saying it’s an apostrophe not a catastrophe and you didn’t fucking take it
yeh that was my point, sorry it didn’t land