Audible...and other audiobook delivery mechanisms that may or may not be available

[Sidewaysbob]

Ooh, I missed that, cheers

[Danster]

Goddam! ME Too!!! Shit... just spent my credit for the month. C'mon Audible you know I have all the Abercrombie books on my Audible and some on Kindle and yet you don't plaster it over my homepage! Grrrrr

[Padster]

I'm really enjoy A Brief History of Time, partly because of the wonderfully breathy soft-porn style reading!

 

It's just a shame that whenever Stephen Hawking veers into personal anecdote (thankfully rarely) he comes across as such a dick.

[Stopharage]

There’s a 3 for 2 sale on at the moment on Audible. Can’t say I was overly enamoured with the selection but might be something in there for other folks. 

[ZOK]

The narration of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is superb, and in that sale. 

 

Most of the value tends to be in the classics in those sales, but agreed, even there it is a little slight. Still, i picked up Zola's amazing Therese Raquin narrated by Kate Winslet, Orwell's Burmese Days (a personal favourite) and a Jeeves collection, so not bad in 3 for 2.

[ZOK]

Incidentally, I’m just on to volume 2 of Tolstoy’s War & Peace, this has so far been a perfect narration by Neville Jason, who I’d not heard before.

 

This version is two separate 30 hour books - I noticed there is a single volume that clocks in at 61 hours that would save you a credit, but it’s read by someone else. This read has been more than worth the two credits they cost.

[Stopharage]

Audible are doing a daily sale at the moment, with books starting at £1.99 and 100 different books a day. 
Today has the first three Northern Lights books (2 x £2.99, 1x£1.99). Wolf Hall - £2.99, Norse Mythology - 99p, The Selfish Gene, World War Z, Great Gatsby, Conversations with Friends, What I talk about when I talk about running etc

[ZOK]

If The Great Gatsby narration is the one by Jake Gyllenhaal it’s a wonderful read.

[Stopharage]

The rather wonderful Mortimer and Whitehouse:Gone Fishing is down to £1.99 today. 
 

The Audible Black Friday list is up as well. Here. Not available to purchase until next Friday. 

[Timmo]

Decent membership deals at the moment, too. I just jumped back in. (There's different links if it seems to not be working for you.)

 

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/3-months-of-audible-for-half-price-possible-10-off-with-topcashback-offer-making-it-187-3330104

[Laine]

Any recommendations for the black Friday sale stuff?
 

I’ve don’t that thing again where I just hoard my credits as I never know what to spend them on. I want to get the Brett Anderson books but feel is a waste of credits as they’re so short! 

[Timmo]

Members only 2 for 1 sale. Better than the awful £3 sale at least.

[ZOK]

I just polished off Burmese Days by George Orwell, absolutely superb narration by Allan Corduner, capturing the varied cast of desperate characters wonderfully.

 

Curiously, at one point I very clearly heard the sound of a police siren going past, he must have recorded it in his back bedroom or something.

[Vimster]

Okay this has probably been covered somewhere but right now I'm paying £7.99 a month and getting 1 credit. I can buy 3 credits for £18 (£6 each). What's to stop me buying 12 credits and then stopping the monthly? Do I lose all my credits? Is there a catch?

[Padster]

1 hour ago, Vimster said:

I can buy 3 credits for £18 (£6 each).

 

How does one do this? Can't see it on the Audible site??

 

Edit: found it, only if you're already an active member. Makes sense.

[Stopharage]

2 hours ago, Vimster said:

Okay this has probably been covered somewhere but right now I'm paying £7.99 a month and getting 1 credit. I can buy 3 credits for £18 (£6 each). What's to stop me buying 12 credits and then stopping the monthly? Do I lose all my credits? Is there a catch?

Yep, as soon as you go to leave you're then told that you'll lose all remaining credits. I was going to cancel at the end of the month to get a cheaper rate and ended up buying Underland, The Future Starts Here, The Uninhabitable Earth and I,Robot. Didn't cancel in the end as I'm just waiting to see if there's any decent post-xmas sales. 

[Vimster]

2 minutes ago, Stopharage said:

Yep, as soon as you go to leave you're then told that you'll lose all remaining credits. I was going to cancel at the end of the month to get a cheaper rate and ended up buying Underland, The Future Starts Here, The Uninhabitable Earth and I,Robot. Didn't cancel in the end as I'm just waiting to see if there's any decent post-xmas sales. 

They're way ahead of me, clearly :(.

[Sidewaysbob]

I thought you could only buy the 3 credit deal when you had less than 3 credits, no ?

[Danster]

I should really move to the annual plan

 

https://audible-uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5527/~/what-are-the-different-membership-plans-audible-offers%3F

 

Membership PlanPriceAudible Credits

1 Book Monthly Membership£7.99/month 1 credit per month

2 Book Monthly Membership£14.99/month 2 per month

12 Book Annual Membership£69.99/year 12 per year at time of enrollment

24 Book Annual Membership£109.99/year 24 per year at time of enrollment

[Miner Willy]

Today's one day sale has loads of great stuff in. 

[Hawklord]

I've posted this in the Neal Peart thread but as a tribute to his passing Amazon have made all of Neal Peart's audiobooks free

 

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/neil-peart-rush-lead-drummer-7-audiobooks-free-at-amazon-3389093

[ZOK]

On 14/10/2019 at 19:12, ZOK said:

The narration of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is superb, and in that sale. 

 

Most of the value tends to be in the classics in those sales, but agreed, even there it is a little slight. Still, i picked up Zola's amazing Therese Raquin narrated by Kate Winslet, Orwell's Burmese Days (a personal favourite) and a Jeeves collection, so not bad in 3 for 2.

I couldn’t get on with Kate Winslet’s narration at all, it was really flat. The Jeeves was excellent, it’s a stand-alone story called Thank You, Jeeves narrated by Jonathan Cecil, brief and splendid.

 

Joanna David’s narration of A Room with a View is very nice indeed. At the moment I’ve got Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game on the go, the narrator is David Colacci who is doing a great for an American (I find American narrators can sometimes be more monotonal)...however on the odd occasion he reminds me of Jerry from Rick & Morty.

[timgp]

Does anyone have experience of digitising audiobooks from CD on MacOS? I'm not finding it as simple as I might have hoped.

[SozzlyJoe]

If anyone is into Sherlock Holmes, I'd wholeheartedly recommend the Stephen Fry reading. It's hard to imagine it being possible to do a better one, really. His love for the series really shines through in informative forewords as well.

 

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sherlock-Holmes-The-Definitive-Collection-Audiobook/B06X1BRZYC?ref=a_lib_c4_libItem_B06X1BRZYC&pf_rd_p=141829f9-9520-4744-b903-c10e5595070d&pf_rd_r=X5BWCYESCKJG1YNQGRZE

 

 

[Laine]

So before I waste my 4 credits getting all the Jilly Coopers in the 3 for 2 sale, has anyone got anything good lately?

[Danster]

11 minutes ago, Laine said:

So before I waste my 4 credits getting all the Jilly Coopers in the 3 for 2 sale, has anyone got anything good lately?

 

If you haven't listened to Joe Abercrombie, get Joe Abercrombie.

[Stopharage]

If you like football then The Age of Football by David Goldblatt is absolutely superb. 
 

Adam Buxton’s Ramble Book, Louus Theroux’s Gotta Het Theroux This and The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin have all been recent things I’ve enjoyed. 
 

What kind of stuff do you normally enjoy? 

[Vimster]

On 12/05/2020 at 15:28, Laine said:

So before I waste my 4 credits getting all the Jilly Coopers in the 3 for 2 sale, has anyone got anything good lately?

I read Riders many many years ago and it's fantastic posh-trash. I had to get the first three of those books in this sale. Really looking forward to it.

[Laine]

19 hours ago, Vimster said:

I read Riders many many years ago and it's fantastic posh-trash. I had to get the first three of those books in this sale. Really looking forward to it.

I’m listening to it now! Narrator is so good at posh voices. I’ve read them countless times. So good! The best one I reckon is The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, an excellent evil villain in that one and a fab hero. His name is Lysander! That’s the fourth though so you won’t manage it in the three for 2 unfortunately.

On 12/05/2020 at 15:40, Stopharage said:

If you like football then The Age of Football by David Goldblatt is absolutely superb. 
 

Adam Buxton’s Ramble Book, Louus Theroux’s Gotta Het Theroux This and The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin have all been recent things I’ve enjoyed. 
 

What kind of stuff do you normally enjoy? 

Oh god it’s so wide and varied! Things I’ve listened to recently - I loved the three body problem series, Sapient, so you’ve been publicly shamed, the crimson petal and the white, children of time / children of ruin, some history of Romans / Egyptians... oh senlin ascend too.

 

Proper book wise I’m ploughing through the farseer books, rosewater, I’m liking Japanese fiction like Yoko Ogowa too. 

[Laine]

On 12/05/2020 at 15:40, Danster said:

 

If you haven't listened to Joe Abercrombie, get Joe Abercrombie.

Oh and I got the first one of these but I didn’t get into it. I’ll try again I’d I haven’t returned it.