FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I don't usually post questions about streaming audio, but since you broached the subject, here goes.

Have any of ya'll had any experience using a software program (there are several out there, some of which I think are freeware or shareware) that supposedly record the sounds that come out of a computer? So, for example, if you have a free streaming audio that's not available as a free download, you can still save it on your computer.

And is there anyone knowledgeable about the legality of using these programs or downloading items that a website doesn't want you to be able to download, but only to stream?

I've wondered about both of those questions for quite some time, but never seen an answer to them (I know that there's bound to be a better thread for this question on MobileRead than this one, but I like you guys better ).

If it's not available as a free download, then downloading it by others means amounts to piracy and that's not an appropriate topic for discussion here at MR.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 22 Feb

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- The Buried Book -- DM Pulley --> historical
  
• BN Nook --> $7.99 -- I Am Malala -- Malala Yousafzai, etc --> memoir

[Ricky D'Angelo]

When you think LibriVox you might think of a boring narrator reading in a flat/monotone voice. . well at least I do. However, I was surprised to find Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" recorded with a full cast in a semi-professional manner. Here is the link to the legal/free audio recording.

https://librivox.org/the-taming-of-t...m-shakespeare/

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 23 Feb

• £2.99 -- Smiley's People -- John le Carré --> espionage

[tubemonkey]

PRH finally posted this deal earlier today. See this post for details.


Penguin Random House -- Free Monthly Offer -- exp 24 Feb @ 11:59 AM ET

FREE -- Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat -- Edward Moore/ A Ojo, etc --> 12.4 hrs --> literary

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 23 Feb

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Followed by Frost -- Charlie Holmberg --> YA romance
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- Make 'Em Laugh -- Debbie Reynolds, etc --> memoir

* Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends

[tubemonkey]

Penguin Random House -- exp unknown

FREE -- Remote: Office Not Required -- Jason Fried, et al/ R Lowman --> 3.4 hrs --> business

Remote: Office Not Required

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why – with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo -- more businesses will want to promote this new model of getting things done.

The Industrial Revolution's "under one roof" model of conducting work is steadily declining owing to technology that is rapidly creating virtual workspaces and allowing workers to provide their vital contribution without physically clustering together. Today, the new paradigm is "move work to the workers, rather than workers to the workplace." According to Reuters, one in five global workers telecommutes frequently and nearly ten percent work from home every day. Moms in particular will welcome this trend. A full 60% wish they had a flexible work option. But companies see advantages too in the way remote work increases their talent pool, reduces turnover, lessens their real estate footprint, and improves the ability to conduct business across multiple time zones, to name just a few advantages. In Remote, inconoclastic authors Fried and Hansson will convince readers that letting all or part of work teams function remotely is a great idea--and they're going to show precisely how a remote work setup can be accomplished.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Penguin Random House -- exp 24 Feb @ 11:59 AM ET

• FREE -- Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat --> details

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 24 Feb

• £2.99 -- My Brilliant Friend -- Elena Ferrante --> contemp

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 24 Feb

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Kindred -- Octavia Butler --> sci-fi
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- Marked for Life -- Emelie Schepp --> suspense

[GtrsRGr8]

No time to make a detailed post--the ebook portion goes up to $1.99 in just over 11 hours from now.

The Whispersync deal for Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him, rated 4.8 stars, from 5 reviews at Amazon, is currently only $2.98.

This is a big ebook--436 pages, so I would expect the listening time to be well over 10 hours.

https://www.amazon.com/Repeat-Offend.../dp/B00T0RLDFU.

Oh, yeah, if you buy the audio from Audible, it will set you back $21.95.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 25 Feb

• £1.99 -- King John -- Marc Morris --> NF history

* King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 25 Feb

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Man Who Mistook... -- Oliver Sacks --> NF medicine
  
• BN Nook --> $4.99 -- Brotherhood in Death -- JD Robb --> mystery

* The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 26 Feb

• £2.99 -- The Firemaker -- Peter May --> detective

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 26 Feb

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Crush It! -- Gary Vaynerchuk --> business
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- The Miniaturist -- Jessie Burton --> historical

* Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion