06-07-2011, 05:56 PM | #46 | |
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Location: TAS, Australia My Croatian library does not offer audiobooks or ebooks... they laughed at me when I asked about the ebooks. Now, I reckon the situation is probably gonna be closer to USA than Croatia, but I honestly don't know that information. |
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06-07-2011, 06:22 PM | #47 | |
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Here's one: Librivox These books are read by human volunteers, so closer to the Audible/Overdrive experience. There are also sites with computer-read books. |
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06-12-2011, 08:31 AM | #48 | |
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We'll give it a go. Quick question of audible, you pay a subscription and get a number of 'tokens' to download books with. If you stop subscribing do you still have access to your audio books? Or are they only valid whilst you have a subscription? |
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06-12-2011, 09:28 AM | #49 |
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Once downloaded, they are like any other .mp3 or equivalent, and you can listen to them whenever, account or no account. The only thing you won't be able to do is download them again from Audible.
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06-12-2011, 09:30 AM | #50 |
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Will you gain access to downloading them again if you renew your subscription? Or is it a download it now or forever lost sorta thing?
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06-12-2011, 09:34 AM | #51 |
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You will always have access to them. I had a couple of year gap, and now I'm back with them, all my downloads going back to 2006 are still avaliable for download again.
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06-12-2011, 12:47 PM | #52 |
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If you choose to buy more, you'll pay the full non-member price. One warning - be sure you have zero available credits when you leave - you lose them otherwise. I hadn't realized you can't download what you'd already paid for?
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06-12-2011, 02:53 PM | #53 | |
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This isn't the case. I have currently suspended my account, and quit once before for a couple of years, and all my downloads are still available going back to when I first set up an account (or have I misunderstood what you are saying?) |
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06-12-2011, 08:19 PM | #54 |
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I thought others here were saying that if you stop paying a monthly fee altogether (for good, not just "suspended"), you lose access to ALL of your purchased books? I was under the impression that you could still download those, as well as purchase new ones ... at the whopping "non-member" rate?
There are very few books I want to purchase that I can't get through my own library, but I have a dozen or so books that I've spent credits on, but haven't listened to at all yet. Are you saying that I'll have to keep shelling out at least $15/month (for one credit) to be able to access those? |
06-12-2011, 08:52 PM | #55 |
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I've been an audible.com customer for years--can't seem to get away from the hour long commutes, at one time into San Jose and Cupertino, now into Boston.
If I had to pick one it would probably be Tim Curry's reading of Sabriel by Garth Nix. I've listened to a few by Simon Vance--he did Richard Morgan's Thirteen--one of my all time favorite authors and books. Chris |
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That said, I would still download all my books and back them up, just as with ebooks. There is no guarantee that the rules won't change down the road or the publishers won't withdraw their books, Audible go out of business, etc. In looking for this I also found there are geographic restrictions on audiobooks, which I didn't know before: Quote:
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06-12-2011, 11:00 PM | #58 |
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I would do that, however I use three different audio players, and don't know right now which one I want to listen to which book with.
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06-12-2011, 11:32 PM | #59 |
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Right now I listen to library audiobooks on my PC and Audible books on my phone. My brother is going to lend me his iPod so I get to use that for a bit until I buy my own Sansa Clip+.
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Reposting arcadata's post from the bargain Kindle thread
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