oh, shoot, I need to apologize to because I thought UNINTENTIONALLY not intentionally, oopsie!
And it's great you got some nice finds on the $4.95 specials but for the books like there is pretty much one or two in the whole 250 that I have any interest in. And I long ago grabbed TTTW so no bonus for me when that was up on the list.
And I hear ya in that I do almost all my shopping within Amazon anymore. I save $1000's annually on fuel costs alone. And heck it's a wash with the upfront cost of a CostCo membership. And I can grab what I need on the fly no special trips. Yes, it hurts the small local sellers but where I live there haven't ever been affordable local shops. Even 40yrs ago people all drive at minimum a 50mi round trip to buy stuff. Heck even our K-Mart might have been the worst stocked K-Mart on the planet. haha...
Anyway, I see how Audible works for you and that's cool but my point on the post was to let someone who would like a nice new shiny to save some cash and have access to another form of exposure to literature at a reasonable cost. The key though is people need to make sure any existing MP3 player is Audible compatible or its a mess working around it! Yuk...