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pwalker8 · 04-12-2015, 10:01 AM

Went on my every couple of months audible buying spree this morning. Note, I have two ways that I tend to buy audio books. First, I buy certain favored authors or books as soon as they come out. Second, I'll buy a group of books that are on my wish list every couple of months. I will normally look at the audiobooks sorted by date available every couple of weeks and put books that I'm interested in, in my wish list. I also will put all the books in a series into the wish list when I try out a new series.

The primary driver of a buying spree is the is a specific book that I want to listen to (in this case the second of the Lockwood & co books, The Whispering Skull). Then I fill out the order (usually 4 or 5 books) with an assortment of books. Once I download the books, I back them up and then arrange them in my listening queue. I rarely will listen to back to back books by the same author or of the "flavor" to avoid getting burned out on that author.

I have a couple of audio books on pre-order, the James Marster's reading of Ghost Story and Jurassic Park. Ghost Story is the only Harry Dresden book that I don't have in audiobook and it's the only one that didn't use Marster as the narrator. Apparently Marster wasn't available when the book came out and they used someone else. The reviews were not favorable. While I thought that Ghost Story is the weakest of the Harry Dresden series, I do look forward to listening to Marster's reading.

I'm not sure when Audible added the pre-order, but it's fairly recent. I like it. So far, Audible has managed to keep a lot of the unique flavor of their website. There are a few Amazon things that have filtered in, usually for the worse, but all in all, audible makes it easy for me to find what I want and easy to buy what I want. The biggest issue that I have is that the suggestions are starting to move more into a direction of books they want me to buy, rather than books that I am actually interested in. A year ago, I at least saw the logic of the suggestion, even if it wasn't a book I wanted, but now it's mostly "who is this author and why in the world would I be interested in the book?"

04-12-2015, 10:01 AM	#1207
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	Went on my every couple of months audible buying spree this morning. Note, I have two ways that I tend to buy audio books. First, I buy certain favored authors or books as soon as they come out. Second, I'll buy a group of books that are on my wish list every couple of months. I will normally look at the audiobooks sorted by date available every couple of weeks and put books that I'm interested in, in my wish list. I also will put all the books in a series into the wish list when I try out a new series. The primary driver of a buying spree is the is a specific book that I want to listen to (in this case the second of the Lockwood & co books, The Whispering Skull). Then I fill out the order (usually 4 or 5 books) with an assortment of books. Once I download the books, I back them up and then arrange them in my listening queue. I rarely will listen to back to back books by the same author or of the "flavor" to avoid getting burned out on that author. I have a couple of audio books on pre-order, the James Marster's reading of Ghost Story and Jurassic Park. Ghost Story is the only Harry Dresden book that I don't have in audiobook and it's the only one that didn't use Marster as the narrator. Apparently Marster wasn't available when the book came out and they used someone else. The reviews were not favorable. While I thought that Ghost Story is the weakest of the Harry Dresden series, I do look forward to listening to Marster's reading. I'm not sure when Audible added the pre-order, but it's fairly recent. I like it. So far, Audible has managed to keep a lot of the unique flavor of their website. There are a few Amazon things that have filtered in, usually for the worse, but all in all, audible makes it easy for me to find what I want and easy to buy what I want. The biggest issue that I have is that the suggestions are starting to move more into a direction of books they want me to buy, rather than books that I am actually interested in. A year ago, I at least saw the logic of the suggestion, even if it wasn't a book I wanted, but now it's mostly "who is this author and why in the world would I be interested in the book?"