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Don't buy anything for a while.
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That would be my advice, too
I've been an Amazon customer for about 15 years but I've never been tempted to get sucked into this whole eco-system business. There are always alternatives.
When I want/need my books to be read aloud, Android has many epub reader apps which will happily use TTS for all my epubs not just the ones where somebody else has decided it's 'allowed'. There's no way on earth any company is going to convince me I need to own the same book in both text and audio format. Admitted TTS is not as good as having the book performed by a trained voice actor, but for my purposes it gets the job done. (
This is not to say I think audiobooks are a waste of money because they were an absolute godsend to my poor Mum who was registered blind for the last 10 years of her life. The local library offered a free postal audiobook service for her.)
For TV and radio programmes there's the BBC iPlayer free for all UK license-fee payers. Also, if you're already paying through the nose to be a SkyTV subscriber then why not take advantage (for no extra cost) of their excellent Catch-up service, box sets, films and their mobile apps for on-the-go watching.