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Originally Posted by skinmaan
It's rare for me to see a promo code for Audiobooks.com for more than the usual 1 credit, but I just spotted one https://www.lovereading.co.uk/2-free-audiobooks. Typically these are for new members only, but it doesn't state that here. I'm in the middle of a month on my membership or I'd try it out myself.
Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound |
The offer apparently is still in effect. I'm giving, below, the experience that I had simply
trying to find out what audiobooks that they have.
I was thinking about accepting the offer, but I wanted to peruse their selection of audiobooks first. Even though
the webpage that I went to was about
the free audiobooks offer, all that I could find was a "browse books" menu at the bottom of
the webpage. That was not a hot link, but the category names below it were hot links. Trying one, I got a webpage that was replete with hardbacks and paperbacks (I didn't know, before then, that
Audiobooks.com even sold paper-based books),
but no audiobooks, that I could see; to say the least, that wasn't very helpful. The only other applicable information that I saw on that the webpage assured me that
Audiobooks.com has "some of our favourite authors such as Dinah Jefferies, Joanna Cannon, Val McDermid, Katie Fforde, Philippa Gregory and thousands more!" among the choices. Again, not very helpful, to put it very mildly.
I finally found out how to do a search, filtering out everything but audiobooks. I went to
the Audiobooks signup webpage. There are two lists at the bottom of the webpage, one was for "popular authors" and one was for "popular titles," with 8 items in each list. Once again, not helpful; I had to ignore those. Finally, I saw
a button, near the top left of the webpage that says "Browse Books." Based on past experience, I was afraid that all that I would get would be dead-tree books. But, no, this time it appeared that there were
only audiobooks(!). And they even were sorted into genres, too!
I wondered about getting a trial membership--would canceling the service be a hassle like that? This experience has really soured me on Audiobooks.com. If I do anything now, I'll "use them (for a couple of free audiobooks), and lose them."