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Originally Posted by svenlind
Thank you very much for your reply.
As I see it you shall do the following steps to buy a book from audible save it on your PC (Windows 10).
1. Buy the book
2. Download the book to the PC.
Here you must specify that the book shall go to the Audible Download Manager. And you shall also specify a location, even if you already have specified the location in the download manager.
This will also transfer the book to iTunes.
If I synchronize the iDevice with iTunes I can see the book cover in the audible app.
But when I play it, I hear some music from my music library???
Well I am not very adept using iTunes.
3. Now to make a MP3 backup.
There are several programs that can do the conversion. But the testversions only convert about 5-10 minutes.
So I bit the bullet and bought one of the programs. It made the conversion, but it lasted about 6 hours. The original audible 681 MB file increased to a 1.31 GB MP3 file!
I will no try to see if listening to books is something for me before I use more time and money.
A final question what program can be recommended to transfer from an audible file to an MP3 file?
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I use TunesKit on the mac. They have a version for Windows, though I haven't tried it. I probably wouldn't buy it until you decide that you like audible and want to keep buying audible books since it's $40. It generally takes only a few minutes per audiobook on the mac.
Frankly, when you first start listening to audible books, just using the audible app works just fine via the cloud and on the device tabs. It's plenty good enough when you are only talking 10 or 20 audiobooks.
I go through all the other stuff mostly because I prefer having an unDRMed backup. I've got fairly close to 800 audiobooks, which is a fairly healthy investment that I want to be able to keep using no matter what. I feel the same way about ebooks and digital movies.
Yes, the mp3 will be larger than the aax file. That's the downside to mp3 files.
I also used mp3 files to listen to audiobooks in my car before I got a stereo that did CarPlay, but that was strictly for listening to audiobooks in cars. You can see my various experiences with audiobooks and cars in iOS audiobook player thread.