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Originally Posted by ApK
The two answers that spring immediately to mind are:
1. If you're already a member, it's a non-issue, just one more benefit of membership.
2. Libraries don't necessarily have all the same titles.
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1. I understand you to be saying that, as a member, you can use credits (and sometimes things like member-only sales, etc.) and just _buy_ what you want. One problem with my situation is that I'm on the Silver (1 credit/month) Plan, and I often burn through the one credit quickly.
2. I.e., the libraries don't have the titles that you want? Yeah, that's one of the things that I thought about. However, most of the audiobooks that I buy are of titles that I didn't have on my want list--they are impulse purchases from seeing them promoted/advertised by Audible or whoever. I would not be buying any of them otherwise. I wonder if the best course would be to limit my "shopping" to the two library systems where I have borrowing privileges.
Speaking of libraries where I have borrowing privileges . . . recently I've asked each of the two systems to consider buying two audiobooks (i.e., one audiobook at each of the two systems). Both systems quickly got back to me that they were going to buy the audiobook that I wanted each of them, respectively, to buy [I realize that the grammar in the preceding sentence is probably horrible.
]. YMMV.
Thanks for your comments. It was fodder for a lot of thinking on my part.
He's not just lucky, he's also shrewd. And I get the impression that he really works his calendar--putting down dates that sales start, noting when memberships end, etc. He had been saying, up until recently (he may have fallen off the wagon . . . . well, a more suitable metaphor is that he had started to fall out of his tree
) that he had spent a total of only $3 on audiobooks in his life!