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Old 01-30-2012, 01:50 PM   #1
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Head Start - Free Audiobooks from Guardian UK
The Guardian (a UK newspaper) is once again giving away audiobooks as part of their Head Start program. The first free audiobook in the series is Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert. You'll need an account with AudioGo, but should not need to enter any credit card info (you don't even have to be from the UK or ROI, even if that is what it says on the Guardian's page)

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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.

Get the free Audiobook from The Guardian UK. You'll need to enter a name and email address, click to submit the info, then click a link that takes you to AudioGo; be sure to note the coupon code on that page, as you'll need it to get the book for free. Once at Audiogo, click on the ad, then click Checkout; log in (or create an account), then enter the promotional Code and click Update. Don't click on Continue until after you've confirmed that a total of $0.00/£0.00 is shown. Once you've added the audiobook to your account, you can download at any time (I'd expect download times to be very slow this week).

Tomorrow's book will be Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. The link is live now, but you can't sign up until it's Tues in the UK.
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Not showing up free for me.
I just downloaded Zen. The Guardian didn't care what country I was in, but I did have to enter a fictitious UK address at AudioGo to get the promotional code to work.
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Not showing up free for me.
Did you enter the promo code in at the second page of the checkout ? Once I entered that the price dropped to 0
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I guess I should have read the fine print. I would need to find access to the Guardian newspaper.
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I guess I should have read the fine print. I would need to find access to the Guardian newspaper.
For what? When you type in your email address and name on the Guardian website they give you the promotional code to use at AudioGo.
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I guess I should have read the fine print. I would need to find access to the Guardian newspaper.
The code is on the guardian website link after you first enter your details however it is easy to overlook it
For the Zen book the code was ZENART2
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Not showing up free for me.
Did you enter the coupon code you're given on the same page as the link to AudioGo?


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I just downloaded Zen. The Guardian didn't care what country I was in, but I did have to enter a fictitious UK address at AudioGo to get the promotional code to work.
I just use my US address with country set to UK
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I just use my US address with country set to UK
This is the 10th book I've gotten from them, and it was the first time I was told I couldn't download to my area. I didn't even enter an address, just flipped from US to UK, then it worked. Hate to fib, but, geesh...
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Just finished downloading, set my country as Canada, no problems, will be keeping an eye on it. Thank you for the tip!
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[QUOTE=AnemicOak;1947137]Did you enter the coupon code you're given on the same page as the link to AudioGo?

I wasn't looking on the right page. Thanks.
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Worked just fine for me. Local address, country UK.
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Today: Sophie's World

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...world-download

Note: the audiogo link is missing "s" at end of "Sophie" - you have to add it to get to order page.

ETA: Audiogo corrected their site and now the wrongly spelled link is working, so you no longer have to add an "s" to the URL to get it to work (in fact, now the correct spelling goes nowhere).
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