FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015 - Page 55

koland · 07-18-2015, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I've got what I think is a great free audiobook for you.

It is The 4-Hour Chef, by Timothy Ferriss. It is a "New York Times bestseller" (I suppose that refers to the book, as I am not aware that the NYT does a bestseller list for audiobooks).

Repeat of offer last year from Leawo.

Also, on the blu-ray player software:

http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/ (direct download)

or

https://stacksocial.com/sales/blu-ra...-life-for-free (social media share + download)

ATDrake · 07-18-2015, 02:41 PM

^

Just a heads-up in case one happens to like the Leawo Blu-Ray Player and were thinking of possibly getting the accompanying Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper (not free) as a means of backing up one's collection.

Last I heard, the ripper was itself ripped off from other currently-free-while-in-beta "tools"-like software which I'm not sure whether or not I can direct link or namedrop due to forum rules. But a Google search for the phrase "Scam alert - leawo blu-ray ripper" should probably bring it up.

To be fair, it's possible that things have changed over the past few years and they now make use of their own stuff for the ripper which they charge for. And quite probably the actual free player doesn't have such problematic origins.

ETA: They do now seem to have just a DVD Ripper (and no Blu-Ray version anymore) and a Media Converter Suite which takes care of the Blu-Ray stuff, so seems likely they've realized the error (or at least unsustainability of depending on 3rd-party external software) of their ways in the intervening years. But I will note that you can get equivalent or better "tools" openly offered for free for collection backup purposes if you're willing to take the time to learn how stuff works.

ETA 2: It seems the Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper is no longer sold via their .com site, but can still be found via the .org version. Here's an old sponsored ad-post from 2013 describing what else it was supposed to be able to do, much of which can be handled by free (and sometimes open-source) software.

I will note that the since the last time I tried it, the actual free Leawo Blu-Ray Player has added the nicety of being able to see and select from Blu-Ray disc menus, as well as setting the disc region, so it's probably worth getting if you don't want to mess around with making VLC Player talk to other software just to watch your BRDs and doing mystery meat navigation from the menubars to try and find the bit you wanted to see.

GtrsRGr8 · 07-18-2015, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koland

Repeat of offer last year from Leawo.

Also, on the blu-ray player software:

http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/ (direct download)

or

https://stacksocial.com/sales/blu-ra...-life-for-free (social media share + download)

Anyone who saw these offers before, please ignore my post.

hahah

GtrsRGr8 · 07-18-2015, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by booklover6

Welcome home, Monkey! Have a banana!

He's had too many bananas already. Rumor has it (I know, because I started it) that the way that he broke his foot is by slipping on one of the many peels that he left on the floor.

GtrsRGr8 · 07-18-2015, 11:05 PM

Title: The Gray and Guilty Sea: An Oregon Coast Mystery (Garrison Gage Series Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Mystery).
Author: Scott William Carter; Jack Nolte.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/1,288 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/86 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: /8 hours and 24 minutes.
Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...7274463&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Gray-Guilty-Se...SPQFTPAKJB2H42.
Comments: This is one of the best Whispersync deals on a highly rated non-public domain book that I've come across.

GtrsRGr8 · 07-19-2015, 05:32 PM

I just made a short Whispersync deal post on the "Cookbooks" thread. Reason for posting it there: a Mobilereader made a post there of the (marked down) ebook.

tubemonkey · 07-19-2015, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I just made a short Whispersync deal post on the "Cookbooks" thread. Reason for posting it there: a Mobilereader made a post there of the (marked down) ebook.

Any banana recipes in those books?

abqkjh · 07-19-2015, 05:37 PM

"Mary Roach is an author, specializing in popular science and humor. She has published six books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places, and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal."

Sale ends July 23rd at 11:59 PM PT

GtrsRGr8 · 07-20-2015, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Any banana recipes in those books?

Yes I have no bananas [or recipes, G.]
I have no bananas today
I have string beans and onions
Cabbages and scallions
And all kinds of fruit, and say

I have an old fashioned tomato
A Long Island potato
But yes I have no bananas
I have no bananas today

--Adapted from "Yes, We Have No Bananas."

sadievan · 07-20-2015, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Yes I have no bananas [or recipes, G.]
I have no bananas today
I have string beans and onions
Cabbages and scallions
And all kinds of fruit, and say

I have an old fashioned tomato
A Long Island potato
But yes I have no bananas
I have no bananas today

--Adapted from "Yes, We Have No Bananas."

That was a good one.

GtrsRGr8 · 07-21-2015, 01:46 AM

Title: The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics)
Genre: Fiction (novel).
Author: Anthony Trollope; Sophie Gilmartin (Editor).
Price: $5.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $38.47.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/5 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/95 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 932/30 hours and 33 minutes.
Narrator: Simon Vance.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/T...7455657&sr=1-4.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chronicle...K4F2RSY4XQ5H12.
Comments: The price shown ($32.95) at the webpage at Amazon for the audiobook at Audible apparently is incorrect--the link on the Amazon webpage takes you to a webpage at Audible which gives the regular price as $38.47.

TrevorViking · 07-21-2015, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Title: The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics)
Genre: Fiction (novel).
Author: Anthony Trollope; Sophie Gilmartin (Editor).
Price: $5.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $38.47.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/5 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/95 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 932/30 hours and 33 minutes.
Narrator: Simon Vance.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/T...7455657&sr=1-4.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chronicle...K4F2RSY4XQ5H12.
Comments: The price shown ($32.95) at the webpage at Amazon for the audiobook at Audible apparently is incorrect--the link on the Amazon webpage takes you to a webpage at Audible which gives the regular price as $38.47.

Might be a different narration, but there is a cheaper option. A $.99 Kindle version with $2.99 whispersync add-on.

issybird · 07-21-2015, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

Might be a different narration, but there is a cheaper option. A $.99 Kindle version with $2.99 whispersync add-on.

Amazon/Audible make it very difficult to see which audio version matches up with which ebook version. There's a free Kindle version that pairs with a $2.99 Flo Gibson audio, but people might well prefer the Timothy West or Simon Vance version (I would). Not only do they not disclose the matching Whispersync narrator, sometimes one ebook version will pair with more than one narration. It's a puzzlement.

But since I think most would want to get through the first five Barsetshire novels first, it's a decision that can be postponed.

GtrsRGr8 · 07-21-2015, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

Might be a different narration, but there is a cheaper option. A $.99 Kindle version with $2.99 whispersync add-on.

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

Amazon/Audible make it very difficult to see which audio version matches up with which ebook version. There's a free Kindle version that pairs with a $2.99 Flo Gibson audio, but people might well prefer the Timothy West or Simon Vance version (I would). Not only do they not disclose the matching Whispersync narrator, sometimes one ebook version will pair with more than one narration. It's a puzzlement.

But since I think most would want to get through the first five Barsetshire novels first, it's a decision that can be postponed.

Yeah, I'm sure that there's a different narrator. The one that I posted is the Penguin Classics edition, which is different from the other editions, too, because of who the editor is and what he or she may have contributed to the book. Sometimes the editor has written an introduction that is especially noteworthy. Occasionally, when the book is cheap, I will buy a classic that I already have, e.g., The Iliad, because the book has a very good introduction that I don't have in my other copies.

I share your frustration, issybird, with the difficulty in finding out which audio is matched with which edition. I've even thought about buying the ebook, and then returning it, just to be able to find out. For this Trollope book, I clicked on the link that said something like "Audible edition" under something like "other formats," on the Amazon webpage. That link took me to the Audible webpage that I referenced. In retrospect, I wonder if that is reliable. For Amazon's own good, I think that they should make it clear--if I can't find out exactly which narration that I'm getting, I might not buy the Whispersync narration, just hoping that I will like it, and I might not even buy the ebook to begin with.

I just thought of a way to find out which audio goes with an ebook. It's a hassle, but I think that it is surefire. I can listen to the audio sample on Amazon's webpage, and then listen to the samples on the Audible webpage which lists all of the editions, until I find one that matches the one that I heard on the webpage at Amazon. Like you said, "Amazon/Audible make it very difficult."

koland · 07-21-2015, 07:04 PM

The frustrating part is that they USED TO give you this info. Now, it is sometimes easier to start with the Audible page - but that depends on the type of membership you have, as they often don't display whispersync info for non-credit members now (I have two accounts, one with and one without and with a third browser not logged in, I often get different info on all three for the same audiobook).

Sometimes the Amazon page for the audiobook lists the Kindle edition that works with it (and sometimes not, which I've also run into). The Kindle book now pretty much never tells you, only that some random audio edition is synced to that particular ebook edition.

07-18-2015, 02:41 PM	#812
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	^ Just a heads-up in case one happens to like the Leawo Blu-Ray Player and were thinking of possibly getting the accompanying Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper (not free) as a means of backing up one's collection. Last I heard, the ripper was itself ripped off from other currently-free-while-in-beta "tools"-like software which I'm not sure whether or not I can direct link or namedrop due to forum rules. But a Google search for the phrase "Scam alert - leawo blu-ray ripper" should probably bring it up. To be fair, it's possible that things have changed over the past few years and they now make use of their own stuff for the ripper which they charge for. And quite probably the actual free player doesn't have such problematic origins. ETA: They do now seem to have just a DVD Ripper (and no Blu-Ray version anymore) and a Media Converter Suite which takes care of the Blu-Ray stuff, so seems likely they've realized the error (or at least unsustainability of depending on 3rd-party external software) of their ways in the intervening years. But I will note that you can get equivalent or better "tools" openly offered for free for collection backup purposes if you're willing to take the time to learn how stuff works. ETA 2: It seems the Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper is no longer sold via their .com site, but can still be found via the .org version. Here's an old sponsored ad-post from 2013 describing what else it was supposed to be able to do, much of which can be handled by free (and sometimes open-source) software. I will note that the since the last time I tried it, the actual free Leawo Blu-Ray Player has added the nicety of being able to see and select from Blu-Ray disc menus, as well as setting the disc region, so it's probably worth getting if you don't want to mess around with making VLC Player talk to other software just to watch your BRDs and doing mystery meat navigation from the menubars to try and find the bit you wanted to see. Last edited by ATDrake; 07-18-2015 at 04:36 PM.

07-18-2015, 11:05 PM	#815
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Whispersync Deal on The Gray and Guilty Sea--Now $1.99, Due to M/D to $0.00 on Ebook. Title: *The Gray and Guilty Sea: An Oregon Coast Mystery (Garrison Gage Series Book 1). Genre:* Fiction (Mystery). Author: Scott William Carter; Jack Nolte. Price: *$1.99* ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio). Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/1,288 reviews (Amazon). Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/86 ratings. Pages/Audio Length: /8 hours and 24 minutes. Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley. Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...7274463&sr=1-1. Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Gray-Guilty-Se...SPQFTPAKJB2H42. Comments: This is one of the best Whispersync deals on a highly rated non-public domain book that I've come across.

07-19-2015, 05:37 PM	#818
abqkjh Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 1502780 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Moto e5	Audible sale - 6 Mary Roach Titles for $4.95 each "Mary Roach is an author, specializing in popular science and humor. She has published six books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places, and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal." Sale ends July 23rd at 11:59 PM PT

07-21-2015, 01:46 AM	#821
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Audible $38.47; WS Deal with the Audio $5.48--Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset Title: The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics) Genre: Fiction (novel). Author: Anthony Trollope; Sophie Gilmartin (Editor). Price: $5.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.49 Whispersync audio). Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $38.47. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/5 reviews (Amazon). Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/95 ratings. Pages/Audio Length: 932/30 hours and 33 minutes. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/T...7455657&sr=1-4. Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chronicle...K4F2RSY4XQ5H12. Comments: The price shown ($32.95) at the webpage at Amazon for the audiobook at Audible apparently is incorrect--the link on the Amazon webpage takes you to a webpage at Audible which gives the regular price as $38.47.

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07-19-2015, 05:32 PM	#816
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I just made a short Whispersync deal post on the "Cookbooks" thread. Reason for posting it there: a Mobilereader made a post there of the (marked down) ebook.

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koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	The frustrating part is that they USED TO give you this info. Now, it is sometimes easier to start with the Audible page - but that depends on the type of membership you have, as they often don't display whispersync info for non-credit members now (I have two accounts, one with and one without and with a third browser not logged in, I often get different info on all three for the same audiobook). Sometimes the Amazon page for the audiobook lists the Kindle edition that works with it (and sometimes not, which I've also run into). The Kindle book now pretty much never tells you, only that some random audio edition is synced to that particular ebook edition.