FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[abqkjh]

Kobo is having a "June is Audiobook Month" sale. The banner says $4.99 or less / Sale ends June 17th

Sale Page

And they always have deals on their Audiobook Savings Page

[tubemonkey]

Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 13 Jun @ 7 AM ET

Week 7 -- What we assume about others can miss the truth about their situations by so much that we can become blinded to their reality. The pair of audiobooks available for you to download and keep for free this week, one an #OwnVoices title and performance and the other adapted from a Western classic, may put a check on our being too quick to assume we know how to value the intentions of others.

FREE -- An Enemy of the People -- Henrik Ibsen/ full cast -- 1.9 hrs -- drama

When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town’s livelihood in An Enemy of the People. Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording featuring: Rosalind Ayres as Catherine Stockman, Gregory Harrison as Peter Stockman, Richard Kind as Dr. Thomas Stockman, Alan Mandell as Morten Kill, Alan Shearman as Captain Horster, Jon Matthews as Billing, Josh Stamberg as Hovstad, Emily Swallow as Petra, Tom Virtue as Aslaksen. Additional voices by Sam Boeck, William Hickman, Adam Mondschein, Julia Coulter, and Jeff Gardner.

Includes an interview about the Deepwater Horizon, man-made environmental disasters, climate change, and the state of the world's water supply with Joel K. Bourne Jr., former senior environment writer for National Geographic.

Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in April of 2014.

An Enemy of the People is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

FREE -- A Girl Like That -- Tanaz Bhathena/ Firdous Bamji, et al -- 9.3 hrs -- relationships

In this young adult debut set in Saudi Arabia, where the law forbids romantic relationships outside of marriage, two teens fall in love, with tragic consequences. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: an Indian girl, a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a troublemaker whose romantic entanglements are the subject of endless gossip among the girls in her school. "You don't want to get involved with a girl like that," they say. So how is it that Porus, a Parsi boy, has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of the highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is called into question.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by WestCactus

Gr8, audible has a sale for past daily books. Watch for the sale.

Thank you! I don't remember ever hearing about them. Do you know where Audible posts notifications of these sales?

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thank you! I don't remember ever hearing about them. Do you know where Audible posts notifications of these sales?

They usually get posted here. Don't worry, the sale typically goes on for 5 days or longer.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- Peas and Queues -- Sandi Toksvig --> NF communication skills

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 07 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Dreadnought (book 1) -- April Daniels --> fantasy
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- The Terrible Two’s Last Laugh (book 4) -- Mac Barnett, et al --> humor
  
• eStories --> $2.99 -- What I Told My Daughter -- Nina Tassler, et al --> NF motivational

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Tarana

They usually get posted here. Don't worry, the sale typically goes on for 5 days or longer.

Thanks. I'll keep my eyes pealed for a post. I've never noticed a post about them before, but then again, I had never missed getting a daily deal audiobook that I wanted. So, the post wouldn't have stood out to me.

I have been meaning to scour the O.P. often, too, because t.m. has a lot of good stuff there that doesn't seem to have come from MobileReaders' posts--he's found the deals on his own.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

Kobo is having a "June is Audiobook Month" sale. The banner says $4.99 or less / Sale ends June 17th

Sale Page

And they always have deals on their Audiobook Savings Page

Thanks. I'll have to check out the deals.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it necessary to use a proprietary Kobo app to listen to their audiobooks? I've run out of space again on my cellphone, and actually spent quite a few minutes this morning trying to find ways to squeeze out a GB or two in order to install a different app than that one. I misplaced a card (micro SD?) that I bought, or I would have installed it already. Although they're relatively cheap now, so am I , and I don't want to buy another one, if I can help it.

Do you (or anyone else) know whether or not the Kobo audiobooks are stored on a Kobo cloud, or if they are stored on the cellphone? I wouldn't think that any audiobooks, other than perhaps those that are open, would be stored on the cellphone, but I just don't know.

[tubemonkey]

Audible -- Monthly Offer -- exp 04 Jul

• FREE -- Audible Originals for June --> choose 2 of 6 for free --> members only

Members pick two every month—no credits needed. A new selection available on the first Friday of every month.

Audible Originals are exclusive audio titles created by celebrated storytellers from worlds as diverse as theater, journalism, literature, and more, all produced in the Audible studios. Members can now select 2 of 6 featured Audible Originals every month, in addition to 1 audiobook, regardless of price, plus unlimited access to premier audio fitness programs. There’s never been a better time to join the listening revolution!

• Alien III (series) -- William Gibson
  
• You Do You -- Tan France, et al
  
• Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues (book 2.5) -- Molly Harper
  
• Jukebox Joyride -- Jacob Stein, et al
  
• Olio Live -- Tyehimba Jess
  
• The Dead Drink First -- Dale Maharidge

[TrevorViking]

^ Sweet! As usual, all six were free pre-orders in the last month or so.

[WestCactus]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thank you! I don't remember ever hearing about them. Do you know where Audible posts notifications of these sales?

I usually see it from an email, here or a banner on their page. I’ll post a reminder when it comes up. Usually once a year and should be coming soon if my memory has it correct.

[abqkjh]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks. I'll have to check out the deals.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it necessary to use a proprietary Kobo app to listen to their audiobooks? I've run out of space again on my cellphone, and actually spent quite a few minutes this morning trying to find ways to squeeze out a GB or two in order to install a different app than that one. I misplaced a card (micro SD?) that I bought, or I would have installed it already. Although they're relatively cheap now, so am I , and I don't want to buy another one, if I can help it.

Do you (or anyone else) know whether or not the Kobo audiobooks are stored on a Kobo cloud, or if they are stored on the cellphone? I wouldn't think that any audiobooks, other than perhaps those that are open, would be stored on the cellphone, but I just don't know.

Sorry, I haven't purchased any audiobooks from them yet - so I am interested in this answer also. And if you have to have the app - What is the format? Can you transfer it to your PC?

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

Sorry, I haven't purchased any audiobooks from them yet - so I am interested in this answer also. And if you have to have the app - What is the format? Can you transfer it to your PC?

The kobo.com help site says the files are MP3 or MP4 (I suspect depending on whether you use the Android or the iOS app).

If so, I don't understand why the app is required.

I haven't gotten beyond that in my research, because if I can't back it up to use where I like, I'm not buying audiobooks from them.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

Sorry, I haven't purchased any audiobooks from them yet - so I am interested in this answer also. And if you have to have the app - What is the format? Can you transfer it to your PC?

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

The kobo.com help site says the files are MP3 or MP4 (I suspect depending on whether you use the Android or the iOS app).

If so, I don't understand why the app is required.

I haven't gotten beyond that in my research, because if I can't back it up to use where I like, I'm not buying audiobooks from them.

I don't know if this is still true, because it's been a while, but using an old version of the app (I had version 8.2.1.22424), the download was non-DRM mp3 files. I believe the files downloaded without a file extension, but all I had to do was add .mp3 and they opened just fine when transferred to my mp3 player.

When I tried using a newer version of the app, the downloaded files were DRMed and could only be played in the app.

You can probably find the older version by Googling, and then try downloading a free or sample book from Kobo to see if it still works.

[tubemonkey]

Google Audio -- Top Free Audiobooks -- exp unknown

• FREE -- The Art of War (ver 3) -- Sun Tzu --> NF military
  
• FREE -- The Art of War (ver 4) -- Sun Tzu --> NF military
  
• FREE -- The Science of Being Great -- Wallace D Wattles --> NF self-help