FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

If anyone out there decides to jump thru the hoops, can you let me know if you receive an email verifying your "purchase." If I continue to participate, I will want to re-record a DRM free mp3 copy. But I will only do that if I have an email confirming I obtained the book lawfully.

Thanks

No email.

[abqkjh]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

No email.

Thanks, looks like I'm out from now on.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

Thanks, looks like I'm out from now on.

I bet the publishers are behind the change from DRM-Free MP3s to app only.

[skinmaan]

Attention Canadians - free audiobooks for you! Available through June 28.

https://www.audible.ca/ep/listen-with-giller

Includes:

• A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry (1995)
• Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (1996)
• Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler (1997)
• Runaway, Alice Munro (2004)
• Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden (2008)
• The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud (2010)
• 419, Will Ferguson (2012)
• Hellgoing, Lynn Coady (2013)
• Us Conductors, Sean Michaels (2014)
• Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis (2015)

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I bet the publishers are behind the change from DRM-Free MP3s to app only.

...and yet I bet I can buy most or all of these books from Downpour, Libro.fm, or Audiobooks.com. For Sync, DRM now stands for "Don't Remind Me."

[tubemonkey]

Audible -- exp unknown

This is a weekly episodic book with new episodes added every Friday. Eight episodes are planned for this series. So far, three episodes have been released.


FREE -- Human Touch (8 episodes) -- Mitch Albom -- ~30 min/chapter -- literary -- ebook

Human Touch (author's website)

From internationally bestselling author Mitch Albom comes Human Touch, a fictional yet ripped-from-the-headlines story about how lives intersect in a small Michigan town amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. Human Touch is a story being told in real time, to be published in weekly installments that will automatically be added to your library each week until the story’s conclusion.

As the COVID-19 virus takes root in America, a once neighborly street corner of four families begins to fray. A tradition of Saturday gatherings unravels into mistrust and distance. Self-protection dominates over kindness. Only eight-year-old Little Moses seems immune to what is happening around him, and continues to spread his own brand of joy and comfort. As people in the neighborhood become sick and begin to self-isolate, he secretly visits them, offering hugs and longed-for physical contact. When his mother reveals a long-held secret about him—that his blood somehow protects him against all illness—Little Moses draws quick attention from several sources, both good and bad. And then he disappears.

A note from the author: “By making this story available for free to all, I’m hoping to inspire donations to my foundation, SAY Detroit—specifically for a project called ‘Detroit Beats COVID-19’ to help poor families and first responders fight the virus in my hometown of Detroit, which has become one of the nation's hot spots for the outbreak. To find out more, visit humantouchstory.com or saydetroit.org.”

New installments will automatically be added to your library each week until the story’s conclusion.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 01 May @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- Thomas Cromwell -- Diarmaid MacCulloch -- NF biography

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Daily Deals -- exp 01 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible ---> TBA ---- Ascend Online (book 1) -- Luke Chmilenko -- sci-fi
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> TBA

[tubemonkey]

Alexa UK -- Monthly Rentals -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm BST

Alexa, what's free from Audible?

We have some exciting news for Alexa users. Each month we will offer a selection of brilliant audiobooks you'll be able to listen to for free on your Alexa device. Browse this month's selection below.

Just say 'Alexa, read (book)' -- streaming only

• FREE -- Orlando -- Virginia Woolf/ Clare Higgins -- 8.6 hrs -- classic
  
• FREE -- Middlemarch -- George Eliot/ Maureen O'Brien -- 32.4 hrs -- classic
  
• FREE -- North and South -- Elizabeth Gaskell/ Juliet Stevenson -- 18.3 hrs -- classic

Synopses

• Spoiler:

  Orlando
  
  Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.
  
  The book opens with Orlando as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who finds love with a Russian princess. During Charles II's reign, he is an ambassador to Constantinople and becomes a Duke. Orlando then goes on to wake as a beautiful woman, exploring the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Eventually becoming a wife and mother the tale ends in the year 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Upon plans to publish her 1588 poem 'The Oak Tree', written in the opening of the book, she reflects on her centuries of adventure.
  
  An exploration of androgyny and the creative life of a woman, it is considered a feminist work. Arguably one of Woolf's most popular stories, it marked a turning point in her career, departing from her more introspective works. Receiving both critical and financial success, it guaranteed Woolf's financial stability.
  
  There have been many adaptations made, including a 1992 film starring Tilda Swinton and an opera by composer Peter Aderhold which premiered at the Braunschweig State Theatre in in 2016.

  Middlemarch
  
  George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.
  
  Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
  
  As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'. Middlemarch explores nearly all matters of concern to modern life, portraying an entire community and every class within it. Full of irony and suspense and even richer in character it shows how individual lives are shaped by and shape the community. Within Middlemarch, we find Eliot's ability to expand the audience's compassion and imagination.
  
  George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. When Middlemarch was released Eliot was considered England's finest living novelist with many critics still regarding this novel as the finest in English.

  North and South
  
  Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion; it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern, and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature.
  
  When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire and move with her family to the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Though at first disgusted by her new surroundings, she witnesses the brutality wrought by the Industrial Revolution and becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers. Sympathetic to the poor she makes friends among them and develops a fervent sense of social justice. She clashes with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, who is contemptuous of his workers. However, their fierce opposition masks a deeper attraction.
  
  Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. She was an accomplished writer, much of her work published in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words including North and South which was originally published as a serial. She was also friends with Charlotte Brontë and after her death, her father, Patrick Brontë, chose Gaskell to write The Life of Charlotte Brontë.

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[tubemonkey]

Alexa -- Monthly Rental -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm PT

Alexa, what's free from Audible? -- streaming only

to find out which top Audible title is free for listening on Alexa this month.

FREE -- Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs -- Ben Garrod/ B Garrod -- 2.7 hrs -- NF science

Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue twisting names, picking favorites based on ferocity, armor, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favorite.

For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct.

They are at the same time familiar and mysterious. And yet we’re in an age of rapid discovery—new dinosaur species and genera are being discovered at an accelerating rate, we’re learning more about what they looked like, how they lived, how they evolved and where they all went.

This series isn’t just a top trumps list of dino facts—we’re interested in the why and the how and like all areas of science there is plenty of controversy and debate.

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[tubemonkey]

christianaudio -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm ET


FREE -- Don't Give Up -- Kyle Idleman/ Kyle Idleman -- 6.0 hrs

Faith That Gives You the Confidence to Keep Believing and the Courage to Keep Going

The parent with the wayward child. The couple whose marriage is in jeopardy. The man who is out of work. The woman stuck in crushing debt. The patient with a bad diagnosis. The student who can't get a fair shake. People hanging by a thread, losing faith, and short on strength. What do they all need to hear?

Don't give up.

Our lives are minefields of challenges that take their toll on our courage, our conviction, and even our faith. But God whispers to the weary, Don't give up. Drawing from inspiring biblical stories and first-person testimonies of perseverance, best-selling author and pastor Kyle Idleman encourages listeners to cast their concerns on God, trust in his love and timing, pray for patience and strength, and seek out support in the family of God.

Other Related Audiobooks Are Only $4.98! (4 titles)

• Not Forsaken -- Louie Giglio -- 6.3 hrs
  
• Grace Is Greater -- Kyle Idleman -- 4.5 hrs
  
• Glimpses of Grace -- Gloria Furman -- 5.7 hrs
  
• Laughing at the Days to Come -- Tessa Thompson -- 7.2 hrs

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[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 02 May @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- Dirty Little Secrets -- Jo Spain -- thriller

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Libro.fm -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm ET

Welcome to the Kiss Club! The Kiss Club features great romance audiobooks each month for only $3.99 each! It’s free to join and there’s no monthly commitment!

$3.99 -- Kiss Club (9 titles)

• Bliss -- Lynsay Sands
  
• Twisted -- Cynthia Eden
  
• Winter Garden -- Adele Ashworth
  
• The Pirate Bride -- Sandra Hill
  
• Disorderly Conduct -- Tessa Bailey
  
• The Untamed Bride -- Stephanie Laurens
  
• Marrying Winterborne -- Lisa Kleypas
  
• Sex and the Single Vampire -- Katie MacAlister
  
• Ever After at Sweetheart Ranch -- Emma Cane

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Audiobooks.com -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm PT


FREE -- VIP Rewards -- choose 1 of 65 for free -- members only

What is it?
In addition to your monthly credit, members (including customers in their free trial!) enjoy the benefits of our VIP Rewards program, choosing from an exclusive selection of books to download for FREE, every month. That’s right, extra listening for no extra fee!

How do I get it?
Sign up for an Audiobooks.com free trial to get started. Then you’ll be able to browse this month’s special VIP Rewards and make your selection from the VIP Rewards area of the Audiobooks.com app or here on the website. VIP Rewards audiobooks refresh on the first day of every month, at which point you’ll be able to browse the new selection and choose how you’d like to use your credit. All of your VIP Rewards audiobooks will remain in your library as long as you remain a member. It’s our way of saying thanks for being a member!

What do I get?
Enjoy extra listening every month with your exclusive Audiobooks.com VIP Rewards! Start now by browsing this month's selection:

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Audiobooks.com -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm PT


2-for-1 Audiobook Sale -- members only

• 2-for-1 Literary (81 titles)
  
• 2-for-1 Horror (67 titles)
  
• 2-for-1 Cooking (17 titles)
  
• 2-for-1 Social Science (44 titles)