FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Seems to me that if you're in bed listening, you're probably already tired, and there's nothing you need to look at, so you close your eyes. So it seems quite likely that you'd fall asleep.

Of course, but a long night-time drive makes me tired and sleepy as well. I was quite surprised to discover that audiobooks--even the old favorites that put me right to sleep-- have an opposite effect on me during road trips. I was a afraid I'd be like Mack the truck in "Cars"...

Originally Posted by copyrite

I tend to listen to old favorites to take my mind off other things when I have trouble sleeping. I hate having to find my place, especially when it's a Whispersync title I plan to read next on my Kindle! My current relisten is "As You Wish", the behind the scenes book about The Princess Bride film.

Was that by Carey Elwes? I seem to recall he made a behind-the-scenes documentary.

[badgoodDeb]

Yes; I've read the "As You Wish" book, and loved it. I bought the CD too, because his versions of speaking like some of the other actors is said to be hilarious!

Librivox: I've enjoyed all of the Sherlock Holmes I got there.

Driving: Yes, it not only keeps me awake, but chews up the miles so that I don't notice how long I've been on the road. (I still stop every 2 hours to pee and avoid blood clots.) I can do an 8 hr drive and hardly notice it, when I'm listening to an audiobook!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by melmac

Get 2 books for 1 credit
A large selection from popular series by Michael Connelly, J. D. Robb, Diana Gabaldon, and more. Sale ends October 17, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT (US).

https://www.audible.com/sp/2for1

Includes Harry Bosch series book 1-15
JD Robb In Death series book 1-40
Agatha Raisin book 1-25
plus others

Thanks - added to OP

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by issybird

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I'm doing a lot of audiobooks and I never knew they were such a soporific.

I've noticed that they're also good for putting you to sleep. 

[copyrite]

Originally Posted by ApK

Was that by Carey Elwes? I seem to recall he made a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Yes..with guest appearances. It was an Audible daily deal more than once.



from my Galaxy S6

[Debi]

Just an FYI:

I made a purchase through the 2 for 1 series sale a bit ago and the books did not show up in my library.

At the same time I picked up the free The Dispatcher which immediately showed up in my library.

I called C S and was told that there was a "known issue" that was causing the books not to appear and they were working to resolve the issue. Waiting for an e-mail to let me know the issue is resolved before I purchase any other audiobooks from the sale.

Hold on to those order numbers if you buy anything.

[AnemicOak]

Another Audible freebie (you may already have it as it's been free before)...

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/F...ok/B002V5CUHI/

Publisher's Summary

The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.

Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival. The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long.

Just think that in 1961 a single transistor cost $10; now Intel's latest chip has two billion transistors and sells for $300 (or 0.000015 cents per transistor - effectively too cheap to price). The traditional economics of scarcity just don't apply to bandwidth, processing power, and hard-drive storage. Yet this is just one engine behind the new Free, a reality that goes beyond a marketing gimmick or a cross-subsidy.

Anderson also points to the growth of the reputation economy; explains different models for unleashing the power of Free; and shows how to compete when your competitors are giving away what you're trying to sell.

In Free, Chris Anderson explores this radical idea for the new global economy and demonstrates how this revolutionary price can be harnessed for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Another Audible freebie (you may already have it as it's been free before)...

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/F...ok/B002V5CUHI/

This is actually a permafreebie. You can also get it at iTunes and Noisetrade.

[AnemicOak]

Ahh, my bad, didn't know that.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Ahh, my bad, didn't know that.

Reminders never hurt (unless you type on the keyboard too hard).

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 13 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Phantoms -- Dean Koontz/ Buck Schirner --> 14.7 hrs/ R-4.0 --> horror

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£1.99)

Closer...
They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

...and closer...
At first, they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease.

...and closer...
But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 13 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$4.95 -- Full Dark, No Stars -- Stephen King/ Craig Wasson, et al --> 14.9 hrs/ R-4.1 --> various

Whispersync: Audible ($4.95) | Kindle ($8.99)

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In "Big Driver", a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

"Fair Extension", the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than 20 years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.

Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Ahh, my bad, didn't know that.

Hey, Anemic -- I love your Halloween avatar!

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 13 Oct

$4.99 -- Opposite of Everyone -- Joshilyn Jackson/ J Jackson --> 11.6 hrs/ R-4.4 --> contemp

The Opposite of Everyone

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($9.99)

A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and gods in Alabama—an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to shape and transform our lives.

Born in Alabama, Paula Vauss spent the first decade of her life on the road with her free-spirited young mother, Kai, an itinerant storyteller who blended Hindu mythology with southern oral tradition to re-invent their history as they roved. But everything, including Paula's birth name Kali Jai, changed when she told a story of her own—one that landed Kai in prison and Paula in foster care. Separated, each holding secrets of her own, the intense bond they once shared was fractured.

These days, Paula has reincarnated herself as a tough-as-nails divorce attorney with a successful practice in Atlanta. While she hasn't seen Kai in fifteen years, she's still making payments on that Karmic debt—until the day her last check is returned in the mail, along with a mysterious note: "I am going on a journey, Kali. I am going back to my beginning; death is not the end. You will be the end. We will meet again, and there will be new stories. You know how Karma works."

Then Kai's most treasured secret literally lands on Paula's doorstep, throwing her life into chaos and transforming her from only child to older sister. Desperate to find her mother before it's too late, Paula sets off on a journey of discovery that will take her back to the past and into the deepest recesses of her heart. With the help of her ex-lover Birdwine, an intrepid and emotionally volatile private eye who still carries a torch for her, this brilliant woman, an expert at wrecking families, now has to figure out how to put one back together—her own.

The Opposite of Everyone is a story about story itself, how the tales we tell connect us, break us, and define us, and how the endings and beginnings we choose can destroy us . . . and make us whole. Laced with sharp humor and poignant insight, it is beloved New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson at her very best.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 14 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Rise of the Robots -- Martin Ford/ Jeff Cummings --> 10.3 hrs/ R-4.5 --> technology

The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015.

In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery and is soon to do the same for radiologists. And that, no doubt, will only be the beginning.

In Silicon Valley the phrase disruptive technology is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may need only a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?

Rise of the Robots is a both an exploration of this new technology and a call to arms to address its implications. Written by a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, this is an audiobook that cannot be dismissed as the ranting of a Luddite or an outsider. Ford has seen the future, and he knows that for some of us, the rise of the robots will be very frightening indeed.