FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 16 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing -- Bob Mortimer, et al --> NF memoir

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Not one to listen to when you go nighty-night.

Why do you say that? Or are you being sarcastic? I listed to a minute of the sample and started nodding off....that narrator is a big snooze! He sounds like a voice-over to the school movies I saw in the 60s.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Why do you say that? Or are you being sarcastic? I listed to a minute of the sample and started nodding off....that narrator is a big snooze! He sounds like a voice-over to the school movies I saw in the 60s.

Not sarcastic.

I based what I said upon the description of the content, which I read completely. I forgot that I was dealing with an audio book, though, and not a book! I suppose that some narrators could make even books like Helter Skelter (a book about Charles Manson and his "family," and the horrendous, gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders that they committed) seem dry and boring.

But that prompts the question, "why would the author, or publisher, or whoever choose a dry narrator for an audio book such as the one that is the subject of our discussion?"

Lesson learned--as far as an audio book is concerned, I've got to remember to base my opinion on the narration as well as the content.

Still, I'm that sure that I'd fall asleep faster to some audio book, or even podcast, about Aristotle, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Hume, or Ayn Rynd, than our audio book under discussion, regardless of how good the narrator might be. And Anne of Green Gables is guaranteed to do it even faster, no matter how good the narrator might be.

Thanks for the lesson learned.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 16 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Six Sacred Swords (book 1) -- Andrew Rowe --> fantasy
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> TBA

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 17 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• £1.99 -- Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse -- David Mitchell --> comedy

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 17 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $5.95 -- Chemistry and Our Universe -- The Great Courses --> NF chemistry
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> TBA

* Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 18 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen --> classic

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 18 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Sea Stories -- William H McRaven --> NF memoir
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> TBA

* Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

[Catlady]

Through December 9, Audible is offering members a deal on a one-year gift membership: $120 (which works out to $10/credit). Recipient can be an existing member; there's nothing to indicate whether one can or can't gift oneself.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Through December 9, Audible is offering members a deal on a one-year gift membership: $120 (which works out to $10/credit). Recipient can be an existing member; there's nothing to indicate whether one can or can't gift oneself.

I noticed that if it's to an existing member, all the credits load at once and the membership term isn't extended.

The gift membership deal for non-members is for $150, which is still a decent discount.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by issybird

I noticed that if it's to an existing member, all the credits load at once and the membership term isn't extended.

I'm not sure what you're saying.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Through December 9, Audible is offering members a deal on a one-year gift membership: $120 (which works out to $10/credit). Recipient can be an existing member; there's nothing to indicate whether one can or can't gift oneself.

Is Audible offering a discount on the 1, 3, and 6 month gift memberships for members?

thanks

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Is Audible offering a discount on the 1, 3, and 6 month gift memberships for members?

thanks

No, the page in the link shows those at $15/credit.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

No, the page in the link shows those at $15/credit.

thanks

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I'm not sure what you're saying.

The gift to an existing member gives them 12 credits immediately. For someone with a monthly credit, they'll still have to maintain their membership of a credit or month if they want to remain active, and for someone who's got a membership where they got their credits upfront, their membership will still renew on its old renewal date. In other words, for an existing member, it's a years worth of credits, but it's not a year's worth of membership.