FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[ApK]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

You need an account of some sort. Either a current one or a former one. I'm a former member. I had a trial membership and then cancelled.

I may be mistaken, but I think if you use the Audiobooks.com Android app, you can just go to the "browse" or "featured free books" sections and download to your device without any sort of account or login, then you can transfer the mp3 files from the app's data folder to anywhere you want.

Can anyone else confirm this? (It works for me, but I may have set up an account a long time ago and forgotten.)

ApK

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I've been seeing the posts about Audiobooks.com's free audiobooks. It seems that to get them free (streaming or download) I have to accept a 30-day trial. Is this correct?

Originally Posted by ApK

I may be mistaken, but I think if you use the Audiobooks.com Android app, you can just go to the "browse" or "featured free books" sections and download to your device without any sort of account or login, then you can transfer the mp3 files from the app's data folder to anywhere you want.

Can anyone else confirm this? (It works for me, but I may have set up an account a long time ago and forgotten.)

ApK

GtrsRGr8, try ApKs method and see if it works for you.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

GtrsRGr8, try ApKs method and see if it works for you.

Thanks. I not only do not have Android, I don't even have a smartphone.
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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks. I not only do not have Android, I don't even have a smartphone.
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Then you'll have to do the PC option by setting up an account. See this post for a possible two free audiobooks offer. Don't know if it's still valid. At least you'll be able to get one free book.

Watch the Black Friday thread for some really cheap no-contract phone offers that'll get you an Android platform and something to listen to audiobooks on.

[wawasteele]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Then you'll have to do the PC option by setting up an account. See this post for a possible two free audiobooks offer. Don't know if it's still valid.

It was valid as of this morning when I used it to sign up.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by wawasteele

It was valid as of this morning when I used it to sign up.

Cool -- for anyone else interested, here's that offer:

• 30 day free trial (2 books) --> using promo code "HOP2" --> details

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audiobooks.com -- today's free audiobook is The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

Edit: this is a LibriVox recording
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You know, maybe I'm just too picky, but if audiobooks.com wants to impress me with their freebie on the day offerings they might want to not use free podcasts, Librivox titles, or other stuff I can get free all the time elsewhere. That's why I stopped visiting AmblingBooks.com - all the "free" offerings were Librivox.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

You know, maybe I'm just too picky, but if audiobooks.com wants to impress me with their freebie on the day offerings they might want to not use free podcasts, Librivox titles, or other stuff I can get free all the time elsewhere. That's why I stopped visiting AmblingBooks.com - all the "free" offerings were Librivox.

I hear ya

[ApK]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

You know, maybe I'm just too picky, but if audiobooks.com wants to impress me with their freebie on the day offerings they might want to not use free podcasts, Librivox titles, or other stuff I can get free all the time elsewhere.

I think audiobooks.com is only claiming to 'feature' one of the books from their free section, as opposed to last July when they offered a free book each day.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by ApK

I think audiobooks.com is only claiming to 'feature' one of the books from their free section, as opposed to last July when they offered a free book each day.

...and that is where I get confused. I've never seen a "free" section over at ABC. Is there somewhere I can go to see their regularly-free titles? I would actually like to look through that.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

...and that is where I get confused. I've never seen a "free" section over at ABC. Is there somewhere I can go to see their regularly-free titles? I would actually like to look through that.

In the Android app, it shows up on the startup page and as the first category on the Browse menu. Weird that it's organized so differently on the PC and the mobile.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Then you'll have to do the PC option by setting up an account. See this post for a possible two free audiobooks offer. Don't know if it's still valid. At least you'll be able to get one free book.

Watch the Black Friday thread for some really cheap no-contract phone offers that'll get you an Android platform and something to listen to audiobooks on.

Thanks. You're awesome.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by ApK

In the Android app, it shows up on the startup page and as the first category on the Browse menu. Weird that it's organized so differently on the PC and the mobile.

As Paul Harvey used to say, "...and now you know - the rest of the story." It turns out all of the free offerings of the day are always free. So much for their "generosity" this time. I know you're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth but - too late.

[GtrsRGr8]

My posting of this book does not necessarily indicate my agreement with any positions taken in it. In fact, I saw a revised edition of a book by Barak Obama, marked down, recently and considered posting it (I may yet do it if it is still marked down). I will post ebooks across the political spectrum.

Title: Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Politics).
Author(s): Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/102 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.6/195 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 347/12 hours and 5 minutes.
Narrator(s): Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction...3166758&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Real-Dissent-L...owable+Opinion.
Comments: The ebook is the #1 seller in the Kindle store in a subgenre. Oddly, to me, that subgenre is not Politics, but United States History.
Book Description (Amazon):
WITH A FOREWORD BY RON PAUL

Nothing makes traditional left and right kiss and make up faster than when they're faced with an articulate libertarian. Avert your eyes from this dangerous extremist, citizen! Government is composed of wise public servants who innocently pursue the common good!

In Real Dissent, Tom Woods demolishes some of the toughest critics of libertarianism in his trademark way. In doing so he strays beyond what he calls the index card of allowable opinion, the narrow range within which the media and political classes permit debate to take place in America.

Should 40% or 35% of our income be taxed? That's the kind of debate the New York Times prefers. Should our income be taxed at all? Now that's out of bounds, citizen!

In foreign policy, Americans are permitted to choose between bombing a despised country or starving its people to death. You favor peace? Why, you must be an "extremist"!

On the Federal Reserve, the debate is over which policy the Fed should pursue. But what if the Fed is itself the problem? No answer, because the question isn't raised.

Real Dissent is organized into ten parts:

Part I: War and Propaganda
Part II: Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism
Part III: Libertarianism Attacked, and My Replies
Part IV: Ron Paul and Forbidden Truths
Part V: End the Fed
Part VI: History and Liberty
Part VII: When Libertarians Go Wrong [on people who don't quite get their own philosophy]
Part VIII: Books You May Have Missed
Part IX: Talking Liberty: Selected Tom Woods Show Interviews
Part X: Back to Basics
Afterword: How I Evaded the Gatekeepers of Approved Opinion

The index card of allowable opinion forces Americans into narrow and pointless debates, and closes off discussion of plausible and humane alternatives. For the sake of American liberty, it’s time we set that thing on fire.

This book is a match.

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: The Dream Keeper (The Dream Keeper Chronicles Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Children's Fantasy).
Author(s): Mikey Brooks.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/33 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.2/15 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 302/8 hours and 43 minutes.
Narrator(s): Anthony Blanco.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Kids/The-D...3167982&sr=1-4.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Keeper-C...cles+Book+1%29
Comments: This book is recommended for grade levels 4-12 and age level 8-18.
Book Description (Amazon):
Dreams: Dorothy called it Oz, Alice called it Wonderland, but Nightmares call it HOME.

When an evil shifter takes over the gateway to the realm of Dreams, it falls to 14-year-olds Parker and Kaelyn to stop him. Their only hope lies with Gladamyr, the Dream Keeper, but can they trust a Nightmare to save their world?