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Scribd - Unlimited again
Scribd.com is going back to the Unlimited model, after 2 years on a credit system! This appears to include audibooks. This appears to me to be a result of Audible's unlimited package. I have been using the heck out of Audible since the day it went live. $6.95 for all I can listen is phenomenal. Not sure I can justify a second subscription, as I have hundreds in my Audible wish list. But I will be browsing!
Scribd.com Membership Details Access an unlimited* number of books, audiobooks, magazines, and more — all for only $8.99/month. Scribd’s Quest To Be “The Netflix Of Reading” Is Finally Paying Off Quote:
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02-06-2018, 12:46 PM | #2 |
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I expect I'll sign up for the free trial, at least. I know I had a trial membership way back, when they offered unlimited audiobooks, but I don't remember how it worked.
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02-06-2018, 02:47 PM | #3 |
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Anyone using this on an e-ink device? Curious how well it works. Considering the Icarus Illumina XL HD, but can't find much about how Scribd works with it.
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I have scribd. I'm just so excited to see this! I didn't like Audible Romance Package too many gaps in series.
I've been using scribds' credit system for awhile but now it's gone I can just listen to anything I was saving up for. This is great! Sent from my Nexus 7 |
02-07-2018, 12:49 PM | #5 |
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Blossom I'm interested to hear what your experience is in the coming months. How many you listen to in Feb and March, and if you run up against any restrictions.
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02-07-2018, 02:33 PM | #6 |
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FYI I was offered a 30 day free trial, even though I had been a paying member in the past. I took them up on it.
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02-07-2018, 03:29 PM | #7 |
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Scribd has several titles on my wish list. I may do the free trial after finishing my latest read.
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02-08-2018, 05:26 PM | #8 |
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I hadn't noticed this until now. Scribd has a ton from various series I am interested in that Audible Package is missing. Might be worth while for me to keep Scribd instead.
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I have details!
Started free trial Feb 07. Have listened to 3 complete titles. Have 2 titles downloaded but only started one. Having compulsively and obsessively been going over the books in the web site, I can say for a FACT that MANY books in my saved list (and unsaved also), all of a sudden are topped with a small banner that says "AVAILABLE SOON." For example just this morning I made a note of some Amanda Quick titles that were listed. Now every single audiobook by her in the catalog has the banner. Going to a completely different genre, I look up John Sandford, and 7 out of 49 audiobooks can be listened to now, the rest are "available soon." So I have been throttled already. What shows up for me in the searches has also changed. It doesn't show any of the "available now" titles. I have to search by author to find them. For example, Carla Neggars, in search, I see an ebook, and no audiobooks. Selecting sort by audiobooks, none. I click on her name, and there are 24. None available to me now. They were the other day. Last edited by booklover6; 02-16-2018 at 01:29 PM. |
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02-16-2018, 03:14 PM | #11 |
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Right? I am a little stunned that I ran into this so soon.
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Thanks for sharing! So your limit was five? You still have access to the 2 you downloaded?
I'm not too surprised. My theory was that the limits will be somewhere around the credits you used to be allowed to accumulate. Those were 3 audiobooks and 9 ebooks. |
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I am listening to one and have another downloaded, with wifi off. Nothing on the web site changed until I connected today once I'd finished #3 and downloaded #4. I will listen to the two downloaded before I connect again! I will report after that. I hope I can get one more this month.
Though to be fair, there are plenty of available books. It's just that I seem to be restricted from a lot of titles. I wonder when the limits end, by month or by subscription date? I'll keep track. ETA - It looks like everything I had in my Saved list is still available. (If true, then I have a hundred or more LOL). I added a new title to my saved list, and it says it will be available to me on 3/07/18, my date of service. Last edited by booklover6; 02-16-2018 at 04:02 PM. |
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Are you going to continue after your free trial? I wonder if the limits will be the same then.
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