Good morning! Friday! Glorious Friday! I am packing my bags for a cabin weekend with my friends Belinda, Sheila, Rhonda, and Farrah. We are going to do a little biking, a little hiking, and hanging out and catching up. I feel so behind, we are leaving in a couple of hours and I have yet to go and buy my groceries or clean out the jeep. But when I get moving – whew! I will be fast! 😀
Todays Audio Book Week discussion topic is:
Where do you learn about great audiobook titles? Buy your audiobooks? Share your secrets with the rest of us! We’d particularly love to know what narrators or publishers are active in social media or do a great job communicating with listeners.
I learn about great audio from other audio book lovers. Alison from Alison’s Bookmarks reads and enjoys books and audio very similar to my own taste. Occasionally we will chat about what we are listening too and what we recommend only to find out that whoever recommends it, the other has usually already listened to it. 😀 Kathy from Bermuda Onion is another audio book lover who reviews titles that have me adding to my list. By watching the blogs, googling for titles and/or reviews – I can usually find great audio to listen to.
If you are new to audio (first of all – AWESOME! You are going to love your new audible world! It will open up reading time you did not know you had! 😀 ), ok again… if you are new to audio (SQQQUUUEEE!!!!) then I recommend watching what people are saying about audio books you are considering. Not all audio is great audio. Shoot, some audio is not even good audio…. but find people who’s reviews you trust and seriously dig in. 😀
Where do I buy my audio? I am a BIG fan of audible.com. Audible has great audio that you download to your computer or smart phone and off you go. I use audible all the time – AND they have samples of each audio book (and ratings!) so you can listen before you buy. 😀 If you are new to audible.com they offer your first audio for free! That is huge – audio books can run between $20 – 50! If you are new to audible and want to try it I have a link on my right side bar – go and check it out!
Audible.com works by credits, you can purchase a credit (or two) a month that automatically comes off your credit card – but do not panic, this is not like old school Columbia House where you are committed to so much time or so many books – nope, you stop any time you wish. And your audible credit (which is good for one audio book of your choice) is so much less costly than purchasing an audio book from a store. I have used audible for three years now. For a little over a year I stuck to one credit a month – but then I moved up to 2 credits a month. I needed more audible 😀 AND for their members they have these great sales that are $4.95 audio books – or like now they have a two for one credit sale going on… which… I bought two audio books last night off that deal.
The last part of todays topic I have trouble answering because I do not know the answer. I do not have a lot of time for Facebook or Twitter so I do not really know who is on their. 😀
This is probably my final post for the weekend (unless I get a review in yet today!) I am leaving for the cabin and not taking lap top along. I have no internet service there so it is really a waste of time to try to connect places and a waste of space in my luggage. 😀 Hope you all have an awesome weekend – as I wrap up audio book week here, I want to once again tell you to give it a try. You may surprise yourself 😀
Book Journey 
It’s going to be an awesome weekend! I’m a little worried about breakfast tomorrow, but we will figure it out 🙂
B
Dont be – I can do the breakfast 😀
I just signed up for Audible last night! I wanted my husband to read Gone Girl, but I know he won’t actually read it, so I got it in audio version to listen to during dinner. 🙂
Perfect!
I use Downpour.com which is good too.
I will have to check that out! 😀
And I learn titles from you as well! I don’t think we’ll ever lack for books we want to read. Thanks for the shout out!
Sure 😀
I’ve gotten some audio ideas from what you’ve listened to…you always have so many going on.
Enjoy your weekend!
~Kristin @ Always With a Book
Oh good! 😀
I don’t think anyone buys audiobooks at the store anymore, do they?
I do occasionally but it has to be a really good deal 😀
I borrow my audiobooks through the library;
I do that too! 😀
I liked your review of audible. I just downloaded the app on my Iphone. When I saw how much money it was, I was unsure. I haven’t gotten super into audio, and with little money wasn’t sure if I wanted to give it a full try. I will be more open, though. Since the offerings sound better as a member. Do you get charged automatically, do you know? I should check.
Have fun this weekend!
Give it a try – stop any time. Its only $7.95 an audio at first isnt it? And yes, it will automatically come off your credit card each month until you tell it to stop.
Hope you’re having a great ‘unplugged’ weekend!
I did Leslie 😀
I borrow audio books from the library. I use CDs in the car and usually go with children’s titles as I listen with my kids and we have discovered some great series and authors this way. The narrator really does make a difference though. I recall loving A Wrinkle in Time, but when we listened to the version the library had, which was read by the author, my husband and I were both turned off by it. I listened to The Night Circus and it had the same reader as Harry Potter and I just kept thinking the voices sounded like Dumbledoor or someone else and that took me out of the story. Luckily my library also has audio books you can download to your computer or Ipod. I use that for books for me and just search through the titles for available books and look for ones I might be interested in. My family reads so much that I try to go for the least expensive way to get books as possible!
Loved the Harry Potter books on audio but struggled with the Night Circus on audio 🙂