Audible for dummies

AllTheGoodOnesAreTaken · 2022-04-02T12:12:53+00:00

Can someone explain to me how this works please? So I pay £7.99 a month and that gives me what exactly? How do I accrue credit?

Paranoidandroidmarvin · 02/04/2022 13:18

That will properly give u one credit a month for a book.
I do the yearly one. Which is about £109. Then u get 24 credits. But I go through mine fairly quickly and always have to top up. That way u can buy three more for £11 ish.
But I don’t watch tv or listen to music so my audiobooks are my thing.
Depends on how quick u will get through it. And wether u want to wait for the credit next month

Paranoidandroidmarvin · 02/04/2022 13:19

Only way to a mass credits on the £7.99 one is to not use them.

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AllTheGoodOnesAreTaken · 02/04/2022 17:04

I still don't understand, I'm sorry
So if I pay £7.99 for, what exactly am I paying for.
Is it a monthly fee just because, and then I pay £7.99 for each book I want to read?

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Serena1977 · 02/04/2022 17:09

£7.99 per month is for 1 credit. That 1 credit gets you 1 book. The credit appears on your account the same day each month, you can 'spend' it when you want. Once you have 'spent' the credit, the book appears in your library ready for you to click on it when you are ready to listen. You can listen to the book as many times as you want.

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AllTheGoodOnesAreTaken · 02/04/2022 17:42

Ah okay, so once I spend that credit, if I want another book, I have to pay another £7.99.
And the monthly £7.99 also gets me access to lots of books that I don't keep.
This right?

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Treecreature · 02/04/2022 17:45

7.99 gets you access to audibleplus which is like netflix, a rotating catalogue you can access but not keep. You also get to choose one book a month to keep. Extra credits are 3 for 20 quid if you want to keep more things. There are also many sales to keep an eye out for and a daily deal that is usually 1.99 or 2.99.

ApolloandDaphne · 02/04/2022 17:48

I access loads of the free books once I have used my credit for the month. There are many to choose from. So as I see it £7.99 gives me many books each month not just one.

User478 · 02/04/2022 17:50

If you say you're going to cancel they offer you 3 or 6 months at £3.99 (or similar)

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 02/04/2022 18:00

There's a fair amount of free stuff on Audible too, but basically your monthly fee gets you one book a month that you keep forever. You can have different payment schedules so that you can get more credits.

If you stop your Audible account you can still access the books that you have previously bought but if you have any unused credits you will lose them so always use your credits before you stop your account. When you stop your account they may offer you things to stay, like extra credits. I usually accept the extra credits, spend them and still stop my account. A couple of months after you've stopped your account they will email you with an offer, like half price for three months. You can't access the free stuff while your account is stopped.

I have a subscription to Scribd which operates on a Spotify model. I can listen/read as much as I want for a monthly fee but I don't own anything. Depending on what's going on in my life I can listen to 5 or 6 books a month with Scribd and I look at a lot of reference books too (usually quilting or crochet. I don't read the novels because I already have so many on my Kindle. There are fewer audiobooks on Scribd than there are on Audible but there is always something to listen to. Scribd rotates their stock so there is always new stuff appearing. If I want a particular author then I take up Audible's offer of a few half-price months to get those books.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 02/04/2022 18:02

All the audiobooks on Audible have different prices, so if you have spent your credit and want to buy another book you are better off buying more credits because the individual price can be over £20.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 02/04/2022 18:11

Also, sometimes if you buy a Kindle book on Amazon you can get the same book on Audible for a low price. There will be a little note about it under the Kindle price on the Amazon page. The combined price of Kindle book and Audible book can occasionally be less than the cost of a credit.

Clymene · 02/04/2022 18:12

Or for a cheaper (free!) option, if you have a library card, you can access your county's audio library catalogue and download as many books as you like. You can get electronic ones as well as audio ones.

Obviously you have to return them but who listens to audio books over and over again?

TeaStory · 02/04/2022 18:21

Obviously you have to return them but who listens to audio books over and over again?

I do…

MarianosOnHisWay · 02/04/2022 18:23

@TeaStory

Obviously you have to return them but who listens to audio books over and over again?

I do…

Me too

OP, the £7.99 a month works out well because you can then use than one credit to buy a book that would be £20+

Treecreature · 02/04/2022 18:28

If you do t listen more than once you'll never get the Deja Vu badge

Clymene · 02/04/2022 18:36

@TeaStory

Obviously you have to return them but who listens to audio books over and over again?

I do…

But then you can just get them out of the library again.

Genuinely don't understand why anyone would pay for stuff that's available for nothing!

sanityisamyth · 02/04/2022 18:50

@TeaStory

Obviously you have to return them but who listens to audio books over and over again?

I do…

My son does too! He's always listening to Harry Potter on Alexa!!

EssexLioness · 02/04/2022 18:51

I used to love my audible subscription, however I have just found the free audio books on Borrowbox, via my library membership. It is amazing and has loads of stuff. You can borrow several at a time and I now feel a fool for paying all this time! 😆 Have a look at what your library membership gets you instead of paying out.

TeaStory · 02/04/2022 20:00

@Clymene “But then you can just get them out of the library again. smile

Genuinely don't understand why anyone would pay for stuff that's available for nothing!”

Because the ones I like are really popular, and almost always have waiting lists.

Clymene · 02/04/2022 20:43

[quote TeaStory]@Clymene “But then you can just get them out of the library again. smile

Genuinely don't understand why anyone would pay for stuff that's available for nothing!”

Because the ones I like are really popular, and almost always have waiting lists.[/quote]
Fair enough

TeaStory · 02/04/2022 20:56

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 02/04/2022 21:09

It might be better in the UK but I tried the libraries here and there almost nothing in audiobooks that I wanted to listen to. Of the (maybe) three or four that I would be willing to give a try, all but one had at least an eight week wait. Whereas Scribd and Audible have plenty of books that I would like to hear and no waiting time at all.

Paranoidandroidmarvin · 03/04/2022 02:13

It also depends on ur subscription as to what extra credits will cost u. As I said I’m on the yearly plan and get my credits in one go. But extra credits only cost me roughly £3 for one extra credit. It really depends on how much u use it and what works for u.
I tried scribd but I like to re listen to books. Also. They don’t have the amount of books that audible have.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 03/04/2022 02:54

@EssexLioness

I used to love my audible subscription, however I have just found the free audio books on Borrowbox, via my library membership. It is amazing and has loads of stuff. You can borrow several at a time and I now feel a fool for paying all this time! 😆 Have a look at what your library membership gets you instead of paying out.

I've also just discovered Borrowbox, its amazing! Now if only I could work out how to get the ebooks on my kindle!

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AllTheGoodOnesAreTaken · 03/04/2022 07:02

Thank you everyone, that's really helpful.
I felt totally dumb not being able to make sense of how it works.
I am usually reasonably smart, ish.

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