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I gather that if you pay around $15 a month for audible, you get a free download? Who here uses audible and what are your thoughts on it?
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Only if you use it consistently. I find that I use it most at different times of the year. For example, I listen to Audible when cutting the grass and driving alone. Pre-covid I would have to drive far or fly for work so it was an extra benefit at that time. Some of my seminary books are on Audible so I like listening to them. Nothing can compare to reading the version for depth of understanding. You may find your mind drifting when listening for extended periods of time. Audible links with some Kindle books, so you can pick up reading where you left off listening. Overall, I find it great, especially listening to novels I typically wouldn't pick up and read cover to cover.
I gather that if you pay around $15 a month for audible, you get a free download? Who here uses audible and what are your thoughts on it?
I usually subscribe when there's something I want and unsubscribe until I finish it if it's a large book. But last month I'm pretty sure they were offering a deal where it's like $8 a month for four months so I went ahead and re-subscribed for that time frame. I don't know if it's still being offered but you might check. They also gave me an extra credit for Christmas. I personally think it's a great resource but don't know if I'd be willing to spend more than $10 a month on it. Even that's a stretch when so much is free to listen to.
Yeah that must be it. That might even be cheaper than when I saw it. There's a nice bonus to premium plus where you can listen to a decent amount of audible titles for free as well. So in theory you could subscribe, attack the freebies for the entirety of the three months and then listen to the books you have to buy with credits after you're no longer premium plus if you decided to unsubscribe. When unsubscribed you lose the free stuff but keep the books you purchased with credits.Is this it?
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Right now, I am working through Thomas's Summa, which is excellently narrated, and about to begin Plato's Socratic Dialogues.I gather that if you pay around $15 a month for audible, you get a free download? Who here uses audible, and what are your thoughts on it?
Yeah that must be it. That might even be cheaper than when I saw it. There's a nice bonus to premium plus where you can listen to a decent amount of audible titles for free as well. So in theory you could subscribe, attack the freebies for the entirety of the three months and then listen to the books you have to buy with credits after you're no longer premium plus if you decided to unsubscribe. When unsubsribed you lose the free stuff but keep the books you purchased with credits.
I've grown to like the robot voice on my Kindle dx. It's featured as "experimental", but it works. I've used it to read out pdfs while on the road. Does fine with any books I put on it, too.
The only drawback is if your pdf has footers or headers on each page, you get to hear those, too. File names and dates, etc.
Any text. Even scanned Pdfs, if OCR has been done.Does this work on Kindle or other formats? I've looked for a text-to-voice reader for the vast amount of material not available on Audible.