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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3956911" data-attributes="member: 41321">Oh, I've been using Audible for years.  It's wonderful!  I started when I got my first real "career" job and had to drive two hours a day to work and back (still living at my parents' house).  Audible had a decent selection and their books were about the same price as a hardcover, which was tons cheaper than buying the physical CDs.  They're cheaper still if you get a subscription.After I had been buying books one at a time from them for a while they had an offer where they were giving away a free iPod shuffle with a year's subscription.  The total price of the subscription was about what I would've paid for the iPod, had I bought it at the store, so I decided it was a pretty awesome deal.  I got my iPod, and ever since then I've been on and off the subscription plan (I unsubscribe when I have so many books that I can't possibly listen to them fast enough, then subscribe again when I'm done listening to those I have).Now that I don't have a commute to speak of, I still listen to my audiobooks all the time with my iPod.  It really makes routine housekeeping chores more pleasant.  My boyfriend, Awayfarer, thinks listening to audiobooks is cheating, but I'm going through books twice as fast now, if you count my regular reading books and my audio books.  And when I have a really really good audio book going I'll find myself looking for things to clean around the house so I can have more time to listen. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There are two things I don't like about Audible, and they're both kinda moot points.  The first is that they don't carry Harry Potter (I had to buy all seven sets of CDs at about $40-$80 a piece, depending on when I bought them), but I'm done reading all of them at this point.  The second was that when I canceled my subscription the first time they actually called up my house and asked me why I was leaving them.  That wasn't so bad, but they wouldn't accept, "I have too many books, so I'm going to read the ones I have and subscribe again when I'm done" as an answer.  I had to hang up on them.  They didn't call me the second time I canceled, though.  Maybe they got the hint the first time.</blockquote>

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