[nabs-l] Question About Audible

[Garrett Kearns]

I've had an Audible membership for almost ten years. I find it
incredibly useful when it comes to finding professionally recorded
books I'm interested in listening to. You can either pay per book at
full price, or you can get a membership which gives you a discount on
everything and one free book per month. Credits are usually a bargain
because you're paying a fraction of the price for an audiobook. the
longer the book, the higher the price.

On 6/29/17, Joshua Hendrickson via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> There's more then one kind of audible plan.  I chose the 2 credit per
> month plan.  Every blind person in the United States should be signed
> up with bard.  Bard has a not of great stuff.  I've got an external
> hard drive with 1.41 TB of NLS bard books on it.
>
> On 6/29/17, Roanna Bacchus  via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Thank you for the info maybe I'll see about getting free barred
>> membership
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Ellana Crew via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Coincidentally, I just investigated this topic myself the other day. You
>>> do have to pay for the membership, I believe it is $14 and some change a
>>> month and it only gives you one book credit per month. I haven't found
>>> it
>>> to be especially useful on that front, because you're essentially just
>>> paying the full price for an audiobook each month as if you were buying
>>> the book outright. You can get a 30 day trial though, during which you
>>> get
>>> 2 free book credits. Also, from what I have found so far the books are
>>> only available in recorded audio format, so if you were planning to read
>>> the book using a refreshable braille display as in hoping to read the
>>> book
>>> in braille, I don't think this is possible. As mentioned before, if
>>> you're
>>> only planning to get a few books here and there, it's cheaper to pay for
>>> them individually than to use a membership.
>>>
>>> Ellana Crew, Vice President
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>>>
>>>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:43 AM, Jessica Hodges via NABS-L
>>>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Audible is a paid service. You can pay by the book, or you can pay a
>>>> set
>>>> price for a certain number of credits a month, which allows you to
>>>> redeem
>>>> them for any book in audible's catalogue. If you are only looking to
>>>> get
>>>> one or two books from audible, you might want to buy them individually,
>>>> but if you think you will be a regular user of the service, credits
>>>> would
>>>> be the way to go, as books get expensive. And credits can always be
>>>> saved
>>>> for a rainy day. Hope this is helpful!
>>>>
>>>> Jessica.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/29/2017 8:39 AM, roanna bacchus via NABS-L wrote:
>>>>> Dear Students,
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope all of you are doing well as you prepare to head to Orlando for
>>>>> this year's convention.  I have a question for you.  I am thinking
>>>>> about
>>>>> wanting to read audible books on my BrailleNote Apex.  Do I have to
>>>>> pay
>>>>> for an audible membership or is it free? Have any of you used this
>>>>> service to read audio books? Hope to hear from you soon.
>>>>>
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