For once, my innate ability to procrastinate has paid off. Count them… one.
I subscribe to Audible – the audiobook arm of Amazon. Each month I pay for a credit that entitles me to purchase one book. Sensibly, I try to make it a big book, or a boxed set, or something that seems like value for money. I won’t use it to buy a book that costs less than the credit did, that’d be dumb. I also won’t use it to get the audiobook of a title that I already own in eBook form. Also dumb, as the website automatically links with my Amazon account and offers the audiobook for the low price of $2.99 if it’s already in my library. I’m not sure how long they’ll keep doing that, it seems like a loss leader to me.
For instance, Anna Karenina is a free eBook; it’s old and out of copyright. The audio production is brilliantly read by Maggie Gyllenhaal. I expect she got paid a lot for that. But as I own the free eBook it cost me less than five dollars to hear Maggie’s breathy voice read to me. I think. Honestly I forget the price.
It’s a neat way to read those classics we all put off.
At any rate, for months, I hadn’t taken the time to trawl through my wishlist and I was busy listening to free audiobooks borrowed from my local library via the online app.
Audible had a promo; buy three books and they’d give you a $20 credit.
Oh now…
I check the fine print: or spend three credits.
I just so happen to have three credits. I’m in. I spent the credits on boxed sets and I used the voucher to buy all the library matches.
Seven audiobooks for twenty bucks? Bargain.