Where do you get your audiobooks from?

[Nicole]

I'm not sure. I just listen to the Cd's I can check out, but I'll look. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Mackenzie]

I use audible!

[Michael]

Does the Audible.com search engine drive any one nuts?

[Vic]

Michael wrote: "Does the Audible.com search engine drive any one nuts?"

YES! Sometimes the books there but only if you go to genre section or something. I find it most annoying on Tuesdays when new books are usually published. I wonder if it takes time to get in the cache to be searched or something and it's super noticeable because I want the book as soon as I can get my ears on it! :)

[Michael]

I have an Audible plan so all my books come from that site. My problem with their search. If you put in the exact Title and specify title search it comes up with a lot of titles containing those words just like a keyword search.

[Vinity]

I get most of my books thru audible. I adore that company. Lots of good sales. I have two accounts, one I opened when I got a new ipod from Amazon with the $100 amazon credit 1 year gold audible membership. I needed the ipod anyway so it brought those credits to 12 credits for $80. $180 {year gold membership} - $100 credit to amazon off my ipod= $80

My regular account is platinum 24 all at once packs. They last about 3-4 months for me. A little longer if they have some nice $5 sales. If you hold out renewing the Platinum 24 to you are down to 5-6 credits they offer early re-new with an extra credit. :)

I've gotten a few from my library but frankly, it's a very sad library. I looked into the loaning system in place but they also had very few interesting books and the ones they had that were interesting had LONG lines. :(

Before I found audible years ago I bought cds and used itunes, which SUCKED! very poor quality DLs, which can only be done once. A friend gave me {not my thing} as a gift from itunes and right in the middle of a section it had the AUDIBLE "you have reached the end of this section of the audiobooks but not the end of the audiobooks. Please check your library...etc" Now this was in the MIDDLE of the itunes section. I can't imagine how they got the audible DL but to not even edit it better than that was bad.

[Jess]

I get 100% of my audio books from the library. I primarily listen in the car and my commute is 10 minutes with traffic, so I don't go through them very quickly, and listening on CD in my car works very well. Sometimes I'll have a 2nd book going in the house to listen to while I cook. I don't know if my library system has a particularly good selection or if it's because I only listen to a handful a month, but our CD collection keeps me busy. I order CD audiobooks for the children's library, so I do have *some* influence over the collection! We also have downloadable audiobooks through Overdrive, but so far I haven't needed to use it.

I use print books for most of my reading - maybe 10-12 print books a month versus 2-4 audiobooks, which seems to be unusual in this group! I usually have 1 or 2 print books going at a time, and 1 or 2 audiobooks, but I move through print more quickly both because I can read faster that way and because I have more opportunity (lunch breaks, before bed, lazy days off). I wouldn't give up either format, though.

[Michael]

I mainly like thriller, mystery and horror. Anyone having a hard time finding titles in these genre's on Audible.com?

[Michael]

I will give a specific. I am interested in listening to a number of Graham Masterton novels none of which are available on Audible. I don't know the publishing business but you would think an author who has been around as long as him with a number of popular books many turned into movies and tv would have made a deal on audio.

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

I get my audio books from CDs from the library and also from Overdrive downloads from the library. I have a Sansa Clip+ that I listen to them on. I highly recommend this player. If you use Overdrive a lot it is so simple to transfer and they go automatically to the audiobooks folder and you can pause and pick up where you left off at any time. It is small, clips to your clothes and charges via USB.

For CD audiobooks it takes a bit more work to get them on there and in the right place but it is worth the effort for the convenience. I have the 4 gb which holds at least 4 books at a time no problem. It was only 50 dollars! :) I love it.

[John, Moderator]

Four books? I currently have a dozen on mine!

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

John wrote: "Four books? I currently have a dozen on mine!"

LOL! I have never tried that many. I just got it recently. Some are longer than others. I am currently listening to The Book Thief which is about 13 hours I think. My last one was Fairest which I think was only about 8 hours. I loved it though. I want to listen to more from Full Cast Audio. It was an experience :)

[Heidi]

I have the 2 gb sansa and have 5 audiobooks on it now and I am sure room for more!

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

I will try to put more on when I get my laptop back from the doctor as I like to say. :-P

[Nicole]

Is there any site like HULU for books? I do not want to download and transfer, burn, or pay. I wish I could just click and listen. (I do have windows media player).

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

Nik wrote: "Is there any site like HULU for books? I do not want to download and transfer, burn, or pay. I wish I could just click and listen. (I do have windows media player)."

That is a good question. I believe some of the Librivox books are able to just stream and listen but those are all public domain classics. I don't know how you feel about classics. Podiobooks is free (modern indie authors) but I don't know if they have a streaming option. I will be on the look out and let you know if I find one.

Maybe this link will be helpful. It seems you can listen online with Podiobooks.
http://websearch.about.com/od/howtofi...

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

Here is another link you may find helpful. It is a list of legal and free audiobook websites. Some are download only and some have listen online options.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-...

[[deleted user]]

Michael wrote: "I mainly like thriller, mystery and horror. Anyone having a hard time finding titles in these genre's on Audible.com?"

No trouble here Michael and I live in Australia (which means geographical restrictions prevent me from being able to legally acquire many of the books that American and UK readers can see). I don't read much horror but I do love thrillers and mysteries and have found heaps to keep me listening on audible. Some recent recommendations from me would be

Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre - actually that one is a bit horror-ish - terrific narration

anything of Reginald Hill's narrated by Jonathan Keeble including the last few Dalziel and Pascoe books or his recent standalone novel The Woodcutter

Nevada Barr's series read by Barbara Rosenblat has proven really engaging

Another great English author of mysteries is Martin Edwards and most of his lake district series is wonderfully narrated by Gordon Griffin

For thrillers you could try some of the Linwood Barclay titles or CJ Box's standalone novels

[Julie C]

In the UK has anyone heard of EBSCOhost ??

[Cornelia]

So far I have obtained audiobooks from the following sources:

--CDs as gifts from Family and friends, or bought myself if I really wanted or found on sale
--CDs checked out from the library
--Files borrowed from Overdrive and OneClick Digital through the library
--Files purchased from Amazon
--Files for free from LibriVox (for out-of-copyright works if a professional recording does not exist or is hard to find)
--Even bought one as a file from iTunes once
--Cassettes bought cheap at bookstores, library book sales, and online. I also have a friend who sometimes gives me cassettes.

It's not enough! There are STILL books of which audio recordings were made, near impossible to reasonably obtain! I also have bales of print books I picked up because they were favorites, said by someone somewhere at sometime to be collectible, and so on. Some I might sell, but would actually rather trade for things I want. Hence this question regarding sites for book and audiobook exchanges, trades, and swaps:

Anyone tried these? How was your experience? Is one site recognized as the best? Thanks.*

https://hubpages.com/literature/Audio...

*Earlier in this thread such sites are mentioned, but still interested in opinions, thanks.