Books you're currently reading???

[DanaC]

True. But the first 3 months are only 3.99 a month (for which you get a credit exchangeable for pretty much any audio book) and after that 7.99. (or whatever the dollar equivalent is). given that the credits now carry over (they didn't used to) that basically means you are paying 7.99 a month for one audiobook. Any month you dont get a download, you can carry that credit to a maximum of 6 months. So you can just store up a few credits and then go on an audiobook bonanza when you fancy. That credit per audiobok is excellent value. If you want to buy other books on top of the one you pay for with your monthly fee, they're significantly cheaper than anywhere else. You can download them in various formats: mp3, enhanced CD, etc. You can download straight to your ipod, or to your computer. And your purchases are stored on your 'bookshelf' so if you want to redownload them at any time you can in a different format if you wish. It's waaay cheaper than any other way of getting audiobooks and there's a bunch of freebies too (podcasts and interviews with writers, reviews free sample chapters to help you choose etc). You can also cancel at any time, so you're not tied in for a contract.

Worth doing, I thought, just for the three months trial (at the lower price) it basically means you're getting three full price audiobooks for £12. That's what i decided to do anyway :P I may decide to keep it going at the full price (£7.99) when the trial runs out next month. I haven't decided yet.

[Cloud]

I just have an aversion to "signing up" for anything that costs monthly money. Netflix, for instance, pisses me off royally because of their constant popup ads which don't seem to be avoidable, plus the monthly charge. I just want to rent ONE movie at a time; buy ONE audiobook, etc. Plus, I don't listen to many audiobooks anyway.

But I admit that for some people it looks like a good deal.

[DanaC]

The other option, of course, is to buy audiobooks on cd from amazon or ebay. They can be a bugger to get onto the ipod, but if you set up a playlist folder then have each cd as a playlist within that folder it works just fine.

[lumberjim]

i have 2 audible accounts

[lumberjim]

i just checked, and I have 158 books on one account and 244 on the other. 402 books.

wow

[Cloud]

wow, indeed. Great for commuting, but since my entire roundtrip commute is 5 miles . . .

[lumberjim]

funny...the one with 158 is my older account. It's a type of account that you can't get anymore.... one credit gets ANY book where with the current Platinum membership, some books cost 2 credits. The down side is that the credits don't roll over like they do with the new account types.....so I guess I've missed the boat quite a bit on that account.

[DanaC]

I have to say I havent actually come across any of the books that require two credits (yet).

[dacliff]

Currently reading:

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

On the way:
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm

[lumberjim]

oh dear...they just released book 12 of that series on audible.

it's been so long since book 11......

[dacliff]

That's why I'm re-reading the series.

[lumberjim]

I didn't realize Jordan had carked it....

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor - his wife, Harriet McDougal - to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Storm as the first of three novels that will make up A Memory of Light.

[wolf]

Relic - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Think Indiana Jones and the Scary Beast Loose in the Museum.
Stupid and contrived, don't waste teh bucks. Figured out the twist less than halfway through, kept waiting for the characters to have the lightbulb go on, must have been burned out.



The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Boyfriend's taking me to see the movie in the next couple of weeks, figured I'd read it to see what it's about. I usually like post-apocalyptic fiction, but I'm more of a Canticle for Leibowitz or Alas, Babylon, or even The Survivalist, kind of reader. This is pretentious stream of consciousness crap. The world's ended and he's using words like "palimpsest?" Oh, puh-leaz.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by wolf

...This is pretentious stream of consciousness crap. The world's ended and he's using words like "palimpsest?" Oh, puh-leaz.

I had to google that word.

Of course, as everyone here prolly already knows, "palimpsest" means "a manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written."

I'm reading junk. Potboilers. Rags. They are very tasty.

[richlevy]

The Age of Misrule series by Mark Chadbourn.

It's sort of like National Treasure meets Lord of the Rings. It's set in England, and pages and pages of the book are part history of England, and part lengendary/occult history of England. Some of it was myth presented as truth, like the story of Mary Kings Close.

From Wikipedia.

Despite the myth, victims were not walled up in the closes and left to starve. In fact, there had been a long tradition of organized quarantine in the town. Over many previous outbreaks, those infected with the plague enclosed themselves in their house and indicated their plight by displaying a small white flag from the window. In response, bread, ale, coal and even wine were delivered to them daily, and a plague doctor would visit to drain bubos - the pus-filled lymph nodes, which threatened to rupture and kill the patient through septicaemia. Some people were quarantined in wooden huts or ‘ludges’, outside the town at Sciennes, Boroughmuir, or in the King’s Park, for anything from two to six weeks or until death, whichever came the soonest.

Still, Chadbourn does lead a great tour of England and Scotland. It's a bit of a slow read, but he does set the mood and build the characters well. I'm just finishing the second book Darkest Hour and picked up the third book from the library today.