Download Scribd Audiobooks

[Nell Barreto]

Ireceived another email from Scribd soon after, filled with apologies. They told me that they would give me a three month free access to Scribd, and right after I received an email from Scribd that my account has been reactivated.

Is Scribd really the Netflix for books? Netflix allows you an unlimited access to all of their movies, tv-series, documenteries and so on. The only limitation is your area; the same content is not available in the US and the UK. But no matter how many series you binge-watch, Netflix will never make any of the series unavailable.

Scribd works kind of like Netflix in the way that it also has area limitations and not all of the same titles are available in all countries. But as detailed above, Scribd has another, major limitation. After a certain number of reads, you will no longer have access to any of the popular content in Scribd.

If you read ebooks on your tablet, laptop, computer or mobile and you listen to one or at maximum two audiobooks a month, Scribd could perfect for you. Scribd is cheaper than most audiobook services and you get the access to ebooks too which is not included in services like Audible.

I was looking for answers about this issue and I found this and is really disappointing how Scribd is working. it happens that I saved on my list 11 books for my school and all of the sudden all of my books disappear and say that are not available until a month later. what a waste of money.

I totally agree and I hope that maybe they will change their algortihm a bit more reader friendly when their customers start to be aware of this issue. Thank you so much for reading and commenting ?

Scribd claims that you can listen to unlimited number of audiobooks, yet after finishing several books you get a ban, because in their opinion it is unusual that you have finished several books and want to listen more. For Scribd it is normal (usual) only if you listen to a couple of books per month. They will shut you down when you are in the middle of a book. Very nice.

Hello! thank you, thank you, thank you for this really detailed post. I was going to subscribe to Scribd as English books do not come by easily in my local library, English being a foreign language here. If Scribd works as you say it does, it is not going to serve my needs. However, I will give it a try, keeping my eyes open for what you have mentioned. I have heard of some companies, namely the ones like Uber doing the same. So apparently, it is something prevalent. Thanks again

I was a few chapters in to a book that suddenly disappeared along with almost everything else on my listen list. I was so excited for this service and spent so much time adding things to my list bc I miss going to the library so much. Then they are all unavailable for a month?! No way. Cancelling.

This is the same experience I am having! I am so frustrated! I use probably 5-6 audiobooks per month as well and I all of a sudden cannot find ANY authors I prefer! None! Have you found a better option for audiobooks?

A close friend of mine is a recently published author and I was surprised to find her book on Scribd last night. She had no idea that it was available there, and I was concerned that there may be a copyright violation so I took it upon myself to research it. In the process I found this great post, but before this I found what I think may explain the maddening experience that you and your readers have had.

So @paulina, when you suspected that something happened after you hit 60% of a book you probably nailed it. At some point you triggered a royalty payment which immediately made your free trial anything but free to Scribd. Now play this out when you start paying: Knowing what my friend is paid for each copy of her book, the month in which you read it your $11.99 subscription would immediately become unprofitable to Scribd.

It stands to reason that to limit their loss on your account, Scribd will immediately limit you to titles that have much lower or no royalties. Since royalties per book are all over the map, this might happen after one or more reads past the trigger percent of each book.

I listen to audiobooks while I exercise, while I clean (folding laundry is infinitely more enjoyable with an audiobook!), and while I drive. And when I can't fall asleep at night, I often use an audiobook read at a slower speed (and with a sleep timer) to help me fall asleep.

I've been using Audible and the Libby App with all of my many library cards for years now. But Audible only gives you one book a month for $14.95 and sometimes the the books I want aren't available on Libby, or the wait to listen to them is months long. That's where Scribd has been very useful!

I've been using it for several months now (two months with a free trial, and a few more months as a paying customer). Here's my unpaid review of Scribd and their audiobooks, plus some of the audiobooks I've enjoyed from their collection.

Scribd has been described as Netflix for books. You pay $8.99 a month and they offer what they claim is unlimited access to their collection. They have audiobooks, ebooks, and even magazines but at this point I've only used audiobooks on Scribd.

You can use Scribd on any of your favorite devices. I use the app on my phone and it's been easy to find audiobooks and download them there. I like to listen while I'm walking/driving, so it's convenient for me to have an audiobook downloaded to my phone so I can listen on the go.

Unlike Audible, you don't own the audiobooks - you're just borrowing them. But unlike the library, you don't have to wait for someone else to finish before you can listen. It's rare for me to want to listen to an Audiobook a second time, so this doesn't bother me at all.

Sometimes, only some of the titles I've bookmarked show up. I think this happens more often after I've already listened to several audiobooks in a month so it might be part of the algorithm, but it's annoying. I still want to see what I have in my queue, even if I can't listen to them until my payment renews in the next month.

Scribd also has a really great selection of books, over a million titles. Even after I get pegged by the algorithm, I've found so many great middle grade and YA books, and classics to fill in if I still need more audiobooks before my month renews.

While audiobooks are the main thing that I have been using Scribd for, it's also worth mentioning that a subscription also includes access to sheet music, kindle books, podcasts, documents and even magazines. That's a lot for the $8.99 monthly price tag!

When it comes to consuming books, I typically prefer listening to audiobooks rather than sitting down with a paperback or my kindle. I love that I can do other things while I'm listening to the book. I'm definitely a multi-tasker in that sense.

The cost of audiobooks can be limiting for some people, especially since audiobooks are often more expensive than the paperback version and a lot more expensive than a digital version like a kindle download.

I actually own the audiobook version and the hardcover version of this book title. I'm not typically someone who listens to audiobooks more than once, so owning the audiobook has no future value to me.

One of the ways I've gotten my audiobooks a little cheaper over the years is by having an Audible monthly subscription. Depending on the plan you have, your audible purchases are typically less expensive than buying the audio as a stand-alone. The basic plan is $14.95/month for 1 book credit. (I'll get into the actual pricing structure of Audible later in this post).

About 6 months ago I got really into listening to more fiction books, many of which have multiple in each series. Around that time, I caught an Audible sale and scooped up something like 40 titles at 80% off.

Unfortunately, as I started listening to the books in my library I realized I didn't love all of the books I bought and started to feel really disappointed that I had spent so much money on these books that I wouldn't even finish.

One of the books I purchased during the 80% off sale was part of a series and I didn't realize it at the time. So, I only bought 1 of the 4. As soon as I finished the first one I had to get to the second one ASAP! Except I really didn't want to buy the other 3 at full price since I had just bought 80 books.

I double-checked that they had the other 3 books I was looking for and when I saw that they did, I figured I could at least finish the book series I had started on Audible, and it would save me $45ish.

When you sign up for a free Scribd subscription trial, it's important to note that your monthly fee automatically renews after the trial period is over. So, if you don't want to continue past the free access you'll want to cancel your Scribd subscription prior to the next billing date.

One thing I love about the Scribd app is the pricing is simple and straightforward! I often felt frustrated with my Audible Plus subscription because even though they had a library of included audiobooks, they rarely had the ones I actually wanted to listen to.

If you sign up for Scribd using my referral link, you'll actually get a full 60 days before your monthly subscription starts and you are billed $11.99. Yeah, that's 2 full months of unlimited listening and reading.

Even if you decide to cancel your membership after the trial period is over, you'll probably still benefit from having the entire library available to you for those 2 months. I would be able to listen to at least 8 audiobooks in that time.

Since I already feel like the Scribd membership is worth the monthly fee, for just the audiobook access, getting access to all of the other unlimited books and magazine articles is just icing on the cake for me.

The same with the Sheet Music and Documents. Although I wish and try to play the piano, I still have no need for the sheet music library and I haven't actually explored the document library at all. So, if you do, make sure to let me know what you think about it.

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