Iput away my haughty reading perspective, started searching the internet for recordings of the books for my classes, and found so many! This is because many classic books are in the public domain, making them copyright-free and able to be reproduced in different forms by different people and companies.
Using this knowledge, I first came across a website called Book Audio Online which contained a vast amount of titles for free. Even though there were so many books on this website, it was difficult for me to use because the books were not divided into chapters, and if I left the website it would not save my place in my book. Although these are very minor issues in the face of having access to some many books, I kept searching in the hopes I would find an easier-to-use platform.
After trying different audiobook platforms and deciding that Spotify was my favorite, I found that I used audiobooks whenever I could to get ahead on reading. I did have to pay for a subscription, but Spotify has a great deal for students where it only costs $5 a month, as opposed to $10: all I had to do was send them a picture of my OneCard.
Once I figured out how this Whispersync thing worked, I went searching for great deals. Not every book is Whispersync-enabled, and not all of those are good deals. Many audio companions cost $12.99; many ebooks cost in the double digits. But there are lots of good deals to be found.
I did this for awhile but like the production value of Audible better & my daughter gets frustrated at the intro at the beginning at every single chapter or when a book switches narrators midstream. So grateful for Librivox for a resource but at least for us, the classics w/ the whispersync discount are worth it.
Audible is a seamless and relatively cheap method of delivery if you do it right. The classics can usually be had for free on Kindle and $0.99-$3.00 for the audiobook with Whispersync. I always check the Kindle + Whispersync price before buying on Audible, many times it is cheaper than buying it or using a member credit.
A very good friend referred Outlander to me several years ago. I remember being so shocked that she would recommend a book with such explicit scenes in it. When I told her I loved the book, I was just surprised that she would recommend it she said that someone from her church recommended it to her so she understood!
Thank you so much for this information! I love finding new sources for cheaper, quality books. Like many of your readers, I would go broke paying full price for all the books I read. Much appreciated!
Whispersync is actually Audible. It is the link between Kindle e-books and Audible audio-books. Since both Kindle and Audible are owned by Amazon Whispersync just refers to the titles that can be purchased through both entities and work together to keep your place while reading and listening interchangeably.
It is very similar here in Washington State. My library lends both e-books and audio-books through an app very similar to Audible. As is typical with the library the most popular titles usually have a waiting list though.
I honestly thought I knew every way there was to get audiobooks at the best price. But after reading your blog, I feel like I had been in a black-and-white movie and now am looking at the emerald city in technicolor. Thank you!
A few years ago WhisperSync was what helped my daughter (7 at the time) break through in her reading. She loved listening to audio books (most way above her age), but seemingly could not figure how to read no matter how much we practiced. We purchased a kindle HD and a few WhisperSync books. There is a word highlighting feature that can be turned on with WhisperSync. In less then a month she was flying through printed chapter books books (the Hobbit was one of the first). I happily credit WhisperSync with her success.
The short answer is: YES. But only if you search on Amazon, instead of Audible. You can filter your search results on Amazon to ONLY show you Whispersync titles, and the listing on any kindle book on amazon will tell you whether or not Whispersync is available. (On the daily kindle deals page at
bit.ly/MMDdeals I always highlight which titles are Whispersync-enabled.)
Have you noticed that the most of the books that you can add the audiobook (as described above) have now increased in price? Most that used to be 1.99, 2.99 or even 4.99 are now all 7.49. Many that I have purchased in the past have been raised. Do you know why this is and if this is going to be the lowest price going forward? There are still a few deals out there but not nearly as many as there were just last week. How can one find out what is going on with their pricing? Help!
I have noticed, thankfully I have built up quite a large library of audiobooks because I buy them when I see them at low prices and not just when I need a new book. There is still some good deals out there you just have to look harder now.
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Anyone else seeing this? Any idea how to resolve? I use this view a lot since I find it much easier than the list view being that I have a large number of audiobooks in iTunes. Screenshot below. Previous to the update everything seemed to work fine...Each audiobook was represented by a single cover and then I could click on it to expand to see the various chapters, etc.
This is a user to user support forum. Apple aren't listening here. One would hope that this will be fixed in the next build, but please add your voice to Feedback - iTunes - Apple to make sure they are aware of the problem.
See Organizing audiobook chapters for a scripting solution that tweaks the sort chapter names for better results with the current build, and fixes the mess that you'd otherwise get on an iPod classic for example.
FWIW I couldn't initially see the issue because my tracks have been tagged like this for years. Apple may only run quality control on iTunes content which is primarily single file books and again wouldn't show a problem.
Same issue. I removed all my audiobooks and re-added them with no improvement. So many glaring bugs in Apple software recently, I don't know what's going on over there. Clearly they're not putting their trillions into sufficient testing.
I'm also having this exact issue, as well as three others. I can no longer import books from Audible (I just get an infinite loop of popups asking me to valitade my Audible account), sorting books by name doesn't sort them properly, and changing the cover art to something other than a perfectly square image causes a strange visual glitch when I click on the book.
This is happening to me too, and I have well over 100 audiobooks in my library that I've accumulated over several years. It would take so many hours for me to go in and fix each chapter manually that I don't consider it a remotely viable option. I guess I will wait a few days for Apple to fix whatever bug is causing the issue. Otherwise I will seek a new app to host my media because iTunes is unusable in its current state.
The problem won't be fixed without another build being released. You can work around the issue by using different sort options, narrowing down the display with search or author selection, creating a smart playlist for audiobooks, using a script to tweak sort names, or you can revert to the iTunes 12.7.1.14 build of iTunes.
This isn't an answer for you but just so you know I'm in the same boat. I opened iTunes today to find my audio books in a total mess. It's like someone digitally walked into my library and tore the pages out of all my books and then said 'can you put these back into some sort of order for yourself?'. It's ridiculous really that these so called 'updates' aren't actually quality controlled before they're released. And it's even more ridiculous that people are having to 'work around' this problem. In all seriousness Jobs would be just as annoyed as his customers are at these issues.... If they use the term 'fix', it suggests that something was broken to start with, update is absolutely the wrong word for what these programers are supplying us with. I've paid a great deal of money for apple mac products... Why is this happening? And when will it be resolved? Please someone from the apple corporation respond to these two questions.
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