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A few weeks ago I signed up for an Audible account. It was $7.95 for the first three months and I get one book per month. Then I think it jumps to $15 or so. If I want to get more than one/month, the cost ranges between $12-$25 or so for each book. Value varies depending on length...I can spend around $16 and get something that's five hours long or something like War and Peace that's over 60 hours of audio...

I got a book (The Game aka Mystery's biography and how Tyler Durden overtook the "PUA" industry) and tore through it in less than two days. It was over nine hours of audio.

I've been TERRIBLE with reading in recent years and I think books on tape may be my savior, for now anyway. I can let it play while I'm at the gym, driving, even at work when there's not much going on. I laid there in bed listening for hours whereas with a book I'd have stopped every 20-30 minutes. Obviously, reading becomes easier/faster with practice so I need to step up my reading whether I'm using audio books or not, so I'm not seeing it as a replacement, but as an easy way to rip through a lot of books in a shorter time.

Problem is...if I want to tear through a bunch of books, it's going to be a pretty high expense.

I guess the only alternative is torrents and the host of problems that come with those (ISP tracking, availability, quality, etc.) I'd need to figure out the whole proxy thing if I starting using torrents again.

Anyone use Audible? I like how it tracks your listening habits and downloads directly to iphone...but I don't like the expense.

Post: #2

Lots of books on torrent. May be more difficult to find less mainstream content, however.