I also try to mention it when I notice one on Facebook or Instagram. I don’t have a rock solid way, but they do have a deals page with the daily deal and any audiobooks that are a below-average price. And then I use Overdrive or Scribd for the rest of my audiobook needs. We have a regular $14.95/month plan and then I buy one-off audiobooks when there is a good sale or if there is something I really want. How much do you spend on Audible per month? Just pick two the next month.īest news – Audible guarantees all their audiobooks, so if you don’t like something, you can just exchange it, no questions asked. So if you have a month where you don’t get around to picking a book? No sweat. And also when you want to be able to listen over and over again (which is why we own a lot of children’s books from Audible).Ĭredits roll over until you get to five (or a higher number if you have a more expensive plan). So Audible is awesome for when you want to listen to something right away and then have as much time as you need to listen. But those hold lines can be SO long (I’m on a few where it will be more than six months until a book comes up) and then you have to make sure to get through it in the allotted time before it goes back to your library. I totally get this! I love Overdrive and am so grateful for my libraries that have it. Why would I use Audible if my library has Overdrive? (Or, you know, a credit card).īut, of course, there are always a bazillion extra questions to answer, so I’ll try to do that here with questions I’ve been asked a bunch of times: Frequently Asked Questions about Audible: So when a good sale comes along (like this one last fall), I’ll never use my Audible credits for those sales – I’ll just buy them straight up with cash. This is generally a terrible idea if the book is more expensive than $14.95 (if it is, you might as well just get a membership, use your credit and cancel your account), but if the book is LESS than $14.95, it’s better than using your Audible credit.
You don’t have to have a membership and you can just download the Audible app, then buy an audiobook when the fancy strikes you (or a smoking sale comes along) and it will appear in your library. The second way to use Audible is by buying audiobooks one by one
In this case, you can even sign up, download your free audiobook and then immediately cancel your subscription.Īs always, I recommend that if you sign up for a free or discounted trial, set a calendar alert a day or two before it converts to a regular subscription so you can decide if you want it to continue or if you want to cancel.
Or, even cheaper, is a free month-long trial where you get a free audiobook for signing up.
Also, with any Audible book, you own it – it never gets returned, even if you cancel your membership. Download them when you’re ready to listen and you’re ready to go.
You download the Audible app and any audiobooks you purchase appear in your library. You also get 30% off any additional audiobooks you buy. Many audiobooks run closer to $30 each if you were to buy them piecemeal, so an Audible subscription gives you a fantastic deal on them. That credit lets you buy any book in their catalog (and their catalog is MASSIVE – definitely the biggest one on the market). The base level is $14.95 a month and you get one audiobook credit. First, there is the subscription modelĪs you’d probably expect, you pay a monthly fee and get a certain number of audiobook credits. You can use these two methods independently or in combination (which is what we do at our house).
Wondering how to use the Audible app to listen to audiobooks? This is a quick overview of the two basic ways to use Audible, plus answers to the most common questions about using the Audible app! And you can sign up for a free trial here and get a free audiobook of your choice!Įvery time I mention Audible, I get a ton of questions about how to use Audible to listen to audiobooks, so I wanted to give an overview of how it works, plus answer some other questions.īasically, there are two ways to use Audible.