Audible Has Free Stuff

sammydog01 had a quick thing to say said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 11:40am ET

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi is free on Audible.com. FREE! I love free. Plus it’s narrated by new Spock. I downloaded some other free stuff but it looks like crap. But FREE!

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f00l said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 12:55pm ET:

Wow thanks. Was already in library, so I missed it.

Here is a direct link to the book.

https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/FREE-The-Dispatcher-Audiobook/B01KKPH1VA/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_AL

Some audible freebies are temp offers, others permanent. Anyone who wants this, don’t wait.

@sammydog01 - jic this is a perm freebie, I’m gonna add it to the long audiobook thread. Hope that’s ok?

If not ok, then my apologies.

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- @f00l I ends on Wednesday (Nov 2). It’s a novella, 2 hours and change. I’m enjoying it. Thanks for posting the link.
  
  sammydog01 said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 1:20pm ET
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OldCatLady said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 4:25pm ET:

Got it, and thanks. I’ve shared it with other bibliophiles. How do you search for other freebies?

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- @OldCatLady
  i don’t know a way to search the site for freebies. Sometimes they appear on the home page.
  
  Otherwise slickdeals.net (you can put up a permanent search for “audible.com” there which will notify you.
  
  f00l said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 4:37pm ET
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- @OldCatLady
  
  This one is free I think permanently
  
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  By L Frank Baum
  Read by Anna Hathaway.
  
  http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/The-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz-Audiobook/B007BR5KZA/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1477777427&sr=1-1
  
  I am gonna put whatever I might find in the audiobook thread here:
  
  https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-many-hours-a-day-do-you-spend-listening-to-podcasts-music-radio-or-audiobooks#5815187ca30c4a1c0549ca0d
  
  Sometimes they do a free book for the holiday period. If the past they offered Tim Curry’s reading of A Christmas Carol. I don’t think it’s free now but it’s usually free from for a month or two.
  
  Overdrive is s downloadable audiobook app that uses your public library’s catalog as the book source. The player is at least decent, and the books are always free.
  
  You just have to have a library card. After that you don’t have to go to the library. You can even get onto a waiting list for audiobooks that are “checked out”. (each library has a limited # of digital licenses per book.)
  
  f00l said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 5:54pm ET
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  Oops. Fucked up
  
  @OldCatLady, OZ is not free
  
  If you want free audiobooks, talk to your library about Overdrive app for iOS and android. Content is free for that.
  
  f00l said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 6:02pm ET
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- @f00l Overdrive and I are old friends, and I always have ebooks and occasional audiobooks checked out. That’s not the same as hoard- er, owning them.
  
  OldCatLady said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 7:52pm ET
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- @OldCatLady Thinking of you… free audio book…
  
  Also, @kdemo @sammydog01 @f001
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Zant-and-the-Ghost/dp/B019EE533Q?tag=dealnewscom
  
  no idea if the book is any good…
  
  mikibell said Wed, Apr 26th 2017 at 4:09pm ET
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- @mikibell It looks promising, and I got it. Thanks!
  
  OldCatLady said Wed, Apr 26th 2017 at 5:35pm ET
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- @mikibell
  @kdemo
  @sammydog01
  @OldCatLady
  
  Already had it, but thanks for the find.
  
  Wilkie Collins, by some estimates, wrote the first ever mysteries (The Woman In White, The Moonstone), a number of other very readable Victorian novels (a few, if I remember, with a strong spiritualist emphasis, which was interesting to me to read of [he doesn’t present the ideas through an occult approach]), and his novels can be very enjoyable.
  
  I haven’t done this one yet.
  
  If you like Wilkie Collins, there may be some other audible freebies, or really cheap kindle/audible combos, since the print books are long out of copyright.
  
  f00l said Wed, Apr 26th 2017 at 7:28pm ET
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- @mikibell Voiced by Gillian Anderson! But it’s really short. Thanks!
  
  sammydog01 said Wed, Apr 26th 2017 at 9:14pm ET
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- Oh wow, thanks, @mikibell!
  
  kdemo said Wed, Apr 26th 2017 at 11:44pm ET
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kdemo said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 5:57pm ET:

I listen to audiobooks from the library every day. This is great, I own one now. Thanks, @sammydog01!

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- @KDemo I get a lot from the library but I’m picking up a few from Audible. I’m getting an Amazon Dot for the bathroom so I can listen to books in the tub. Don’t judge me.
  
  sammydog01 said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 6:27pm ET
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- @sammydog01 - Haha, I listen to podcasts on my trusty little x-minis while showering.
  
  kdemo said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 6:30pm ET
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- @sammydog01 Here comes the judge.
  
  Barney said Sat, Oct 29th 2016 at 7:06pm ET
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- @KDemo those x minis are great shower speakers for us too!
  
  Has anyone actually hooked up more than one pair together and is it worth it?
  
  luvche21 said Sun, Oct 30th 2016 at 1:01am ET
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- @KDemo Tonight I tried floating my banana boat speaker in the tub while listening to a Robert McCammon book. It worked great until I fell asleep.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Oct 30th 2016 at 2:20am ET
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- @luvche21 - I just use two at a time, I have a pair of bt ones meh offered long ago, and a pair of wired ones. I mostly use the wired ones in the bathroom, and bt when travelling. You might check the product thread to find out about stringing more together?
  
  kdemo said Sun, Oct 30th 2016 at 9:56pm ET
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