January 2018 Book Deals

@f00l Sounds promising.

@f00l Remind me to buy this after I finish reading A Song of Ice and Fire… assuming we ever get the chance to get there.

@justbuyit
Some of us prefer to compensate the authors.

@ruouttaurmind
https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Black-Book-Audiobook/B06W5S4WHT

Mine came in today at 2:32 am.

@Barney TY!

Interesting… after I clicked on your link, it now shows the daily deal on the Audible home page. I did not change my login ID, wasn’t asked to re-login, it just… appeared. Curiouser and curiouser.

@ruouttaurmind Perhaps you are out of your mind.

@Barney Perhaps you are a bot?

@ruouttaurmind Ms. Purple bot to you.
/image I love purple.

And having multiple library cards for places around the country gives you a bigger selection.

@Coldrice I’m listening to A Dirty Job from the library. Thank you tax dollars.

@sammydog01 My City and County libraries do not do audiobooks, and do not participate in overdrive.

@ruouttaurmind Wow- that sucks. Have you asked why?

@ruouttaurmind Maybe this will help?
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2011/09/22/library-ebooks-for-non-residents-where-to-get-ebooks-if-your-library-is-lacking/

@ruouttaurmind Are you an alumnus of a college or university which does? More and more, this is becoming a bennie.

@OldCatLady Cool idea. I checked. It costs the special alumni fee of $150/year. You would think with all the cash my parents paid it would be free.

@Willijs3 How do you get said cards?

@bdb If you go to your local library, or sometimes their website, they can get you setup with a card (or card number). Then you just need to register on Overdrive.

@OldCatLady I am, but as with @sammydog01, membership in the alumni association requires membership fees. I will definitely check into it, and I appreciate the suggestion.

@ruouttaurmind The fees for the libraries in that link start at $25 a year which seems pretty fair for both kindle and audio books. The cheapest one is the county I grew up in- I may get a membership just for fun.

@Coldrice Thank you for taking the time to reply, but I was actually trying to attract the attention of @Willijs3. He said he had multiple cards from around the country.

Which I know is possible if you pay for it, due to some of the other links in this topic, but since he had “multiple” I am thinking he may not be paying for them. So I am wondering how he has ended up with the cards.

@bdb Yeah, things have been busy and I haven’t gotten the chance to reply. @Coldrice is 100% correct. Quite a few libraries allow you to apply online for a library card and don’t require you to prove residence. AND a lot of them give you the number right away. I am a member of my local library, but I also have a card for the library where my best friend lives, one for the State of Ohio Library, and one for Stark Co. Library. I used to have a number for Cincinnati, but they require you to actually visit a physical location from time to time to make sure it stays active. I wasn’t able to make it last year.

If my local library doesn’t have access to a book through Overdrive, I use the other cards to search for it. If there is a wait list for a certain book, I usually jump right to the State of Ohio Library’s collection because they usually have a higher number of copies to offer.

It’s all legal and available if you search your area’s library systems.

@Willijs3 It’s legal if you live in Ohio.

@sammydog01 Who says I live in Ohio? And why would it be illegal? I haven’t used any deception nor have I stolen anything.

@Willijs3 The website gives you two options to get a card- as a state resident or state employee. If you click on one of those and aren’t eligible I would see that as fraud. But I’m not a lawyer.

@sammydog01 I’m not sure why you are trying so hard to call me out about committing a crime when you know absolutely nothing about me. You don’t know where I live and it isn’t impossible for someone to own property in multiple states. Maybe you should think twice before you grab your pitchfork and try to hang a man.

@Willijs3 I said it’s legal if you live in Ohio or are a state employee. For all I know you live in Cleveland. I was pointing it out to other people who thought they could go get a card without the residency requirement.
/giphy kiss and make up?

@sammydog01 deal.

/giphy smooches

@Coldrice Whoops, I clicked the wrong reply link

@ruouttaurmind This is gonna be pricey.

@sammydog01 These are all retreads from the 2017 Daily Deals, so if you’re in the habit of checking those, you probably already own anything you’re compelled to.

Couple suggestions:
100 Year Old Man (fiction, great fun)

Spaceship Next Door (sci-fi, but not sci-fi)

Nice Dragons Finish Last (sci-fi/fantasy set in near future, YA so it’s a fun easy to listen story)

Greyhound (fiction, warm and humorous)

All of those have a fair amount of humor and had me LOL at times (humor is requisite in all the books I listen to).

@ruouttaurmind

These sales are great in case “I meant to but forgot”.

Thanks. Always worth a look.

@ruouttaurmind Thanks for the recommendations. The 100 year old man book is free on Amazon Channels. I may queue it up just in case they dump it on Feb 1.

@sammydog01 Amazon Channels? Yet another Prime feature I am ignorant of?

@ruouttaurmind You didn’t know about Channels? Pull up your Audible app or however you listen and look for it- tons of free stuff, no Audible membership required. Some of it is streaming only.

@ruouttaurmind
The always have some audiobooks free each month, plus news sources and other interesting stuff.

In the app. Look for “channels”.

I listened to a couple of books that way.

@f00l, @sammydog01, Oh, ya, the Audible Channels. I checked them out when first premiered, but I couldn’t figure out how to access the downloaded content, and didn’t like the inability to DL books (streaming only). I will give it a second look though, thanks!

BTW, 100 YO Man is also a movie available on… hmm, either Netflix or Prime Video, I cannot recall which. Like with many films, it falls vastly short of the book.

@f00l, @sammydog01, I just started listening to Jaws in Channels. Thanks for motivating me to give it another shot. It took me a minute to figure out how to get it to play. I finally figured out I hadn’t enabled cellular data for Audible. Just have to keep an eye on how much data this feature consumes as I have a pretty modest allowance each month.

@f00l Bought it.

@ruouttaurmind Audible doesn’t either. They’re happy to take anyone’s cash. (I’m pretty sure anyway.)

@ruouttaurmind

I dont think either audible or Amazon require prime to purchase the daily e-book and audiobook deals.

This book is also the Nook Daily Find from Barnes and Noble, at that same price.

Amazon has priced matched the Kindle Edition of this book for today.

@f00l Before I started my Prime subscription (nearly a year ago) I recall attempting to purchase a Daily Deal and being denied. Or maybe I’m making things up again.

@ruouttaurmind

Although I hate to encourage Amazon in its attempt to “eat all the octopus”, I should mention that Amazon almost always price matches e-book DOTD offers from other companies.

So fast Amazon has not price matched Audiobook DOTDs. But so far, the other sellers have been small potatoes.
(Nookaudionooks.com etc).
Google is supposed to starting selling digital Audiobooks. That might change things.

@f00l I recall something about the Google venture. I wonder if eStories is courting Google for a buyout. They would be if they were wry business minds…

@ruouttaurmind @f00l

It started yesterday. 50% off of first purchase.

@PlacidPenguin

Can trees books be played on both Android and iOS?

@PlacidPenguin

Can trees books be played on both Android and iOS?

OMG. These.

Sigh

Yes they can supposedly be played on iOS by the Google book app.

On iOS they must be purchased using a web browser

50% off one’s first book isn’t that great an offer tho, considering that you can get any book from Audible for the price of a credit.

@f00l Will they work on my kindle? (I bet not.)

@sammydog01

No idea.

Mobileread forums will prob have this info.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/

@f00l @sammydog01 I don’t know much about side-loading onto a Kindle, but in the past it’s been pretty easy to find the free tools to convert different formats and what-not and side-load books onto my Android tablet.

I’ve used my Windows laptops and desktops first to do the converting, then plug the device in and load it up!

I’m assuming (hoping) Kindles will allow this. I already have quite a few e-books.

@therealjrn

Calibre will convert, catalog, and email to Kindle for you.

@f00l

@f00l I did buy this, thanks! Good deal!

@f00l Looks interesting, but it shows up for sale @ $25 for me.

@therealjrn
Ok. I had a “Buy for $0.00” button.

No idea how to got that button, but I jumped on it.

Congrats on the kindle!

How that you have Kindle, do talk to your library. Freebies!

@f00l Thanks! I will! They just now shipped it, supposed to get here I don’t know when yet. It’s still in Indiana right now.

@f00l Redshirts- fun!