I loved these audiobooks. What's next?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a take on a classic, but the audiobook version of Circe was absolutely fantastic. I could listen to the narrator read the phonebook, she was that good.

NP. Completely agree. I wish she would do more. One of the best narrators I’ve ever heard.

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I’m a fan of listening to autobiographies/memoirs.

Love hearing the authors literal voice.

Molly Shannon’s was really good. Michelle Obama’s. Lauren Graham.

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I don’t usually like audiobooks because I’m so easily distracted, but I enjoyed listening to The Women by Kristin Hannah. It’s about female nurses who served in Vietnam.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t usually like audiobooks because I’m so easily distracted, but I enjoyed listening to The Women by Kristin Hannah. It’s about female nurses who served in Vietnam.

I also get distracted, so I listen while doing chores (cleaning, folding laundry) or walking outside. It helps! If I am sitting, I play a game on my phone while I listen, something mindless.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a fan of listening to autobiographies/memoirs.

Love hearing the authors literal voice.

Molly Shannon’s was really good. Michelle Obama’s. Lauren Graham.

Yes I like listening to famous people. Trevor Noah's was awesome. I also enjoyed Jessica Simpson's (it needed to be shorter and it was a little annoying, but the fun gossip got me through). Michelle's Obama's Becoming was SO good.

I also loved Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson and all of Roxane Gay's work, but Gay's stuff is HEAVY.

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The Secret History, Donna Tartt. Read by the author, it’s great.

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For classics, I love anything read by Juliet Stevenson.

Jane Austen works really well on audio too - you can just tell she read her books out loud in a drawing room to her sister while she was working on them.

I also listened to a reread of Gone With the Wind by Linda Stephens and it was FANTASTIC! It got me back in to audiobooks.

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I'm really slow with audiobooks so I can never listen to them in the 21 days libby allows. Are there options for accessing audiobooks that are cheaper than audible?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really slow with audiobooks so I can never listen to them in the 21 days libby allows. Are there options for accessing audiobooks that are cheaper than audible?

Here is what I do:
I downloaded the overdrive program to my laptop. Then I transfer the book from my laptop to an MP3 player via the overdrive program. The MP3 player is not hooked up to the internet, so the book stays on my MP3 player until I delete it.

Last spring, the libraries all said the overdrive program was going to be deleted on May 1, 2023. But then it didn't go away after all. It is just not ever going to be updated and will be obsolete eventually, I suppose. But for now, it still works just fine.

I can walk you through how I do it if you want.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really slow with audiobooks so I can never listen to them in the 21 days libby allows. Are there options for accessing audiobooks that are cheaper than audible?

Here is what I do:
I downloaded the overdrive program to my laptop. Then I transfer the book from my laptop to an MP3 player via the overdrive program. The MP3 player is not hooked up to the internet, so the book stays on my MP3 player until I delete it.

Last spring, the libraries all said the overdrive program was going to be deleted on May 1, 2023. But then it didn't go away after all. It is just not ever going to be updated and will be obsolete eventually, I suppose. But for now, it still works just fine.

I can walk you through how I do it if you want.

Np here, would appreciate a walk through!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really slow with audiobooks so I can never listen to them in the 21 days libby allows. Are there options for accessing audiobooks that are cheaper than audible?

Here is what I do:
I downloaded the overdrive program to my laptop. Then I transfer the book from my laptop to an MP3 player via the overdrive program. The MP3 player is not hooked up to the internet, so the book stays on my MP3 player until I delete it.

Last spring, the libraries all said the overdrive program was going to be deleted on May 1, 2023. But then it didn't go away after all. It is just not ever going to be updated and will be obsolete eventually, I suppose. But for now, it still works just fine.

I can walk you through how I do it if you want.

Np here, would appreciate a walk through!

Okay. First you need to install the overdrive program onto your laptop computer. You can't go to the overdrive /Libby website to find it anymore. But there are some people on reddit who have posted a link to the program download.
Here is a reddit page with the download link in it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/todkr0/transferring_audiobooks_to_mp3_player_from_libby/
Scroll down to the link provided by a commenter named "Calmed entropy".
There is the link for the overdrive program.
So, install the program on your laptop.

Then you need an MP3 player. They are available to purchase on line. I prefer one with an easy to find pause button, and a slot to insert an SD card to expand the memory.
Assuming an audiobook is 8 - 9 hours long, you can put close to 60 audiobooks on an 8 gig MP3 player. If you want to have more than that, you will need to have an SD card inserted in the MP3 player.
Then you will need a cable that connects your MP3 player to your laptop.

Now, go to your library overdrive website. Log in, Pick out an audiobook that you want to listen to. When you check it out, it will ask "Have overdrive for windows?" Click on that. Save it to your downloads folder on your laptop.
Then go to your overdrive program.
Go to "file" Click on "open". If it all went correctly, you should see your audiobook there. Click on the audiobook title, and it will download all the parts of the audiobook to your overdrive program.
Then hook up your MP3 player to your laptop. Hit the "Transfer" button on the overdrive program.
Now your audiobook is on your MP3 player.

However, it will not play the sections of the book in order . . . unless you rename each section of the audiobook.
So what I do, while the MP3 player is still hooked up to the laptop, I go to the task manager section of the laptop where I see the drive that is the MP3 player. On my laptop. it recognizes the MP3 player as the "E' drive, and the SD card that is inserted in the MP3 player as the "F" drive.
So I go to the "E" drive (or "F" drive, wherever I chose to save the audiobook) and I rename each section of the audiobook by just putting a number as the very first part of the title of the book.
So, say you downloaded "The Paper Palace" audiobook. Rename section one as "1-the paper palace" rename section two as "2-the paper palace" etc. all the way through.
That way the audiobook will play in the appropriate order.
The audiobook will stay on your MP3 player until you delete it.

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Oh thanks for resurrecting my thread!

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Song of Achilles - really beautiful love story and amazing narrator

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really slow with audiobooks so I can never listen to them in the 21 days libby allows. Are there options for accessing audiobooks that are cheaper than audible?

Do you listen to it on regular speed? Try 1.2. It goes faster and it sounds more conversational. My friend listens to them on 1.5 but that makes my head spin.

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I'm currently listening to The Most Fun We Ever Had and enjoying it. I'm probably halfway done.

I enjoyed Rules of Civility because I love that narrator. The book itself is a pretty slow burn but she made it come alive.

I liked The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I HATED The Women.

Just For the Summer was a fun rom com book. I ended up reading the rest of the author's works on my Kindle because they were free with Kindle Unlimited and I think one was done by a narrator I know I don't like.

Going Zero was entertaining. It's not great literature but the premise is interesting (people try to disappear from the grid to win a prize) and it was fast paced.

Very Sincerely Yours as another rom com. I bit more twee than I'd normally be into but it was cute.

I listen to all Stephen King's books on Audible. He gets amazing narrators, and I even like it when he narrates, which is kind of funny because he has a really nasally voice but for some reason it's perfect.