In many of the book groups I'm a part of on FB there is talk about Scribd, especially for those of us who mainly listen to audiobooks. I saw a great deal right after new years day to get Scribd for under $8 a month. I jumped on it. I've had it for 2 weeks now and I'm so very glad that I signed up for it. Books that I have waited MONTHS for from the library are available immediately. There are audiobooks GALORE. It's like having every library book immediately available. This doesn't mean I'll stop using my library, but it's easy to just hop on the app and pull up a book to listen to while I scroll through IG/FB and sometimes I'm so caught up in the book, that those apps never get opened. I read somewhere that if we opened a book every time we went to open an app- the average American would be able to read 200 books a year. I'm giving it a shot- kind of.
In the first two weeks I've saved somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 books/audiobooks that I want to read/listen to. I've read 2 books and listened to 1. I'm currently listening to $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make A Living by Chris Guillebeau.
I have Audible. I think this will help me stop making impulse buys during the sales. And now I can listen to just about anything whenever I want. I won't end my subscription to Audible as I love owning audiobooks as well.
If you've been following me, you know I have a problem with buying books. So far in January I've bought 0 books. Woohoo! I'm hoping to keep this up for a few months except for auto buy authors. By having a subscription to a huge library of books and audiobooks and an actual library card I'm less likely to buy a book/audiobook.
I'm really happy that I signed up and I look forward to increasing my reading/listening this year.
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