On the Iphone I use an app called "Libby" to check out audiobooks from the local library. I believe there is also a version for Android.

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Originally posted by bubbatime:

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Originally posted by xanth:
If it was just me, I wouldn't pay for a subscription, I'd just continue to use the local library.

Yes. Many libraries have audiobooks that you can check out, or even an app that you can use that works like Audible to check out audio books for free.

I really like Audible, recently finished a biography of Winston Churchill that was great....all 50 or so chapters of it.

I find myself grabbing books I would not normally have read but want to read...if that makes sense

Like War and Peace....I got 100 pages into that tome and could not go further

I have a 20 hour drive coming up and need to find some brain candy for the trip.

Monster Hunter International is good brain candy. An easy listen. The author is very firearms literate. It is almost like listening to gun porn.

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
I really like Audible, recently finished a biography of Winston Churchill that was great....all 50 or so chapters of it.

I find myself grabbing books I would not normally have read but want to read...if that makes sense

Like War and Peace....I got 100 pages into that tome and could not go further

I have a 20 hour drive coming up and need to find some brain candy for the trip.

Garrison Keilor reading 'Tales from Lake Woebegone' is my one and only audio book.

My late friend, the owner of my LGS, introduced me to audio books, probably over 30 years ago. I thought it was the stupidest thing ever invented.

BUT, he gave me a couple and I was hooked. I never read a book anymore, just stick it in the CD player (a nice Bose) at the house or in my Pilot's player.

On road trips it's fantastic, just put in a new Jack Reacher or an over-the-top western from Graphic Audio and we're all set to go (wife is hooked, too, but still uses her Kindle and reads).

I, long ago, got tired of the Top 40 (or 50 or whatever), and Country ain't what I grew up on, nor do I care for today's version at all, so I either listen to an Audio Book or my Pandora with Bob Wills, Ernest Tubbs, Hank Snow, Tex Ritter, the Sons of the Pioneers or similar artists when driving.

Works for me.

Bob

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
I have a 20 hour drive coming up and need to find some brain candy for the trip.

If you're into WWII history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer should keep you occupied. He was a journalist who lived in Berlin during the 1930s, so his insights are first hand. Although the academics somewhat panned this tome, I believe it is because Shirer wasn't one of "them." IIRC, it's around fifty hours, so it will get you there and back again.

Adolf Hitler by John Toland is also a good piece on the same time period.