Let’s talk. Audiobooks are one of my favorite ways to read books. I enjoy a tandem read like you wouldn’t believe. It’s such an immersive and all encompassing experience. You are really sucked into that book. I also like to just listen to audiobooks by themselves. I find them really fun, but they are expensive. They are a very expensive form of media to consume books through.
So let’s talk about some ways I get audiobooks on the cheap. First off, there is nothing better than the Libby app. Let’s talk about how you can get your Libby app going. So if you have a library in your area, awesome, go to that library, sign up for a library card. If you don’t have a library in your area, there’s lots of places around the United States that will let you pay a small fee for a non residential card. There’s also a lot of places that will just give you a card, regardless if you could pay or not, if you’re interested in knowing the cards that I have, I can make a separate video on that, but it is easily googleable and probably faster to get the information that way than for me. So you get your library card, you hook it up into either Libby, there’s also two other apps that do it this way. There’s hoopla and overdrive. I use Libby and you plug your library card into that and you can reserve or hold and listen to audiobooks and ebooks your heart’s content. You can either watch or read it through the. You can either read it through the Libby app or you can have it sent to your e reader. I have it sent to my Kindle and then the audiobook I just listen to through the Libi app. And I love it. I listen to a majority of my audiobooks that way because it not only supports your local library, but I mean, it’s pretty close to free, even if you have to pay a monthly or a yearly fee for a non residential card, it’s a lot less than you’ll ever pay for audiobooks. So Libby will be your restaurant.
Up next, I like Everend. This is another subscription app. It is about $11 a month, I believe. And you can listen to as many books within their main catalog as you want. There are certain titles that have hours associated to them, and once you listen to too many of those books, they will cut you off on those particular novels. But you can listen to the non titled ones or the non timed ones as much as you want. And it’s only $11 a month. And I feel like they have some really great titles on there. They have Octavia Butler. They have Rebecca Roenhorce.
I listen to the reformatory by Tinana. I do. They have all her books on the as well. I just sum up to that on Everend, they have some really obscure books, too, that I could not find in the library, but I found on Everend. They also have ebooks, but I never use their ebook function, unfortunately. I can’t tell you how that works. I only use it for audiobooks. But $11 a month to listen to books like that is absolutely amazing. And I love that. I will never ever cancel my ever random subscription. It used to be known as scribid, but it’s ever under now.
Up next is Libro FM. They have a membership fee for 1499 where you get a credit a month that you can listen to. Full disclosure, I am a part of their Advanced Listening Catalog members. You can also apply to be part of their ALC program. It’s right there in the app or on the website. But their app is really easy to use, very u easy to navigate. They have all of the latest titles. They have curated lists on there. They have, they celebrate monthly, like if it’s heritage months or LBGTQI a month, Pride Month, they will absolutely have lists associated for that, make it easy for you to find things to listen to. I really love that, and it’s a really good app.
Another way that I buy audiobooks on the cheap is chirp. This is an app that I have on my phone. I believe they also obviously have a website, but they have random sales and have books randomly for very cheap. I got the gods of shadow by John Glenn for 4,99 on trip. I don’t buy from them regularly, but I do watch their sales. I get their emails. I subscribe to their newsletter. And when I see a book that I know I’m gonna eventually wanna read or I wanna read soon or what have you and it’s on a really good sale. I just grab it and I have it and I’ve got some really good titles for very cheap on trip.
And again, the app is easy to navigate. It is easy to play your books through, works really well, highly recommend. And while this isn’t necessarily a way to buy audiobooks, there is also net galley. Most people know what. Net Galley is, but if you do not, it is a website or an app that you can download. I prefer to go to the browser for this and listen to the books on the app. But anyway, through the browser, you go to netgalley.com and this is where you get advanced reading, copies of books from major publishers, indies, all those kinds of things. You can get ebooks and or you can get audiobooks.
Now the cat with. Net Galley is it’s not guaranteed you request it. And if the publisher or. Net Galley decides that they want your opinion, they will grant you access to the title. You can get denied, and it does take a little bit of maintenance and upkeep in order to continuously get approved. You must read the books, you must review them in order to keep your percentage high, which in turn grants you more access to more titles by more publishers. So there is a little bit of work involved with that one, but it is a really great way to get audiobooks once you have a rhythm down. All I say is don’t go on there and request too much at once and you’ll bury yourself. It’s really hard to dig your way out. I think that’s enough for now. I’ve rambled for about 5 minutes. I don’t even know if anyone’s still here, but if you are, kudos. You’re a real one. Thank you so much for sticking around. And I really hope you find some way to enjoy audiobooks through this video.