AUDIBLE.COM is the place to go for audio books - Review by Marie

My husband and I are often going on long car trips. We had the brilliant idea of buying books on tape to make the time go by. Ya, right. They cost often $50, even $75 for a good length, popular book. And how often do you reread a book? Maybe once a year if it’s really, and I mean really good. So you basically spend $50 on a book you can use once, which doesn’t even look that smashing on your bookshelf. Then my fabulous husband found this audible.com. He actually found it because he was looking for an iPod shuffle for me. At the time they were offering a free iPod shuffle with a subscription. We just signed up, with no upfront costs they shipped us an iPod shuffle, and then all we had to do was fulfill our commitment to buy a certain number of audio books in a certain period time. That was not difficult given our frequent road trips and how unbelievably cheap they are! They don’t ship you a physical CD or tape. You have to download them to your computer, so there is an element of computer savvy involved. If you’ve ever used iTunes or any kind of mp3 player or music service, you’ll have no problem. I can’t tell you how much value we’ve gotten out of audible.com. We downloaded books we’ve always wanted to read, but just can’t find the time to. Our road trips go by in no time. We find ourselves downloading more and more books, even though we haven’t gotten through our first batch yet! All this for maybe the cost of one really good audio book you could pick up at the book store. Add on the price of a shuffle, and there’s no doubt, it’s one of the best internet deals out there. They don’t always have a promotional thing like the free shuffle, but I would check back around Christmas shopping time. Go to Audible.com