Audible Review & Free Trial

I recently have started getting into audiobooks.  It seems like I'm always overwhelmed, I have so many books to read but I need to clean house, care for the kids, exercise... the list goes on.  So I started getting some audiobooks for review.  In the past I always felt like they were a pain to listen to.  I need to be able to hear my kids and what's going on around me and I thought with headphones in, I wouldn't be able to.  The thing is, I can!  Even with the volume fairly loud I can hear what's happening, when a kid gets hurt, when someone needs something, etc.  I was also worried about when I go out for my walks alone, whether it would leave me vulnerable, but if it's a particularly loud one I just leave one headphone out of my ear.  It's probably be a little extra cautious, but better safe than sorry, right?

I get audiobooks for review and I always use my audible app on my iPhone and iPod to access them (I have to load them from my computer since I get them from the publisher).  It's easy to use and keeps track of everything for me.  I don't even have to log in to my audible/amazon account.  But when I was offered a chance to get a couple audiobooks from audible.com itself, I jumped at the chance. 

This review is regarding the website and the process of selecting and receiving my audiobook.  I had used audible in the past, but it had been a few years.  But my audible account seems to be the same info as my amazon account so logging on was easy as pie.

I really like how well things are tagged.  I could go by age groupings, I looked up 'teen' audios first, or by genres, I looked up 'sci-fi and fantasy' next.  Deciding on which I would choose was hard, there are too many I want!  But I finally decided on Game of Thrones and Written in Red and I put them in my cart.  The check out is easy.  Since I had credits I just marked them as having credits (clear and easy to understand) and I was able to go through easily.  But if I had paid it would use my amazon information, including my credit card listed there.  Very easy to use!

Overall I was very happy with my experience with audible.  It seems like I had used it a few years ago and had more problems so I think all those kinks have been worked out.  I especially loved that I didn't have to plug my phone into my computer and wait for hours for everything to download to it.  It's all right there on my app!  All I had to do was sign in and it appeared.  Honestly, that was my favorite part.  I always dread trying to transfer my other audiobooks to my devices so no transfer needed is a huge bonus.

Anyway, you can give audible.com a try too, just go to THIS page.  You do have to sign up for a membership, but you can cancel at any time, even before the trial ends so that you aren't charged.  This is a great way to test out whether audible might work for you, or to try out audiobooks, in general.   

Side Note: Maja from The Nocturnal Library mentioned that her "favorite feature is that you can return a book if you don't like it for some reason, be it the narrator or the book itself, no questions asked! You just go to your account, return it, and you get your credit right back."

I love that because I know from experience that some narrators just don't work for me.  So thanks Maja for letting us know! 

Disclosure: I was given two credits for doing a review of the site and process.  All opinions expressed are my own and I was not paid or influenced in any way.  Big thanks to audible for providing me with this opportunity!