Is that app available from the app. store or from some other source?
On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:59 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Come on guys. Take it easy. All suggestions in how to do things are
welcomed here. This has been a great discussion to me, as I do use Audible,
but was not aware of some of the things folks have been posting about. I use
an app, Audio Book Converter, to change my books to MP3s, in case anyone is
interested. Audible is awesome, and worth the subscription, as Rory indicated.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com ;<http://www.macfortheblind.com/>
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Rory Smith <rory820@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rory820@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Well Sarah, you will always do one better than me! No one can even come
close to your aptitude at using third-party software
Regards,
Rory Smith
On Mar 3, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Actually I do one better. I convert all of my books I've read, or want to
read to mp3 using note burner. The quality is awesome. And the conversion
process is very fast, maybe depending on the length of the book, 4 hours.
But yeah audible are actually working on accessibility every so often and
it's grate to know they are willing to make the site work better almost
every 6 months.
Take care and be blessed.
On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:23 PM, Rory Smith <rory820@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rory820@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear Daniel,
I responded to your original message on this thread. I guess you must not
have taken me seriously or read it at all. I told you to immediately
switch to Audible. I told you that because I have been an audible User
for over the past 4 1/2 years. Pick up your phone and call the customer
service number two Join with the $22 price for the two credits per month
membership plan. Once you do this if you have not done it already,
download the Audible app to your iPhone, then Sign into the app with your
Amazon ID, or audible membership username and password. At this point the
only rule that you need to keep in mind, is that if you were going to
spend a credit on a book, try to make it at least above the $14.95 amount
By doing this, you will ensure that you are getting your moneys worth.
After that there is nothing you need to worry about as far as price is
concerned. Audible has a great listen moneyback guarantee so once you
listen to the book or when you initially purchase it with One of your
credits for the month, make sure to download the book onto your hard
drive using iTunes then spend your other Credit on a book that cost more
than $14 and download it as well to your hard drive, notice I said hard
drive and not your mobile device. Then simply make sure to put the Audible
customer service number into your contact list. Then sit back and enjoy
your books on whatever device you choose. Then before you go on spending
another $22 the next month around just simply call that number and say
that you would like to return your last two purchases and voilà! After
you refresh the page you will have two brand-new credits to buy two
brand-new books with! I absolutely do not feel any sort of guilty by
doing this, as I was a pain $22 a month customer for three years. About
four times a year I pay the monthly membership fee, but out of the
remaining months I call and ask them to put my membership on hold, so my
credit card is not charged. So long as you download the book to your hard
drive you will have it forever, it will disappear from your iPhone if you
ever upgrade or have to reinstall the app. But you can't simply sync it
back on there with itunes. There, I just gave away a huge secret of mine.
I apologize to Mary, as she has been wasting hundreds of dollars a year by
paying such an astronomical price for bugs that are eventually going to be
free for us to read through the library for the blind. I simply choose to
be an audible member, because I like to listen to books when they come
out. And by the way anything and everything that has to do with Sherlock
Holmes is all over audible! Now, I hope we can put this thread to bed Mr.
Daniel. It always amazes me how visually impaired people seem to make
things so much harder than they have to be. Good listening! And by the
way, you can also join the blind audible listeners Group on Yahoo.
Regards,
Rory Smith
On Mar 3, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I didn't find the expensive Sherlock Holmes you were talking about in
the iBooks store on Audible. Girl on the train in the iBooks store as an
audiobook is $23.95. If you're using an audible credit and you have the
platinum plan that was pre-paid the cost for that book would be one
credit which would be something less than $10 something like nine dollars
and 80 or 70 some sense.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
So if we were to put a few titles into context how would the credits
work out for them?
1. Girl on the train by Paula Hawkins iTunes £11.95 audible Buy For
£21.99
2.
Lord of the rings fellowship of the ring
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>By
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
J. R. R. Tolkien iTunes £8.95 Audible £16.99
3. Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver iTunes £9.95 Audible £16.99
4. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle,
Narrated by Stephen Fry iTunes £31.95 Audible Buy For £79.99
So putting these titles into perspective, iTunes seems to be the cheaper
of the two. Especially when you compare the price of number 4 in the
list.
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
On 3 Mar 2017, at 20:54, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
If you can pay for the platinum membership all at once, it's cheaper
than $24 a month. I would think the same is true for the gold
membership.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Greg Wocher <gwocher@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gwocher@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello,
I pay $14.95 a month for the Gold membership. This membership gives
you 1 credit a month. I believe the platinum plan is right around $24
a month and this gives you 2 credits a month.
Regards,
Greg Wocher
On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I believe you can join Audible without actually buying credits. But
then you're paying the price that everybody pays, with the possible
exception of 15% discount? I'm not really sure. I have been a
purchaser of credits forever.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thank you all for your wonderful feedback. Particularly in the areas
where I didn't know about so called credits.
I do have a question about the membership thing and that is: does
one have to pay so much a month? I know you have said that it's
cheaper in the long run but as for myself, I'd much rather pay for a
single book and not be tied to a monthly subscription of sorts. Can
you pay this way as well?
Just asking this for my own personal reasons.
On 3 Mar 2017, at 17:29, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I love audable, I will never buy from itunes. The quality is
excellent, and I can read my books on any platform, mac, windows,
iphone, android probably etc.
Take care and be blessed.
On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Well, I have never purchased an audiobook through iTunes. I have
been an audible member for many many years, long before I ever
thought of a Mac or before iPhones existed. For me, the number one
reason not to buy through iTunes is the cost. The books are
outrageously expensive. If you join Audible, at the platinum rate,
which gives you 24 credits a year, you can get 24 books a year at
a cost of slightly less than $10 per book. You have to pay for the
credits all at once, which might not be something everybody can
do. But if you can, it's for sure worth it if you are a reasonably
heavy user of audiobooks. They also have a gold level, which gives
you 12 credits per year, but the credits cost more, making your
book purchase cost you something like 13 or $14 per book. In
addition, if you run out of credits before your subscription
renews, you can get 15% off on other book purchases. And you can
choose A daily summary from either the Wall Street Journal or the
New York Times at no extra cost. Also, audible runs periodic sales
where you can get three books for two credits or sometimes two
books for one credit from a list that they provide on their
website.
I realize that none of these things were what you directly ask
about, but I think they're very important, since books from the
iTunes Store are expensive. As for the quality, since I have not
used a book purchased from iTunes, I obviously can't comment. But
between the so-called CD-quality, which is the highest one to give
you that warning and the next one down, if you're just listening
to your books on the average phone speaker or whatever, it doesn't
matter. We are talking about voice recording here after all, not
high fidelity music. I'm not saying there's no difference at all.
I'm just saying for me at least, it's not worth it. If you have
tons of space and want to use up twice as much space with audio,
go for it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Daniel McGee
<danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Hi all, first off, I would like to say that I have been buying my
audiobooks through iTunes/iBooks store for quite a few years now
and it has amounted to quite a collection. Recently though, I
have started using Amazon which owns Audible <x-msg://4/Audible>.
The reason to why I am thinking about switching has to do with
the audio quality .
I'm not completely sure, but isn't the sound quality of iTunes
audiobooks considerably lower than Audible <x-msg://4/Audible>'s
quality in the Audible <x-msg://4/Audible> app for IOS?
For those who have the Audible <x-msg://4/Audible> app do you
notice any difference in sound when you choose the high option
compared to standard? Besides the alert that says when selecting
it, warning: This setting will result in larger file sizes and
longer download times. Which is pretty obvious anyway. Just
wanted to know if the higher option really makes a difference or
not to the listening experience .
If not, I'll continue to use iTunes and if anyone could say why
they prefer Audibl <x-msg://4/Audible>e compared to iTunes I
would appreciate that as well.
I thanks
Daniel
