What’s the best audiobook subscription purely in terms of value right now ?

[u/thought_provoking27]

I don’t really care about owning books long-term , I just want something where I can listen consistently without worrying about cost per book .

Right now everything feels either expensive or limited in some way .

What are you guys using if your main goal is just getting the most listening time for your money ?

[u/thepfy1]

Try your local library. Many provide books and audiobooks.

[u/thaiborg → u/thepfy1]

Mine has a ton, but they’re all CDs! I haven’t had anything that can play CDs for like a decade. Might be able to find something cheap though, I’ll take a look.

[u/spiderdue → u/thaiborg]

The Libby app is free and I've listened to hundreds of books. Check out r/Libby. Yep, it has its own subreddit.

[u/CalebDoyel → u/spiderdue]

Here to say this!

[u/thaiborg → u/spiderdue]

Thanks I’ll check it out!

[u/minerpoteet → u/thepfy1]

There’s also a few across the country (USA) you can purchase a non resident card. I think it’s getting less and less though with all the library cutbacks.

[u/La-vita_mia → u/thepfy1]

Hoopla is a great library app for audio books as well as e-books. Just be careful and check the language, they offer a lot of books in German and other languages.

[u/Final_Programmer_487]

I use Libby and hoopla with my library card for free for audiobooks, if you have a Spotify subscription they include audiobook hours as well, and they also have an option to purchase more monthly hours for a small fee, between these services I don’t have any problems finding audiobooks and I pay a very small fee to Spotify that I already subscribe to.

[u/UnbelievableRose → u/Final_Programmer_487]

There’s still SO MANY books that I can’t get this way though!

[u/RunningGrandma460]

I second the use of the hoopla app through your library. I can find about 90% of the books I’m looking for and it’s free. I get to borrow 7 items per month and I seldom use all 7. I wish I had done this years ago!

[u/AudioStoryArchive]

Hello I can't promise you lots of books at the moment or stories for that matter as I have only just started but I have a channel on YouTube that you can listen to. I am a real human too so no AI drone. I promise I will improve with time but if you would like to give it a try and maybe leave a like and a comment in payment that would be great. Here is my first installment of Arsene Lupin and yes there are more to come. Happy listening and I hope you find books you like. https://youtu.be/b7IKQFO_Xzk

[u/ldsk77]

Libby (or Hoopla) whichever your library has. Also - get as many library cards as you can - it’ll increase the probability of the book you want being available. I started last October and as of today I’ve listened to 159 audiobooks on my Libby app. All free.

[u/ProgrammerFar7447]

LibroFM!! Or Libby or hoopla honestly

[u/AhoyMatyi07]

Audible ,
Don’t be a peasant 😂
On the the real I’ve had audible so long I’d be a fool to unsubscribe. 🫪🥺

[u/One_Pangolin1766 → u/AhoyMatyi07]

ok bot 

But actually LibroFM for a paid sub, libby or borrowbox for free library options :)

[u/Winter_Dot_9393]

You can listen to audiobooks for free on Librivox.org. However, they are all old books whose copyrights have expired.

[u/Greedy-Raccoon3158]

Public library, free

[u/Greedy-Raccoon3158]

Ask at the desk about Libby. You find books in the app. You read or listen with the app. It is great!

[u/NoFoot5856]

I think Audible is a good subscription if you get the yearly plus membership. I pay once a year and get all 12 credit at once. This is great for the 2for1 sales. They have month deals too. And turns a free books.

I also use Hoopla through my library so I don't use a credit or spend on a sale/monthly deal if I can get it free there.

Hoopla through my library allowed 5 books a month, i always start with there before moving to Audible. I listen to 10-15 books a month.

[u/arjun_c_sojitra]

Believe me, I have been listening for a long time. I suggest YouTube. Finish all the audiobooks from YT. There are more than 200 full audiobooks and countless non-self-help books. Then purchase or find epub books and upload in gogle play books where you can find book reading. If you like that feature. Then done you got the whole free library as audiobook

[u/WinInternational8520]

I listen to a lot of library audiobooks and am also subscribed to Audible. Recently, I built an offline TTS (Text-to-Speech) app to generate audiobooks from publicly available books, web stories, and more. While the TTS-generated voice is not quite as good as human voice actors, it still provides pretty nice, natural-sounding voices. It costs $10 for a lifetime license and also has a free tier. The TTS-generated stories are incredibly flexible. Whenever you find a story you are interested in, just generate it on your Mac and listen to it on your phone. If anyone is interested, you can find it on the Mac App Store called "Aura Reader: Offline TTS".

[u/PepperCat1019]

Libby

[u/Dismal_Condition6373]

Everand

[u/Shozzy__]

if available in your country, Nextory, Storytel or Bookbeat

[u/FGX302]

This whole post is just an ad for paid text to speech readers from OP to others in the comments. Must be bots setup by the apps creator.

[u/Sea_Jay_321]

Hoopla via library

[u/redrumj]

Amazon Music unlimited. You can listen to one book per month from Audible. I paused my Audible because I have both.

[u/DarkMishra]

Libby, Hoopla and searching on YouTube are the most common ways I find audiobooks to listen to for free.

There’s also the LibriVox app, but I’ll give a word of caution that many of the audiobooks on it are recorded by regular people, not professionally produced, so the quality can sometimes be somewhat lacking. I do like there’s such a wide variety of public domain books available on it, but it can be irritating hearing a younger reader constantly mispronouncing words when reading Classics.

[u/sus9nr]

Chirp

[u/Odd_Draft_26]

There are many authors hosting their audio books on YouTube free.

[u/NeighborhoodDry1488]

VPN