Frustrating
As always a new update means a dent in functionality. I want a lot less of having random new books thrown in my face & a lot more of easily accessing the books I’m reading in the order of most recent activity. And with today’s update my books aren’t in order of recent activity and don’t automatically update their order when I listen to a new one. I have to switch sort categories back and forth to force it to update. The app undoes all my sorting overnight, so things are back in the app’s weird sort order when I go to listen again! Also, It’s now more steps to remove books from my phone. I have to go to a drop-down menu instead of just swiping. And the three little dots to do anything with a book are too close to the play button, so it takes several attempts to get the correct result & my fingers aren’t that big. When searching only the first twenty books show, so when I’m wanting to listen to a particular author, I can only choose from a few of their titles even when searching the books I own! While you’re fixing things I’d love to be able to sort by narrator. Those of us with lots of books have favorites & consider them as important as authors. Interesting that a lot of the five star reviews here are for books, not the app
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I love Audible!
I loved reading books from a very young age. In my early 20’s my grandmother would give me books to read after she was we done with them .. steamy AVON novels… lol. She was such a soft-spoken, gentile, old-fashioned lady. And to know she was reading these steamy books gives me a giggle even to this day.
I discovered Audible about 10 years ago. It was such an easy fun way to listen to the books I loved, and discover new books to get immersed in. When you get a really good author with a really good narrator, it really pulls you into the story. and there’s so many genres to choose from! Fantasy, sci-fi, biographies, mysteries and suspense, romance – Children’s books, as well! And you can do a quick search for whatever you’re in the mood for by typing into the search bar, and recommendations, will pop up for you to choose from. And you can add books to your personalized library!! The convenience of listening to your books is great. I can put my earbuds in and do anything while listening to my book. It makes chores easier, long drives go by quickly, going for an evening walk more entertaining. I even listen to my books as I fall asleep. There’s useful functions in the app you can utilize, ie; bookmark certain pages, set a timer so the story stops when you want, save certain clips if you’re using audible with learning materials, and many other useful features that help.
I recommend Audible to everyone!
I discovered Audible about 10 years ago. It was such an easy fun way to listen to the books I loved, and discover new books to get immersed in. When you get a really good author with a really good narrator, it really pulls you into the story. and there’s so many genres to choose from! Fantasy, sci-fi, biographies, mysteries and suspense, romance – Children’s books, as well! And you can do a quick search for whatever you’re in the mood for by typing into the search bar, and recommendations, will pop up for you to choose from. And you can add books to your personalized library!! The convenience of listening to your books is great. I can put my earbuds in and do anything while listening to my book. It makes chores easier, long drives go by quickly, going for an evening walk more entertaining. I even listen to my books as I fall asleep. There’s useful functions in the app you can utilize, ie; bookmark certain pages, set a timer so the story stops when you want, save certain clips if you’re using audible with learning materials, and many other useful features that help.
I recommend Audible to everyone!
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The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Women is a beautifully written account of female nurses serving in the Vietnam War. This book invokes the many emotions of love, loss, trauma and the after affects of serving as a military nurse and returning home to war protests. The Women brings a flood of memories from when I was a 17 year old high school junior when this war ended. My male classmates lived with the fear and jeopardy of being drafted. Daily broadcasts of the war hounded our lives. It was good to hear of the rarely heard experiences of females serving in the war. I now have an even greater appreciation and admiration for my 74 year old fiancé, Dr. John L. Rigg, for creating the Functional Recovery Program to treat TBI & PTS at Eisenhower Hospital at Fort Eisenhower, formerly known at Fort Gordon, where so many Vietnam Vets were based, in Augusta, GA. The number of men who seek treatment in the “FRP” far out number the women who attend the 3 week program. I’m always happy to learn when a woman has the courage to join the group. Applause to Kristin Hannah for creating “The Ranch” and Frankie’s continued education, in order to offer the, oft forgotten female vets, the opportunity to heal through Post Traumatic Stress therapy. Thank you, Kristin Hannah, for bringing “The Women” and their memories of serving in the Vietnam War to our attention.
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Love the App, Losing Access when you pause or end is terrible
I understand that all apps want to make money. Life changes, and schedules don’t always allow time to fit in audio books. Becoming a mom has changed my schedule tremendously and having another cutie on the way has made it difficult to work, be a wife, etc. with adjusting to life’s beautiful changes. It really bothers me that I pay for a credit and they designed for it to go away; not allowing for you to come back and pick a book anytime even after canceling. I don’t know what they have to lose with allowing customers to use their credits after canceling. We paid for a service. It’s greedy. I have 7 credits and totally forgot to cancel this thing. The only message I get is you have until the end of the month to use all 7! I think it’s great if you have a steady time to dedicate to audible books like I used to have. Not very flexible for life changes in my opinion. I also think I have every right to the books I previously listened to. Once you cancel, you can’t go back to your books you had in your library. Terrible. There should be consideration for customers supporting this business. Whats wrong with being able to catch up on a book and use another month credit when you are ready? Not everyone zooms through. If this could be made more flexible, with possible refunds or even just keeping the credits you earn, I believe there will be more satisfied customers.
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A soldier’s life
This didn’t use the common rpg traits but for all intents and purposes absolutely was and a most excellent one at that. I rate it 4.6 star and easily would have given it a point or two higher if it hadn’t ended so soon. I mean it’s not about the actual length though that’s always a plus when it’s a great story to be long as well but my meaning lyes more in where the story was chosen to end more specifically where Eric was personally. Just wish it showed much more progress reflected from him personally. I mean at the very least to have shown the progress he already must have with everything done to increase his attributes plus personal gains. But we’re left in the dark for half the book. Also was incredibly frustrating to not see him obtain or learn any extra spells. Uhg. But I’m pretty picky with my lite of and haven’t left a review for one tenth of all them so when I say this was worth it and I don’t regret picking and using the credit that I hope encourages you to enjoy as well.
I expect it to continue into a great series worth following and it’s set up for the second to really take off. But again the first, this first book was plenty entertaining. I’ll be very surprised and extremely disappointed if the next book doesn’t double down on entertaining value
Cheers
I expect it to continue into a great series worth following and it’s set up for the second to really take off. But again the first, this first book was plenty entertaining. I’ll be very surprised and extremely disappointed if the next book doesn’t double down on entertaining value
Cheers
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A must read for read for all re/habilitation professionals
Literally every 5 minutes is a comment, insight, phrase or idea worth noting. This story is profoundly important for anyone working in neuro rehabilitation to understand HOW the brain makes changes, and why the science is both important and illuminating whilst also too often being misguided and arrogantly wrong. But most of all, it’s a reminder that brains do recover, that habits hide recovery and that providing splinter skills that prioritize participation in life through sub-optimal compensation instead of remediating missing components of body structure and function is just not good enough.
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good for listening, awful as a library
It’s a good app for listening to books. But it’s clear that Audible’s main goal is not to make it easy to read a book you already have, but to try to get you to buy more. When I open the app I get nothing but ads. Click on library and I see my books, but there’s no way to search my library. The search button gives me a seemingly random list of matching books from their catalog, which may or may not include books in my library. I’ve purchased well over 100 books in the past 20 years, most of which are in the Archive, but I can’t search the Archive. You can put books into collections, but the process is awkward and there’s no way to identify orphaned books not in any collection. It’s galling for three reasons: it would be so easy for them to add a better search and an “Uncollected” collection; it is so obvious that they withhold any features that might make it easier for you to find books you’ve already purchased when they might be able to tempt you to buy more; and this is the only app you can use to listen to books from Audible—who also pressures authors to release some books as Audible exclusives so you have no choice. Thankfully our public library has a pretty good selection of audiobooks, but even they don’t have any of the Audible exclusives. It may not be a monopoly but it ain’t for lack of trying.
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Disappointment… 😔☹️😞
(BTW I would have rated this app a zero but it wouldn’t let me)
I’ve been searching for a website/app that you can read on for completely free (I’m not allowed to spend money on apps) and when I saw audible, I thought it was perfect and was relieved that my long search was finally over.
Much to my great disappointment though, I realised that I’d spoke too soon when I said that audible was perfect. Turns out, you can only read - I should say listen - samples on audible, not full books. You can only have the full book if you’ve got a membership and then you can listen to them for free for a while before you have to start paying and -like I said before - my parents don’t let me spend money on that type of stuff. So I was really disappointed. Like, frowny face times infinity disappointed 😢.
So that other people don’t feel this horrible disappointment that I felt, please please please make a few books free for every genre. 🙏
Other than that, the books on this app are really good and I wanted to keep listening and see what would happen next after the sample. However, I recommend you change the narration cos the narrators voice is a little boring and very monotone 😴😑🥱.
I’ve been searching for a website/app that you can read on for completely free (I’m not allowed to spend money on apps) and when I saw audible, I thought it was perfect and was relieved that my long search was finally over.
Much to my great disappointment though, I realised that I’d spoke too soon when I said that audible was perfect. Turns out, you can only read - I should say listen - samples on audible, not full books. You can only have the full book if you’ve got a membership and then you can listen to them for free for a while before you have to start paying and -like I said before - my parents don’t let me spend money on that type of stuff. So I was really disappointed. Like, frowny face times infinity disappointed 😢.
So that other people don’t feel this horrible disappointment that I felt, please please please make a few books free for every genre. 🙏
Other than that, the books on this app are really good and I wanted to keep listening and see what would happen next after the sample. However, I recommend you change the narration cos the narrators voice is a little boring and very monotone 😴😑🥱.
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Some of us Just Fall - close to genius.
This is a brilliantly written and beautifully read account of living with complex illness. I found it compelling and moving. Such devastating insights into the shortcomings of our health service and the inadequacies so many of our assumptions and definitions of illness and wellness. But most of all this is the story of someone so alert to the beauty of the natural landscape, the wonder of Grasmere and the Lakes, the stepping in the footprints of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, John Clare, Thomas de Quincy. Polly Atkin is widely read and uses her learning in the service of profound wisdom and shared experience. It’s so well written that even the medical passages I found fascinating and astonishing. All in all I relished every chapter, feel it has strengthened me in compassion and understanding, and made me want to go back to the earliest pages straight away to hear again the exquisite descriptions of Grasmere. The chapter on Chronicity I found especially brilliant. I think this work is close to genius. And essential reading/listening for anyone with a body and heart.
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Pay 16 bucks and no credit?
Once upon a time I loved this app, I work a third shift job so listening to books was a great way to pass the time and I always had something fun to listen to. A big part of paying 16 dollars a month is to receive a credit to purchase any book in their library which is nice as some of the things I listen to is odd ball stuff that isn’t always free. All this sounds great right? Well it is until Apple takes your 16 bucks , it updates your account that it has been renewed but no credit. Ok this has happened more than once. I have over 600 hours of playtime versus my metrics and have had it happen 3 times. Now I did what anyone would do, you contact customer service and explain the situation and they give you the credit no problem right? RIGHT? Wrong , even though they can clearly see my renew date was updated and that I did not receive the credit as has happened in the past, nope…. Look I’m not asking for any special treatment, I just want the bill of goods that I paid for and that to date has not be resolved and it is disappointing to say the least that a company’s customer service is not bright enough to look at your account which I’m sure has more deltails than I have as far as metrics in my end to conclude that I am not trying to “get one over” on you . All I wanted it the credit which I pay for to be honored. I guess that was too much to ask.
Buyer beware is all I am saying here because it has happened multiple times to me
Buyer beware is all I am saying here because it has happened multiple times to me
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