One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

Past Audiobook Minutes:
by Kelley Armstrong (779 min)
by Sarah Addison Allen (468 min)
by Diana Gabaldon (1962 min)
by Rachel Vincent (833 min)
by Rachel Vincent (692 min)
by Kate Morton (1238 min)
by Paolo Bacigalupi (548 min)
by Sherryl Woods (692 min)
by Erin Morgenstern (819 min)

Total Minutes: 8031

Great start, Meghan!

December 2011 Minutes
by Susan Mallery (391 min) 12/4/2011

December Total: 391 min
Lifetime Total: 8422 min

Where do you get your audio books from?

I get most of mine from Audible. It is about $23 a month for 2 books a month. Plus they always have books for $5 or 3 books for 2 credits deals. Plus the first audiobook you get is free. I just started doing it this year and have found I really like it especially since I have a 45 minute commute to work.

I've seen advertisements for it. Are they MP3's? Can you put them on your iPhone? Do you only get to keep it for a month or yours forever as long as the technology allows? I wonder if it would work while I am in China? Have there been any where you disliked the reader so much? I tried listening to Marked on audio (from library) & the voices were god awful. I nearly clawed my eardrums out.

Mad Scientist wrote: "I've seen advertisements for it. Are they MP3's? Can you put them on your iPhone? Do you only get to keep it for a month or yours forever as long as the technology allows? I wonder if it would ..."

I have them all on my iPhone, but you can put it onto any MP3 you please. Once you get it, they are yours as long as technology will allow you. I am just waiting for the HP ones because I heard they are phenomenal on audio. I am pretty sure as long as you have your MP3 and you can connect it from your computer to whatever device you are listening to it on you will be able to listen to it in any country that you are in. On Audible people can rate the overall, story, and narrator so you can determine whether or not you may like it before it starts.

There have been quite a few that have surprised me. Like the Stray series by Rachel Vincent and Ship Breaker. I REALLY liked those on Audiobook. I am looking forward to also reading them in paper format. There have been some that I just dislike period. I am not into mellow voices and for audios I like a little bit of comedy or action to keep me wanting to keep listening.

I love the James Patterson audiobooks! (also from library) I pick them up when I have a long car drive ahead of me, WI to FL. I dont like stopping.

I think I know what I want for Xmas now! There are many long drives to get to one good place to another in China. I bring my nook & kindle but I hate to miss the country side. Even if after awhile it is all rice fields. This is just amazing to hear. I have an extra iPhone that is empty that would be perfect for loading up these books.

Any suggestions about the site? Can you friend others like on here?

You know I am not sure. The site I think is fairly simple to manuever around. If you have any questions feel free to ask. It tells you exactly how to download onto iPods and the like or you can get an app on the iPhone or iTouch to download them as well.

An app!! Well hello to audio books. I have 5 hours to drive tomorrow so I'm so excited to hear all this. I'll check it all out when I get the computer on ;)

It has standard & high quality download. Which do you prefer? Any noticable difference?

I do Standard...I don't know if I have tried the HQ download...maybe on the next book I download I will. I have found no problems with Standard though.

I didn't get a free book :( They took a credit right away. Ah shucks! I'm going to have to call them tomorrow.

And darn if I didn't have a hard time getting it to download into my iTunes!!! Wipes brow. I was about to bop my computer and say "Give me" like a 2 year old poppet.

But I now have Clockwork Prince after an hour of browsing (& an hour of cursing the confounded technology of this computer!!) I could not pick which book to try first. I was a Book Lover in a Book Store! *grin*

I know there are SOOOOO many books and it doesn't matter the price of the book because they are all the same with the credits. Unless you find the good deals. But most are more expensive than 11 dollars per book.

Now I have to learn how to focus on the book. I like the backwards 30 sec feature! & how it counts the minutes for you :) Now to get my free book & I will be sold!

:)

audible has great sales as well...i always stock up during them...I think once a year or so, they have a first in series sale, where like 100 different series have their first book for like 4.95; they did a halloween one not long ago...its jsut a matter of keeping an eye out. I love the audible app for my itouch, and you can also sync any audiobook cd's that you mgiht upload as well to it, and listen through that

also check out your library for audiobooks...if you get the wma file (at least for me), I can listen to them on my ipod and they show on the audible app

Great advice ladies! I'm nearly done with my first book & cracked open 2 badges and made gold in one already.

aren't the badges awesome...lol! yeah, i'm a dork!

I love the Badges I just wish I could figure out exactly what I needed to do to get them all...I am just a bit of a nerd like that. :)

i was reading a blog on it somewhere...if you google audible badges, and it breaks them down..but I think there are 2 that even those avid readers haven't gotten yet

I had like 9 or 10 of them, and then lost them all when the iOS5 update screwed up my ipod...it corrupted my back-up and I lost everything

Dee wrote: "i was reading a blog on it somewhere...if you google audible badges, and it breaks them down..but I think there are 2 that even those avid readers haven't gotten yet

I had like 9 or 10 of them, ..."

Yeah I lost all of mine too. I had at least 7, but lost them all when someone hacked into my email account and I had to change the account name it was under. Luckily I didn't lose all my books.

I have 6 badges already. That was so fast. I have a few silver. One gold and one Diamond badge!! Is there anything beyond a Diamond? I"m curious to know. LOL!

I was seriously thinking about breaking down and doing a google search on the badges. I think I will wait just a little while longer ;) See if I can crack some more on my own.

I think Diamond is the highest...

I think so too!

by John Grisham (222 min) 12/23/2011

One of my favorite Christmas books! So happy to re-read it!

December Total: 623 min
Yearly Total: 8644 min

I'm going to steal your idea and do a top post with my ticker and them do the rest underneath.

No problem! I like to see my ticker at the top when I open my page.

I have the ticker for audio on my pages thread. I should move it to my audio thread too. I do like to see that I am getting somewhere. Even if it is at the pace of a slug. A teeny tiny baby slug.

I am still working on It is more than 45 hours so it will take me quite some time to get through it.

once you are done you will beat us all!

I am about 17-18 hours into it and currently in the second book now.

by Haruki Murakami (2810 min) 2/6/2012
by Jennifer Weiner (653 min) 2/18/2012
by Michael Lewis (434 min) 2/28/2012


February Total: 3497 min
2012 Total: 3497
Lifetime Total: 12541

Woot Woot ! Past the 10K mark!

by Kelley Armstrong (514 min) 3/18/2012
by Victoria Dahl (546 min) 3/24/2012

March Total: 1060 min
2012 Total: 4557 min
Lifetime Total: 13601 min

by Laini Taylor (752 min) 4/3/2012
by Janette Oke (457) 4/14/2012
by Maria V. Snyder (778) 4/28/2012

April Total: 1987
2012 Total: 6544
Lifetime Total: 15588

What'd you think of it?

Really good! Also the narrator is fantastic! I gave it 4 stars!

MS sent it to me on my Kindle a while ago; I'll have to read it soon!

by Anna Carey (390) 5/6/2012

May Total: 390
2012 Total: 6934
Lifetime Total: 15978