• Thalestr@beehaw.org
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    15 hours/month is… pretty awful. An avid reader (or listener, in this case) will chew through that in no time at all. Another thing that concerns me is payouts. Spotify is notorious for having atrocious payouts to creators. I wonder how this carries over to their audiobook offerings.

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        8-12 are my lighter reads. Some of my favorites are 25-30.

        I do do double speed, so I wonder if that ticks twice as fast on there. But 15 hours a month is pretty bad.

        Edit: I just got an email from audible. I’ve listened to ~20900 minutes (348 hours) in 9 months (38.5/month) on there this year, and I’ve used Scribd and Libby way more. Obviously I’m not typical, and supporting me isn’t reasonable. But since they sent that the same day I made this post I thought I’d add it.

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            There’s also the possibility that they’re the only service out there that doesn’t let you control playback speed. Or that they take the most restrictive of playback speed and length of book so people who listen at slowed down speed are screwed too

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      Yeah when I’m driving a lot for work I could burn through that in 2 days…and not even be able to finish out the second day before I have to change to something else 😂

      Another reason to make me glad I setup audiobookshelf.

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      It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!

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        Technically not free if you have to have a paid sub in order to access them. In that case it’s a paid trial with the opportunity to pay even more. Which sounds even worse for Spotify.

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          Technically yes, but if you’re already paying for the thing you actually wanted then it’s essentially a free trial on top of that