If you like to listen to audio books, you don’t need to buy the expensive audio books on CD. There are some cheap alternatives: you can either download or rent audio books online. Renting audio books is like renting DVDs, you join a monthly plan and you can rent unlimited audio books in a month. You receive and return the audio books in the same pre-paid envelope. If you choose the 2 books at a time plan, don’t wait until you finish all books to return them, and then wait for another week to receive the next 2 books. The trick is after you finish one book, return it first while listening to the second one. When the audio book clubs receive the returned book, they will send you the next one on your book list. So you don’t need to waste any time waiting for the books to be shipped back and forth.
Alternatively, you can also download digital audio books online. You can buy and download individual audio books or join the monthly plan. However, unlike audio book rental (which allows you to rent unlimited audio books), the download plan only lets you download 1 or 2 books each month. You can burn the audio titles to CD only once as a measure to protect intellectual property. Multiple CDs may be needed for one audio title (it depends on the length of the audio title, not the file size). Audio book clubs record the audio books in different formats. Simply Audiobooks and AudioBookWorm have audio books in MP3 or WMA format while Audible uses a unique .aa file format which can be played in iTunes and Windows Media Player. Also check the list of compatible portable device (e.g. Apple iPod, Creative® Zen, SanDisk® Sansa™) to make sure your device can be used.
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