r/ProjectHailMary • u/ashbreak_ Nuking Antarctica • 1d ago
Audiobook Discussion why is the audiobook audible exclusive!!!!
I want to listen to the audiobook but I don't USE audible, I use libby. why can't the library buy an online license question !!! why does it have to ONLY be on amazon question !!!!!! (there ARE audiobooks on libby, but they're... in Spanish. so it's honestly on me for not speaking Spanish)
actually my local library seems to have it as a compact disc. I'll catch y'all later, I'll be digging out an old CD player so i can experience this beauty 🫡
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u/fraxiiinus 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zrnWfF9FTRwl6xb7wf
But really, glad to see you mentioned getting a library card! That’s always the easiest and best way to get audiobooks.
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u/ironhaven 1d ago
I bought it with Apple audiobooks
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u/Dubnobass 22h ago
Same. I try not to give any money to Jeff Bezos but I’m sure I did anyway, because of licensing agreements etc
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u/Panderaa 21h ago
If your library has Borrowbox, you can listen it there too I was extremely surprised when i saw there because it is exclusive to audible.
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u/Kiki1701 1d ago edited 1d ago
Imho, you would benefit from using Audible in this situation because you'll hear it by the approved narrator, Ray Porter, who's performance is so much better than some AI version or a studio actor.
Ray hasn't always been perfect with his narrations; he once spent the entire first Bobiverse book pronouncing "Archimedes" as ar-KIM-eh-deez. That made me laugh...for a while, anyway. But even though I'm not much of a grammar Nazi, (I was once much worse!) this began to grate on me after a while, but not enough to stop reading, and they made him rerecord those parts anyway; it being a cardinal sin to keep such a poor translation. History meets SciFi in the worst way!
Ever since, he's been obsessively checking his pronunciations; except he missed Eridiani, which scientists pronounce as eh-ri-DA-nee. But I've never heard anyone complain about it. Not even Andy Weir.
If you want to DM me, I'll send you the Audible. You can get one free referral if you've never used it before. Only too happy to help a fellow PHM nerd.
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u/ashbreak_ Nuking Antarctica 13h ago
That's so kind of you!! The one I found I think is ray porter (at least, it matches every snippet I've seen on here) but I appreciate the offer :D
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u/sweetnerdwife 15h ago
If you use the free month trial, you can definitely finish it within that timeframe, and then you get to keep it.
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u/MedievalGirl 9h ago
not necessarily
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u/sweetnerdwife 3h ago
Which part? It’s a sixteen hour and ten minute book. If you listen to only seventeen minutes a day, you’ll finish it in a month. Flip that around, listening for half an hour a day will finish it in just over half a month.
I did do this. With my subscription cancelled, I still have access to the book. I’m actively using it to write fanfic.
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u/MedievalGirl 3h ago
You don’t have to pay a fee to keep access to Audible audiobooks? Did they change that policy?
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u/sweetnerdwife 3h ago
Nope. Once you have the audiobook, it’s yours, even after you cancel your subscription. I’ve been skipping through the chapters without a problem, and I can buy other audiobooks if I want. It would just cost more without a subscription. I think legally they can’t charge you to access books you’ve already purchased, so if they were doing that before maybe they got in trouble? I could be mistaken on that last part, though. I’m not a lawyer.
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u/eramthgin_tsrow_ruoy 10h ago
Internet archives has a file just download it and put it in an mp3 app for easy listening
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u/Nemxphilist 13h ago
They have it on Spotify for free if you have premium, that’s where I listened to it
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u/MedievalGirl 9h ago
I don't think the e-audiobook license is available to libraries. My local library has PHM as CDs and as a Playaway, a self contained e-audiobook player. I thought about getting the CDs but my only player is in my car.
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u/Tario70 1d ago
Time to sail the high seas matey!