This is even worse with audio books. Book was written decades ago, read twenty years ago, and I'm supposed to give them $15-50 to listen to it? Get the fuck out of here.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, there's a lot of work that goes into recording and editing the audio for an entire book. As well as desire for good talent to do the reading and acting is an important part of audio books as well.

(said by someone who has never purchased an audiobook outside of humble bundle and sailed the high seas for the others)

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago

This is actually one thing your local library is great about. A lot of them use a service called Libby. It's free, works for the most part, automatically returns, and your ISP won't "strike" you for slipping up lol