The best alternative to Audible *NOT SPONSORED*

in my opinion which is what this entire video will be my opinion audible isn't just unethical as has more recently come to light but has always been a crappy and overpriced platform that results in an all-round bad experience for the listener and apparently the authors and I've been using something vastly Superior for almost three years Shanna chicos in this video I want to tell you what the platform is and why it's better now I have no affiliation with any platform not this one nor any other so the opinions in this video are completely my own now what I'm going to say is applicable even if you're only wanting books in English but if you've seen some of my other videos you'd know that most of the time I listen to things in other languages but whether it's for English or any of the other 40-ish languages that this platform offers I would always take it up before Audible and if you are interested in language learning as a hobby then I'm about to blow your mind before we get to that in order to get the most out of the platform and the internet in general you will want a VPN and the one that I've been using for more than three years is who are you I'm surf shark you're a platypus I'm a VPN it's a disguise that's convincing but what do you want I'm doing the ad right now yeah it sucks you don't even know what I'm gonna say you're gonna say that websites track you and your service provider keeps a record of which websites you visit and which surf shock you can stay safe on the Internet by hiding your IP address and it now also has antivirus and blah blah blah no no none of that that's all true but I was just going to say that the audiobook provider I use is a cheaper better alternative to the current default option but you will need a VPN to access the whole catalog is that it I was also going to say that if people use my link to get a discount and referral code Lamont to get three extra months for free then even with surfshark the service I'm talking about is still cheaper because you can put surfshark on unlimited devices so it doesn't matter whether you're listening on your phone reading on a tablet or even doing both at the same time getting surfshark means that your whole household gets unlimited access to the real best audiobook catalog in the world what my ad was better yeah righto what was your gonna be I was gonna say are you a shark or a platypus get surf shop today Link in the description now I am finally going to tell you what audio book service it is that I'm talking about but before you just go to the website and stop watching the video and start doing stuff on the website you should know that it's a Swedish company and I have a lot of experience in this whole field I know things that you will also need to know but it's going to take you a lot longer to find them out yourself rather than just watching the video so just watch the video I've made accounts for this service through seven different countries over the years because they all have different pricing options and different languages that they offer at those prices Etc so I know what I'm doing with audio books not with life in general and we're talking about storytelling 1l or if you're pronouncing it in the original Swedish storytell first let me quickly summarize the five reasons that story tell is better than audible in my opinion that's all we're doing the reason counting in French apparently storytell uses a much more logical and customer focused payment model that will almost always work out cheaper in my experience it's a better working better designed app it just looks nicer and works better for most titles you have access to the ebook and the audiobook in the same place for no extra cost range of languages more than 40 of the bastards range of stuff in general even just in English which is actually pretty freaking embarrassing for audible just in case they weren't embarrassed enough look for me any one of these five advantages would be enough if all things were equal but all five that's just stupid before we get into the details of the five advantages let's quickly get some stuff out of the way hey I'm completely aware that audible is Amazon and that in the time that it takes me to finish this sentence Amazon probably pocketed about 10 billion dollars so no this video isn't trying to Stick it to the Man B while I fully support people taking up the ethical battle with audible my beef with it is simply that it's a crap platform see I'm not calling out any Creator who has worked with audible if you weren't very familiar with audiobooks I can see why you'd think that audible was good D I can't find any solid proof of this but it seems likely that storytell are in some kind of Licensing partnership with audible but that doesn't make using it the same as just paying audible directly worst case scenario you're still paying Amazon less paying less overall and getting a better service best case scenario you're paying Amazon nothing still paying less overall and still getting a better service so now to dig a bit deeper on each of the benefits I named firstly the better payment model storytell uses a subscription model that actually makes sense for the service being offered you know how everything's going subscription model and people are rightly wondering if this is just a way for businesses to make more money probably yeah yet what do audible ads always say for just x amount per month you get one audio book to keep that's weird why is audible one of the few services that lets you keep something is it because they're really nice people no in my opinion me Lord I think it's because audiobooks are a service for which it makes very little sense for the consumer to keep but it still makes big bucks because of how appear feeling it sounds it sounds good right you subscribe you get your book and even if you unsubscribe you still get to keep the book for as long as it remains on audible's catalog but let me boil that transaction down for you you just purchased an audio book that's it you just bought the book and although you can you're very unlikely to ever listen to that book again let's not kid ourselves audiobooks are something that it makes perfect sense for a customer to just subscribe to just like you do a gym you don't hear anyone complaining that their gyms gone subscription model because it was probably always subscription model like almost every gym because for gyms that just makes sense with storytell and some other audiobook platforms I should add you just pay every month and whatever you want to listen to or read in that month you just read or listen to you're not worried about wasting your free book on a short book or a boring book or a book that you only ended up needing one chapter of just be aware of that and make sure that you listen to the free sample before you actually decide on that audiobook it's just like you would rather rent access to the gym rather than buy every single piece of equipment there especially since whenever they like a gym can just remove a given piece of equipment and I get that there are some exceptions within an audio book setting but in general it makes more sense to just rent access to an audiobook catalog now I should point out that with storytell and some of the other platforms there are some caveats to this for example in some countries storytell does offer a limited subscription that gives you a certain number of hours per month but even that generally makes more sense and is a very reasonable price for example most countries have the standard limit of being 20 hours per month that's 40 minutes a day quite a lot of people would not be hitting that and therefore it makes sense to pay less to have that limit but even if you are on an hourly limit and you happen to reach it within a given month you can upgrade to another tier and just pay the difference remaining for that tier there are some countries where it's an unlimited subscription only but they're generally countries where the subscription is cheaper already now whether storytell is cheaper per month than audible depends primarily on two factors one how many books you listen to and two what country you sign up through if you were to sign up through for example Iceland the most expensive subscription and only listen to one book then yeah okay in that situation audible may have been cheaper assuming that they even had the book but how's audible's Icelandic catalog I'm guessing not great and then obviously the more books you get through the more value you get from a fixed price like storytell and if you sign up through basically anywhere that isn't one of the five Nordic countries it's probably going to be cheaper before we even talk about how many books you listen to and in case you're wondering yes every single country's subscription does offer the full English catalog except for the very cheapest subscription in India that is the only exception the rest offer the English catalog moving on to the second benefit and I won't spend long on this but for what it costs I can't really say that audible is a particularly Pleasant or smooth user experience now it probably has improved since I last used it but that's because when I did use it it was so clunky and bad that I never ever wanted to touch it again so basically audible had their shot and they missed storytelling is just a really smooth up with a bunch of features that work perfectly I never feel like I'm lost or like I don't know how to do something in the app in the channel members exclusive second half of this video I'll go into how I use the app for language learning and for other things and one tiny little thing that I think they could add to make it even better but basically I think it's perfect benefit number three for most titles you have access to the audiobook and the ebook in the same place for no extra cost and you're not pushed towards buying a Kindle now consider this alongside the first benefit because audible will tell you that if you've just spent your book for that month on a certain audiobook and if you now spin around seven times on the spot and sprinkle the blood of a virgin on your Kindle or something I don't know you get the ebook for free but when you break that deal down it's still not really a good one it lit me because although it sort of feels like you're getting two things for the price of one you're still really just getting that book it's the same title now personally I'm not really that big a fan of Kindles or dedicated e-readers I actually have a really good Kindle that I was given as a gift once and I just haven't really used it that much I get the appeal they are fantastic Tech but personally I'm just not drawn to that whole audible Kindle Eco space ecospace ecosystem whereas with storytell just every now and then I might flick over to the reader rather than just letting the audio player keep going because I'm subscribing to the service it's not a different title in a different place it's the same thing and yes it knows where I'm up to just like Whispersync and all that and I know that people will say well Audible and Kindle can do that as well but you've still at least got to commit to both titles even if you don't actually pay for them they're not considered like the one book and that brings us to to Advantage number four range of languages and ease of access to them now of course Audible has different languages but going back to point one with storytelling you're free to just browse around different languages you listen to a bit of a book and maybe that book's too hard because you're only intermediate in that language you can just stop and choose a different one because you didn't buy or commit to that book the other thing is within the app you can toggle the different language catalogs on and off so here we see I'm not interested in Danish so it's currently turned off but if I toggle it on and then search a given author I see their books in Danish as well as the other languages I have selected this is really useful for doing what I've recommended in other videos which is to take a book that you've read or heard already and then listen to it in your target language so if I want to see if Australian author Jane Harper has anything that's translated into Swedish I just toggle on Swedish and search her name and yeah there are her books in Swedish and since I have some other languages selected at the moment I see that I could also listen to those books in Finnish Danish and German and look I know for some people watching and to be like wow who cares I only speak English but the fact that a pretty random Australian author has not just been translated into these languages but audiobook recorded as well shows that there is demand for content in these languages and that's before we even get to language learning cases that's just within the countries themselves but with something like audible it's rarely even available let alone user friendly or cheap to access and that brings us to benefit number five which is that at least in my experience there is a better range on storytell and that's just within the English catalog which is kind of insane when you think about what Audible has pitched itself as being for the last decade the place to get audio books anecdotally at least I find it a depressing expensive place to hear crappy narrators give a 6 out of 10 performance the nurito can be less than human sounding now this last benefit does come with the caveat that I quickly mentioned before which is that it seems likely that storytell does license some of their content through audible so all I'm saying here is that given that storytelling seems to also have additional catalogs even within English and most of their non-english catalogs have nothing to do with audible the likelihood that you can find what you're looking for is going to be higher on storytell than it is with audible alone and if you still can't find something good then my advice would be to learn Swedish because in Sweden everything's an audiobook like you order a coffee they don't ask milk or sugar they ask like milk or audiobook okay it's not it's not a good joke but it's it's a real thing they do record a lot of audio books oh deadly things contrary to click on where you go to the website but that crash languages you on and for how many hours a month so I spent two days looking into which countries offer Which languages and how much various tiers in those countries were and I made a half hour video about it it was released a few days ago to the Tim Tam cartel my channel members but here is a quick excerpt now to give you an idea of the sort of detail that the video has or Turkish or both then you might want to sign up through turkey where it's about 2.60 us for unlimited access if you pay per month which is pretty good value I guess but if you pay up front for the year it will cost you under 19 US dollars for the year that's fine and all of that will be available in the channel members video because it's like super nerdy language detail stuff so if you want you can see that video as well as other channel member exclusives for just two US Dollars by clicking join underneath this video but if you don't need that kind of nerdy detail you can probably just look at the flags here and take a pretty good guess as to which ones are going to be cheaper than others if you're not in any of these countries you can totally still use storytelling completely hassle free you just need a VPN so don't forget the link in the description for a discount with surfshark which is the VPN that I personally use I can attest to the fact that it works with storytelling seamlessly use code Lamont for an extra three months for free leave me a comment if you found this video useful and until next time Lo quiero

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Length: 13min 53sec (833 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 11 2023