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1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars) Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.
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-----------January 26, 2007Audiobooks Anyone?I've posted enough Southern Gospel related articles lately, so I'm due for an off-topic post. Do any of you listen to audiobooks regularly? Do you buy the retail version at a store, buy online, rent online, or download online? I prefer to download. I've been shopping around. I tried Audible.com for a couple of months, but their download files aren't compatible with my iRiver. I had to burn CDs, which took longer than normal due to Audible's silly proprietary format. Then I had to rip each CD to MP3 files, which also took longer than normal for no reason I can decipher. Only then could I get Audible books on my iRiver...pretty ridiculous, when my iRiver plays WMA files just fine. I was paying them $14.95 per month, which included 2 downloads the first month and 1 download each month thereafter, including unabridged titles. I got John Grisham's The Innocent Man and Fannie Flagg's Can't Wait To Get To Heaven in December initially. A few days ago, I got Michael Crichton's Next. It took me something like four hours after doing the initial download to get just one book moved to my iRiver. I decided that was ridiculous, and canceled my service. Just now, I was checking out iTunes, but their prices are insanely high. You can buy the regular retail CDs from Amazon.com for the unabridged version of Crichton's Next for $32.95. iTunes wants $31.95 for the download. You save a lousy buck, and then you have to burn the CDs yourself. Also as with Audible, I'd still probably have to burn and rip CDs before I could ever move the book to my iRiver, since iTunes won't directly move files to an iRiver. Now I've done some Googling and run across www.simplyaudiobooks.com. Are there any readers out there using this company? It looks great on the surface, but at first glance, the selection doesn't look so hot. The price is much cheaper than Audible. It's $11.95 per month for one download per month. They only offer the abridged version of Next as a download. The files are in WMA format, which means I should be able to move them to my iRiver immediately after downloading them (in theory). They also sell physical copies. It's higher than Amazon.com for the regular CDs of Crichton's unabridged Next at $44.96, but they also offer it in glorious, compact MP3 format burned to CDs for just $26.96. You can also sign up to rent books, including the unabridged Next, for $14.95 per month. Rentals appear to operate like NetFlix. They send you an item with no shipping charge...you keep it as long as you need to keep it...you send it back in a postage paid envelope...then they send you the next item on your rental list. My first preference is to download and listen one time. A subscription service is great as long as the credits roll over for two or three months when I don't use them. I need WMA or MP3 format. This service appears to offer all that, BUT it looks like I'd be stuck with abridged books rather than unabridged. Any recommendations? Labels: Audiobooks, Shopping Tales 
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