Audiobooks on Spotify: Details, Tips and Recommendations
How to make the most of this new feature, included with Premium
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I was quite pleasantly surprised this week when I saw the vast number of audiobooks apparently available to download and read through my Spotify Premium account. The selection is incredibly impressive, even putting the Audible Plus collection to shame.
Of course, it took only a quick search to find the drawback: you only get 15 hours of listening time per month, and must pay $15 (CAD) to unlock just 10 more hours thereafter. And, all of this is only available to the account holder.
Still, this feature is a pure bonus to your Premium subscription. So how do you make the most of it?
Select your audiobook wisely
With only 15 hours of listening time per month, concise novels will be your friend. I deeply enjoyed listening to Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive on Audible and have highly recommended them in the past, but each of those novels clock in over 45 hours — meaning each would take more than three months to finish with this new feature.
Countless excellent stories are significantly shorter than this and therefore more conducive to the 15 hour monthly limit…
