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See my other comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/7069535

You're making disingenuous assumptions when you say I listened to other audiobooks. I have only listened to this series. purchased 3, and listened to 2 of the free (premium) books. I did not listen to any other books. There were a couple times it skipped a chapter with an accidental scroll, and I had to scroll back, but I didn't actually listen so it shouldn't count.

I wasn't aware of the 15 hour limit but of course I am now as it's been pointed out many times in this thread. I didn't even know they had audiobooks until they started showing up on the opening screen of Spotify. I got hooked listening to the Steven Fry narrated OG book and then went to buy the next 3 and the last book in the series was also included in premium so I listened without buying. Still, 13 hours (which makes up for any skipping) is not 15 hours, so there's either a bug or they intentionally count unlistened to skipped chapters as being listened to.

I'm getting Libby setup today with my library card.

See: https://lemmy.world/comment/7069535

I purchased 3/5 books of the series. The 2 free books add up to 13 hours.

Let's be gracious and round up. That's 13 hours. Not 15.

You can only do so many chargebacks before you're banned from using that payment network, which considering it's Spotify they likely use one of the largest payment networks. I save chargebacks for when I got royally fscked, not just irritated inconvenience.

I don't have time to sit down and read books. I have the disease of modernity. Will you read to me when I call?

There were two events, one at 8pm I believe (the anomalous event that maybe ~100 people saw and there's no video of) and then the flares at 9:45pm or 10pm which have videos. The journalists that tried to get info and clarify were stonewalled every step of the way, and Fife Symingron (the mayor at the time that held the press conference and brought the guy out in the alien suit) admitted to seeing them, although I think he's probably FoS.

It's easy to brush everything off if you go into it planning to do so, but if you keep digging a bit more after the seemingly obvious, you'll see that sometimes there's more than the obvious.

I already use ReadEra for all my documents needs. Does it save progress well with audiobooks?

Does it let you have a folder of books and keep your place when you pause the book or exit the app? Many don't seem to keep the progress very well.

High gymnast? It's ok my ex-wife is a tard and she's a pilot now.

Ow My Balls! plays in background

The Steven Fry narration really drew me in. He's fantastic. I was bummed when I started listening to the others but quickly got used to it. Martin Freeman is a good narrator, if not as animated and loud as Fry.

Exactly. I pay for Spotify premium, I purchased 3/5 books in this series, and maybe it's because 2 of the books were free with premium (incl this last book) that it's time limiting me. But if that's the case it's also counting time listened during my paid-for eBooks. Absolutely crazy to me.

The OG HHGTTG is, the prequel and subsequent books in the series are not unfortunately. But I got used to the other guys voice quickly.

You reminded me I do have major regional library card access, if they don't expire after a couple years.

Nicotine is a potent stimulant. If you don't smoke all the time and get tarred lungs then I could see why that would be very bit official. like running a marathon on Adderall to a lesser degree

I wonder if this isn't a different cause and effect scenario. If everyone in the company knew about the deer horns and believed them to work, they likely wouldn't be taking the precautions they normally did.

Of course they don't work, but I'm wondering if the placebo effect is what caused the accident rate to go up. Or an increase in deer populations that year, or land development, or etc.

But yes, they don't work.

But then we wouldn't have the triple breasted whores of Eroticon Six!

Learned helplessness, possibly.

I was like that until a DMT flash which I don't even remember, about a decade ago. I was shown unconditional love for the first time and it completely changed my life. I was in therapy for about 5 years before this, and it wasn't until this experience that I started understanding and putting those lessons learned from therapy into practice.

Oh I didn't notice you were the commenter before them.

nertigren you say?