Audio Book Rental Services Provide A Variety Of Options To The Book Lover

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Whether you have a long commute to deal with every day, a road trip coming up, a period of time when you know you will be waiting in line or wedged into an airplane seat, having an entertaining and engrossing audio book can really help to make the time go faster and more enjoyably. In today's digital age, there are a number of online audio book rental services that can give you access to an enormous selection of audio books on CD, tape, or in digital formats, such as WMAs or MP3s.

There are quite a variety of rental services to be found online. Some of these rental services charge a fee each month, while others have an annual fee that you must pay in order to become a member and have access to their audio books on CD or their audio book downloads, depending on your preference.

The audio book rental companies that offer their books on tape or CD work like the popular video rental company, Netflix. You select the audio books on CD or tape that you want to rent from their extensive listings. You can then prioritize the list of titles you have selected.

Next, the rental service will send the titles that are highest on your priority list if they are available at that time. If you choose a new audio book release that is very popular, then you might not receive it right away even if it is in the first position of chosen audio books on your list. For your first shipment, you will receive the audio books that are highest on your list if they are in stock at the time you set up your account.

When you receive your audio book titles from the rental service, you will also have a postage paid return envelop for each of the audio books so that you can send them back individually, as you are finished with each one. As soon as you send one back, another one will be sent out to you from the audio books on your list. In this way, you will always have at least one audio book on hand to listen to while others are being returned, processed, and while new audio book selections are being sent out to you.

Most of these companies have different subscription levels that you can choose from that will allow you to have anywhere from one audio book to four audio books rented at any one time. The fewer audio books you have at a time, the lower your monthly or yearly fee will be. While the cheapest way to go is to only have one audio book rental at a time, most people prefer to have a subscription that allows them to have at least two audio books available to them. This allows them to have one book rental that they can listen to while the other one is being returned.

For those who are on the road traveling often, who have extended commute times, or more than one family member who will listen to the audio books, then it is better to choose the higher subscription plans that let you have four or more audio book rental titles out at one time. Some of these services will let you change the plan for a month or two so that if you are headed out on vacation you can get additional titles to keep you entertained. Once you are back in town, you can then switch to a lesser plan.