Audible
Audiobook service sold as monthly credits or a subscription library
Audiobooks on a phone, bought with monthly credits or streamed from a subscription library. It suits people who get their reading done while driving, training or walking, and a good narrator carries a book that would otherwise sit unopened. Heavy listeners live on the playback speed control. Titles are licensed rather than owned outright, which matters if you like to keep a library.
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- Michael PhelpsDoes it
Olympic swimmer · Most decorated Olympian in history
Books reach him through his ears. He told Tim Ferriss he tends to do Audibles, and that he listens for small pieces he can map onto his own career, naming Ego Is the Enemy as one he goes back to.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #494: Michael Phelps and Grant Hackett, transcript
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