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Have any of you found Kindle unlimited worth it for science fiction? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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In the last few months I've read:

  • Project Hail Mary, Weir
  • Fall, Stephenson
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Gaiman
  • The Ultimate Earth, Williamson
  • The first four Discworld books, Pratchett
  • Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, Resnick
  • A Memory Called Empire, Martine
  • A Desolation Called Peace, Martine
  • The first five Murderbot Diaries books, Wells
  • The Imperial Radch trilogy, Leckie
  • Annihilation, Vandermeer
  • The Kingston Cycle trilogy, Polk

For comparison, I think I read two or three books last year. It's starting to be a non-trivial amount of money, even though they've all been the ebook versions, which are generally a little cheaper. Has anyone who reads a lot of SF found Kindle Unlimited to be worth the price?

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK about sci-fi specifically, but I have scribd and use it extremely heavily, mostly for audiobooks, but they usually have both if they have an audiobook.

Discoverability isn't great, and the catalogue is not comprehensive, but it's reasonably large, especially compared to Kindle Unlimited, and I can often listen to complete series (I mostly read mysteries, personally). Sometimes, if you read several books of a series in a month, it makes you wait until the next month to start a new book in that series or by that author, but I read a lot of books and don't hit that that often. I can give a link to a 60 day trial (you can use PayPal and immediately cancel the renewal through the PayPal interface to avoid a charge) if you want it.

I also use Libby and Hoopla through my library. They have different models and different libraries, but there is a lot you can read for free legally.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, thank you, and let me think about your kind offer. I'm likely to do the KU trial first.