How to Rent an Audio Book Online

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By eHow Arts & Entertainment Editor

Whether its a long commute to work, a Saturday afternoon running errands or a road trip with the kids, an engrossing audio book can make the time fly. Nowadays, for a flat monthly or annual fee, you can rent a vast selection of audio books online in tape, CD or digital audio formats such as .wma.

Instructions

Step 1
Rent audio books from companies such as Simply Audio Books or Audio to Go, two audio book rental services that function much the same way Netflix does for movies. You pay a membership fee in exchange for the privilege of renting an unlimited number of audio books. The number of books you can have out at any given time depends on your subscription level. You can pay by the month or by the year.

Step 2
Download audio books from services such as Jiggerbug. Jiggerbug allows you to download to your computer or to an MP3 player. Simply Audio books also offers these services, plus it allows you to burn the audio books you download to CD.

Step 3
"Borrow" audio books from your local library by accessing its online audio book service. Just enter the login information, download some simple software, and "check out" as many audio books as you like. You can't "borrow" (download) an audio book if someone else already has it "checked out." You can add yourself to the wait list, and you'll receive an email once the audio book has been "returned." Some titles can be burned to CD, and some cannot. All can be downloaded to computer or MP3.

Step 4
Find audio books on tape at Audio Queue (which also offers audio books on CD). For a monthly membership fee, you can have as many as four titles out at any one time. As with Simply Audio's or Jiggerbug's rental services, you set up a queue of titles you want to receive, and Audio Queue will mail them directly to your home. When you're done, you mail the title back in the prepaid envelope, and Audio Queue will send out the next title in your queue.


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