hibooks - amazing audiobooks Software

I jumped at the chance to be able to have a service where I could get multiple, newer audiobooks in the month for a little fee. I did not realize that many of those audiobooks are free books available on multiple platforms. I also did not realize that there are levels of access. Of course after I subscribed to the $9.99 per month, the book I wanted to listen to was a “premium” title. The reason why Netflix is successful is because they curate their titles and rotate each month to give people access to even more (new/newish) titles throughout the year. I don’t know if that is the plan with this service, but it is more expensive with less quality titles choose from than I realized when I first signed up. Wishful thinking on my part, unfortunately the value and catalog is not really here.

I heard about this site and while I love my Audible account and utilize Libby too, I was wanting to get more selections in my month. This app is worth the money and has current NYT Bestsellers available right now to listen to. While I love it and have downloaded a lot; the search categories are clunky and need major updating. When I select my genre (example is "Literature/Fiction"), it takes me to the first of many pages of mixed types of this genre. Books such as, "Big Little Lies, Mr. Mercedes, and War & Peace". There is no sorting to help find authors or specific types of fiction. Instead, you must search through the many pages of what seem like random books to find what you are looking for. It is very frustrating. If you are like me and find a book in the middle of this search you will get kicked back to the start. Ughhh! While overall this app has awesome books and is much more user accessible than audible. I will likely use it only until my downloaded books are finished since searching for books is far to frustrating for me!

I have been with Audible for six years and loved them. However when I read that this was $5 cheaper a month and it was all the books I wanted to listen to in a month I took a chance. I’ve been with this app for five months now and this is the first month where the books I’m wanting to read cost more money. Actually what they cost is coins that I have to buy open the book to be able to read it. I got on this morning to write this review with complete intentions of putting “bait and switch” as my title for my review and someone had already beaten me to it so obviously I’m not the only one feeling this way. I have thoroughly enjoyed the books that I’ve read but high books doesn’t have near the selection that Audible has. I will be switching back to Audible and canceling my subscription at the end of this month. The three books I wanted to read cost extra money and of course they did it at the first of the month when my month subscription has just begun. Grrr!