I used to be an audible user but now I'm a
Playster user user and this is why
with audible I would have to pay $14.95 every
month for just one book and that's it the
good news is I got to keep the book the bad
news is I listen to way more than one book
per month so I would end up spending a lot
of money on either buying another book or
hunting for it somewhere else then I came
across Playster.
Playster gives you lots of opportunities to
subscribe for other things for a monthly fee
you could subscribe for unlimited movies music
books audio books and games and the prices
are really low but here's the thing about
Playster, they don’t have every music or
every movie or book they have a lot but don't
have them all but okay I mean look at those
prices that's that looks amazing right it's
got to be cool so I signed up for their free
trial of the audio books which is $14.95 per
month and immediately went in and started
looking for some of the books that I absolutely
love and of course clicking on one I would
get the whole BOOM you got to pay premium
You got to pay like $29 or something to be
able to access all the audio books that play
store has to offer $29 per month that's still
pretty good I mean for unlimited books at
least three or four books per month and that's
a lot cheaper than audible already.
I'll give it a try so I signed up for the
premium and quickly found that there were
a lot of amazing books that were totally on
my list and things that I couldn't wait to
listen to so I started clicking and saving
them and adding them to my playlist and that's
a pretty good selection so for me I think
that Playster is a lot better option even
though you got to pay the premium to get some
legitimate books what's a better situation
for me than just having to stick with one
book per month but another big thing about
whether or not this is going to work is how
can I use the audio book files when I'm on
the go let's face it I listen to my audiobooks
when I'm in the car when I'm waiting in the
line or just when I've got some time to relax
so I downloaded the Playster app on my phone
and let's go ahead and see how that rolls
jumping onto my phone I'm going to go ahead
and open up the Playster app.
Bringing that up it gives me the option to
be able to shop for books so I don't have
to do it online but I personally prefer to
do it online just bigger screen and it’s
a lot easier to do and for some reason I have
better thoughts when I'm online now the cool
thing is is that when I'm online or on the
app if I select the book I can add it to a
playlist or I can save it and I can even select
them to be downloaded so if I go up to the
top corner here I can either choose the downloaded
books or go to my audio books here's a list
of all the audio books that I've had as you
can see I'm a giant scifi fantasy nerd and
there are some really good books uh I love
Ernest Cline and his Ready Player One book
so of course I got his latest one Armada Neil
Gaiman Norse Mythology actually I’m not
gonna lie I’ve already read it and it’s
awesome and uh I’m ready the latest Orson
Scott Card Swarm book so I mean we're seriously
looking at a lot of great legit best sellers
that are offered Unlimited on Playster so
that's pretty cool now the thing is I don't
want to rack up my data points so I will download
it while I'm at home and currently as you
can tell if I go to my downloads my latest
book that I'm listening to is the Swarm by
Orson Scott Card the second formic War series
for all those scifi nerds is out there like
myself uh as you can see it really easy to
just get it started uh I can click on the
book I can listen to it um and of course it’s
immediately saying your connected to the web
do you want to do it here or do you want to
listen to it here uh I am going to listen
to it here on my phone instead of on my computer
which is right there not gonna lie I had it
set up for preparations when doing these videos
and uh it’s got a unique layout one of the
things I really do love about it is that I
can change the dictation speed now in audible
you can only select like 1.25, 1.5 and 2x
this one I can adjust by small decimal points
um for me I have actually found that 1.7 is
the perfect speed to listen to it and I can
even set a timer but one of the things I have
an issue with this app is that everytime I
open it up so like say tomorrow when I go
to listen to it I have to reset the diction
speed up to 1.7 uh that’s kind of a pain
in the butt but at least I have the ability
to read a little bit faster than audible allows
me to so there you have it this is the Playster
app in review as well as Playster there's
a big reason as to why I switch from Audible
to Playster that's because I listen to more
than two books a month but the question is
if you only listen to one book a month then
maybe audible is the best one for you but
for me I'm going to crush out my giant list
of books that I haven't read yet I'm going
to do a real quick enjoy the subscription
and when I'm done I'll just close it and maybe
go back to that 10% I can't find on Playster
so with that I'm a happy Playster customer
switching from Audible to Playster, cheers
