Chrysalis Academy Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I'm happy to see this program back for another summer, we downloaded some great free audiobooks last year. They pair a YA title with a classic title each week. This week's pairing is Rebecca and Beautiful Creatures. Anybody read the latter? I suppose I can just listen to it to decide if it's age-appropriate, but I'd love a review . . . http://www.audiobooksync.com/ 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 We downloaded ours first thing this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Thank you!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Any chance we could bump this each week when there are new titles? I tend to forget. This week 5/7 - 5/14 the titles are: Beautiful Creatures Rebecca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Good idea, or if you can't find it just start a new one. I think somebody started a new thread each week all summer last year. It does help you remember! Although you can sign up on the site to get email notification each week, that's how I figured out it had started. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 ! Although you can sign up on the site to get email notification each week, that's how I figured out it had started. Brilliant. Going to do that now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Very cool! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitterpatter Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Do they expire after you download them? ETA: Never mind, I see in the FAQs that the MP3 files are to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Yes, you just have a week to download the current pair of books, once the week is past you can't access them any more to download. So you have to stay on top of it! But once you download them, they are yours to keep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Thank you! bumping for the new week. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Are they typically just YA titles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Just a heads-up - this is not available in Asia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Are they typically just YA titles? Look here to see what titles are featured this summer. I believe it's one YA and one classic each week. Click on the week # here to see what titles are offered each week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I am really enjoying this. Last summer I only downloaded the week#1 and then I forgot. This year I made weekly outlook 'appointments' to remind me. There are several that I always wanted to read. Including Rebecca, so we are off to a good start. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Never mind, I see in the FAQs that the MP3 files are to keep. One thing I hadn't considered. My are downloaded via the Overdrive program. When my hard drive went kaput, I was able to get my files back through a backup - however, the SYNC files that were mine to keep don't show up in Overdrive anymore. They still exist on my new hard drive and there is probably some way of playing them, but the easy click-to-transfer-to-my-MP3-player stuff is gone. I haven't figured out how to get them back into Overdrive. :huh: I'm sure someone more tech-savvy than me (which is just about any kid nowadays) could figure it out. So, don't change computers or let your hard drive die without having a tech-savvy kid in your family. :leaving: ETA: New ones are available for Week 2! Dodger isn't available in the UK, but you can get it in Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Are they typically just YA titles? Yes, the program is marketed towards the YA set. Some of the titles won't make a difference, a few might. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessedMom Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Thank you for sharing and for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Thank you! I had Rebecca on my summer reading list, so I've got a head start with the audio download! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Thank you! I had Rebecca on my summer reading list, so I've got a head start with the audio download! i am at work and wondering what will happen next in the book. I am on track 3 and she is about ready to leave the hotel. I saw the movie eons ago (VCR), so I know what happens, but I still want to know what happens next in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 I'm listening to Rebecca now, too! And also read it long ago, but am enjoying this listen . . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I was telling my husband about this. I am so excited! He doesn't even like audiobooks, although he loves books. He hadn't looked at this list but he mentioned that book lists like this always seem to be aimed at females. Based on what I remembered, I couldn't dispute that for this list. But then I am a woman and Little Women is second on my excited-about list and I may have thought "ehh" to a male book and didn't remember it. I tried to dispute it with Great Expectations, but he thought that was a chick book too. What do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Oh, I don't know - this week is pretty boy-friendly, a novel about Malcolm X and poetry by Walter Dean Myers? the Living and The Perfect Storm? Monster and Lord of the Flies? The Explorers Club and Around the World in 80 Days? Huck Finn? Courage Has No Color? In the Heat of the Night? Under a War-Torn Sky? Seems plenty boy-friendly to me, in fact I noticed that there are quite a few my daughters probably won't be interested in. Tell your dh to look at the list before making pronouncements like that! :) :001_tt2: ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Yeah, now that you point it out, those do seem pretty boy-friendly. I hadn't remembered any of those, I guess because I went "Meh". I will listen to all of them because, free books!, and I like almost everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Week 3 is up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflections Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Thanks for this! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 This week's selections: The RIng and the Crown and Sea Hearts. http://www.audiobooksync.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 My boys enjoy most of the titles. They don't think in terms of girl or boy books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Has anyone else noticed the subject folders these books have gone into? X is the only one in the Juvenile Literature folder. Weird. I'm using my work computer to download these so there is no other books in the overdrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Hm, mine go directly into overdrive and show right up, they don't automatically go into folders. I guess I don't have a juvenile literature folder. I would definitely consider most of these YA, rather than J titles, so maybe that's why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Oh, they are all in Overdrive on mine too. Click on "Group by Subject" and browse what is there. I had just thought that their Subjects were interesting. I haven't gotten to "X" yet so I don't know why it is alone in Juvenile Fiction, while the others except for Great Expectations is in Young Adult Fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitterpatter Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Finally! The book I've been waiting for. http://www.audiobooksync.com/books/little-women/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I just finished the Madeleine book. I liked that it had homeschooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'm pretty proud that I've only missed one week so far (Week 9). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I read (so far) two books I've really enjoyed through this (and found a new "Listen to books on your iphone app) Dodger by Terry Pratchett and Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein Anne Frank Remembered is on the list next And The Explorers Club March looks interesting too. Glad I downloaded last night! Thought I had one more day but was afraid I'd forget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Dodger was a complete but wonderful surprise. I never read any of his before. "To urch" makes me giggle whenever I think of it. I even looked into sending Terry Pratchett a fan message, but he died. Much preferred it over Great Expectations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Dodger was a complete but wonderful surprise. I never read any of his before. "To urch" makes me giggle whenever I think of it. I even looked into sending Terry Pratchett a fan message, but he died. Much preferred it over Great Expectations. I had never read any of his before either. But I had heard so much. YES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'm listening to and enjoying Dodger right now, too. I did really enjoy listening to Great Expectations, the reader did a fantastic job with the voices. But they should have paired Dodger with Oliver Twist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisabees Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Okay- I missed most of the summer's offerings, but... I just started listening to Pratchett's Wee Free Men. I read the book years ago and I am thoroughly enjoying the audiobook. It makes me chuckle. We do have Dodger on a shelf. Glad to hear the audiobook is a good one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitterpatter Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 So, I guess you only have to download the Overdrive file during a specific week? I'm downloading the MP3 files to Huck Finn right now (expired yesterday), as I didn't get a chance to last week. There was a lot I didn't download because it takes so long for me to download the files. Maybe I should have made sure I snatched all of the Overdrive files in hopes of downloading the MP3s later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Yes, you have to get it during that week. I believe you have to get it into Overdrive during the week too. I don't listen to audiobooks over again. Well, except for Dark Tower and an occasional non-fiction. So, I don't buy them, which means whatever I am listening to either has to be eventually returned or ripped for later use or expires. It has been really lovely having lots stuff on my "bookshelf" ready for me, and a reading list to help me not forget one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I started listening to the Explorers Club and it made me giggle a few times with its silliness. Haven't had a chance to finish it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraBeth475 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thank you for sharing this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranquility7 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Oh, thanks for sharing!! I'm sad I didn't see this thread earlier in the summer, but am glad to get the last few at least! And I've added it to my calendar for next year :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Have there been any duds? I thought the seals being turned into human wives was dreadful. I just couldn't get past the fact that no one asked the seals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Yeah, I'm not crazy about all of the YA choices. I skipped the seal wives one. I also bailed on A Color of White - it didn't hold my interest. I loved Dodger, and I'm listening to March right now. It's a wonderful book, but it definitely feels like an adult book to me rather than a YA book. It would be fine for older teens who were studying American History and familiar with Little Women, but it's not for the faint-hearted. It seems to me that a number of the YA selections are really best for older teens, not for younger readers. ETA: Having finished March, I would definitely say it is an adult book. It has a lovely tie-in to Little Women, but I'd hate to see an unsuspecting mom assign it to her young kid who had loved Little Women! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I couldn't find the 2016 audiobooksync thread, although I know that there was one announcing it was coming. What do you guys think of this (2016) year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I want to download Weeks 9's The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I know that I want to use this title for Health/Nutrition later on. Probably also Week 15's Classic American Short Stories. Is there something else that I should not miss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I missed Week 5's Words in the Dust, although it was apparently available longer than it should have been. I used to get emails reminding me to download them every week & haven't been lately. Have to set myself a reminder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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