Audiobooks discussion

I have 70 on my Audible wish list (most are books I'm monitoring to see if they go on sale), and 100 (68 audio + 32 Kindle) on my Overdrive wish list.

I'm only just starting with Audible (relatively new member) so I "only" have 11 books on my wishlist. But that one's bound to grow massively.

Audible 72, yesterday minus 3, because of the buy 3 this month.
And on my GR Bookshelf two more: they are not available as audiobooks to me, I suspect because of dreaded region apartheid policy of maybe they are only on Audible.com and not on Audible uk at all.

I have 72 but just cleaned it up yesterday and eliminated 15 that I'll likely never get to as I go through a prioritization once my count gets above 80. The buy 4 get $10 sales (still hoping for one in November) keep me satisfied with those I'm most interested in listening to and slowly others sink to lower priority and eventually off my list as newer and newer titles of interest fill the top slots.

Grumpus wrote: "Mod
I have 72 but just cleaned it up yesterday and eliminated 15 that I'll likely never get to as I go through a prioritization once my count gets above 80."

I would love it if Audible made the wish list able to manually order, prioritize, and search. I believe I'm not the first that has expressed this desire. :)

I apparently have 165 books on my audible wishlist. I'd go in and tidy it up if it wasn't so difficult to navigate the wishlist.

Kristie wrote: "I have 70 on my Audible wish list (most are books I'm monitoring to see if they go on sale), and 100 (68 audio + 32 Kindle) on my Overdrive wish list."

Only 80 on my Audible Wish List, 100+ Kindle WishList books that I probably will buy (track prices with eReaderIQ), and @.@ way, way too many on my OverDrive Wish List - now there's a list I really wish we could sort.

I have about 120 on my WL mainly in case they go on sale--sometimes emails go out noting specific books on the WL that are in a sale. Others are the next up in a series I've begun and and am gradually going through.

It's a pity the WL isn't actually more flexible and easy to use. I especially hate the weird aspect that returns you to page 1 any time you move or remove an item from any page. It makes it so hard to go through a WL that is longer than a couple of pages.

51 on Audible and 34 on my Amazon wishlist. Some are overlaps but the lists are separated because some I really want to listen to and others I want to read. I agree that the wishlists need a search/sorting function.

I have 126 on my Audible wish list and a little over 700 books between my three Kindle wish lists.

I have 35 with Audible, on GR many more (182 at present) are listed as "want to read" just as a way to keep track of books that look interesting. I also have a category called "Owned" of books I already have and say I am going to read someday and that is at 449 (drat those library sales!)

I used to use the GR "Want to Read" status as a kind of wish list, but I have now transitioned to having my wish lists at the book's source instead (Overdrive, Audible, or Amazon). I now only indicate a book as "Want to Read" on GR if I own it or have it in my possession. It just works better for me that way.

279 - It probably could be stand to be cleaned out.


I use the Audible wish list for books that I have heard about that I think might be good. When I add books to my the Public library queue, I use my Audible wish list.

I am not a fan of Good reads want to read. When deciding on a book, I like the reviews better at Audible/Amazon. I want to see how many hours it is rather than pages and I like to know when the book was published - which I think is easier to find at Audible.

I also plan to win that "WIN YOUR WISHLIST" contest some year and plan accordingly.

Julie wrote: "Jenifer
You would hit the jackpot if you won that !
Does anyone know when they were drawing for that and if it's over , did they list the winners anyplace ? Like just their first name and where the..."

I think you get $300, which wouldn't cover most people's wish lists (though I'd happily take it if I won!). I don't think they've ever announced the winners for that promo that I've ever seen.

Kristie wrote: "I think you get $300, which wouldn't cover most people's wish lists (though I'd happily take it if I won!)...."


Exactly and if that's at 'member prices' it would be about 20 or so books.

As you said, still worth winning & I'd be happy if it was me, but no point putting 200 hundreds on your wishlist and thinking you'll get them all.

I wonder if you get to choose which 20 books, or they just randomly pick books up to that value for you from your list?

I don't think they ever publicize who the winners are, maybe it's available if you inquire. I assume the reason they have it as Win your wish list is so we put more stuff on our wish list and that way, they have more info about what we like or chances to contact us if an item goes on sale. It worked with me. At first, I only kept a few items on the wish list that I planned to get soon, but when there was a contest, I added more. And I do appreciate getting emails that something on my list is on sale.

Okay, so...I'm only second best, or worst depending your point of view. My Audible wish list has 256 items in it. By fluke, a nice round binary number.

The most I do to clean my wish list up is go through while I'm looking for something interesting to purchase and eliminate the stuff that I've bought that hasn't been removed. I hate that if you buy a book that's in your wish list because it goes on sale or something, it doesn't get automatically removed. It should. You should be able to do a general search and be able to remove items that are in your wish list with a link on the item's page. You can add things there? Why can't you remove them? It makes no kind of sense. Instead, you have dig through a static list that you can't sort or search. I agree that the functionality there is so lame it's sad.

To build my wish list, I tend to go through 'best of' lists that are genre specific and add books willie-nillie that sound good. It works out sometimes to get me those sale emails from Audible because 'something on my wish list is on sale.' More often than not the sorts of sources I choose to sample tend to defeat that goal. I pick obscure things, like the last list I added things from was NPR's choices for the best books by women writers. I never delete unless I buy the book because between quirky lists and recommendations here and by friends, I often don't remember why the book was added. All I really need to know is that at one point it appealed. I wanted to read it. And eventually, I get around it.

Valyssia wrote: "... Instead, you have dig through a static list that you can't sort or search. ..."

You can sort the Wish List, a little - click on the column titles; e.g., click on Author and it will sort by author, which will get you A-Z. Click on it again and it will sort Z-A.

CatBookMom wrote: "You can sort the Wish List, a little - click on the column titles; e.g., click on Author and it..."

Yes, that is true, not very useful, but true. Now if only they provided an option to display more than 20 items on a page. I have 13 pages of entries and the list of pages truncates so I can't just guess that 'M' will be about at the middle and go to it.

73. But I had a clear out last week and got rid of what I thought were unrealistic!