If you have a good equipped local library, you may get lucky and get the books you want and don’t have to pay a dime. Last year I had a good run for a while when I managed to get caught up with al lot of books on my wish list. Sone where even digital, which I could read on my OverDrive app. But there is one big disadvantage: You you cannot keep them.

Keeping is a big point for me. Because keeping means I get to mark the best pages and can highlight my favorite quotes, which allows me to revisit those whenever I want to. This works in digital and printed books. However, obviously not in audiobooks. I know depending on the format there are also ways to set bookmarks, but that is not the same.

Audiobooks are great, because you can listen to them almost everywhere. You get to “read” more books this way and especially novels are really fun when a good voice artists is reading them. However, all of the best non-fiction books I have listened to as audiobooks, I also bought as printed books or ebooks. So I could grab them and look up information at any time I want to.

Here are four great sources, I discovered and want to share with you: (more…)