Hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here and in today's future. What I want to do with you guys is track to you about audible vs
blink east versus proper reading and reading with the book that that means so you've probably landed on this video if
You are looking at one of these options as your next way to learn and build your own
knowledge and content as you go across a day, and you're probably wondering
Should I go for the 15-minute option of blink kissed or go for the longer version of?
reading and give you an idea of which one to go with which one might be most suitable for you now before we dive into
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what they are the first is audible now audible is a
Audiobook application which reads the book to you so you can buy books using what's called
Credits and each month you get given a credit
It's about seven dollars ninety nine per month and you get one credit per month
So you basically can redeem this credit get a book that is fully read to you
Books can range between anything from six hours to 20 hours on average and these books are a good way
to essentially save yourself time
Maybe you'll walk to work or you go in the car and you want to be able to use it now on the other hands
blink east is an application that takes a book and nonfiction books and
Convinces them down into 15-minute and how it does
That is it doesn't necessarily like speak to you in five times the speed of it what it does is it picks the key?
takeaways of each book all of them major
Learnings the stuff that will save you time and then condense it down into the book. Now. The pricing is a little bit pricey
It's something in the range of
60 to 70 pound or dollars per year
I'll include the pricing below so
You know guys know the latest updated pricing and the application obviously has a big library
But again, it doesn't have necessarily
The full book. So obviously you're going to be losing out there and the final is something you all guys know
It's reading it's taking a physical book out with you reading it and obviously, you know taking all the lovely information now
Of course when it comes to nonfiction reads
This is typically the category you need to be able to work out which one's best to use
So let's start with the pros of each of these. So let's start with audible
Now the first pro is that it's at a fairly affordable price seven dollars
ninety nine per month is not bad for one book and on average you'll read one book and the good thing is
Once you're a member on audible
You can return a book if you don't like it or anything like that
And the good thing is it it actually allows you to read the full book like sometimes you have the author
sometimes you don't but at least you get to listen to the full book and through the
application you get to advance a speed as well from anything from
1x or even 1/2 X all the way to two and a half X which will increase the time that you finish the book other
Things that are good about audible are that it is portable
It's easy and you can download the entire book and you can even begin to build a library of books as well
So for Blinky's there are lots of pros to blankest
it's perfect for those who are time poor those who don't necessarily want to churn through a six to eight to nine hour book and
Listen to all of it and actually just want all of the good gems from it
the second thing is obviously that it's really
Reliable and the good thing is from when you get the nonfiction read in there
They pick out the best bits and it's actually really well crafted. That's something I did know when I was using it
so the good thing as well is if you don't want to listen to those 15 minutes of like the audio version you can actually
Read the 15 minute diction in an article format, too
Which is something that other applications like audible don't offer now, obviously
final element is
reading and there are so many pros to reading the things that I think stand out above the others are definitely that you get a
Sense of you know physically seeing the book in front of you and actually engaging with it. It's a good offline activity
So you're not disrupting distracting yourself, like checking your phone during the audible or audiobook, you know?
you haven't got phone calls coming in on blinkie's you won't have like texts coming through and
Distractions like that and naturally with a book. It is really easy to read
Again books are really portable. This is really obvious stuff
But again, it's a really offline experience that you're gonna get, you know, pretty standard
So let's talk about a few of the cons of these applications
Let's start with audible now audible is a really good service in my opinion. I found it really reliable
But again, you'll tied into a contract. It's seven dollars ninety nine
If you take yourself off that contract you can't return the books. So every time you wanna my book, it's gonna be at least
$7.99 because you have to start a contract over and again each time you do it and credits really don't go lower than that
They do occasional sales, but apart from that you're not gonna get lower than $7.99. Unless you've got some sort of deal
again audible is a
Reliable experience but a lot of the time the books aren't read by the author which sometimes loses the originality of the piece
But again, that's totally up to you and your own reading
Experiences but apart from that the cons are pretty good with audible. So obviously Blinky's has a few cons, too
And the first is definitely the pricing it's not that fordable as an application
You do get what's called a daily free read so you can sign up for free and enjoy one per day
I believe it is but again, some people don't want actually like you're being condensed into 15 minutes
They much prefer the full book to be available or at least more information for people to grasp now
I know they're playing around with more formats of it. So I haven't actually checked that blinkers since I used it
I know that when I used it, I used it when I was walking to work and I was trying to
Information, but I'd say after like nine months
I had read the majority of the books that I wanted to read and I didn't necessarily
Need the service after that and that's just something I noted whereas with audible at least every month
I get like a new book and I can read the entire thing and
That sort of keeps me occupied for a lot of that time reading ponds obviously is that it's in a physical edition
You know you could be bringing around with you
Libraries can stack up and like I've only recently condensed my books down and give them to charity shops
But again books are quite expensive when you buy them anywhere between ten pound and fifteen pound if you're buying a nonfiction book
So again that cost can add up. So guys
you're probably wondering which one do I go with or which one would I recommend and
I'd say the winner out that lot is audible for me
Again, I think it's just a more reliable solution again. I'm quite young. I'm twenty-five
So it's like I'm sort of in that sort of you know
I would say the younger would probably appreciate blink kiss because it's faster, you know gets all the information condensed down for you
whereas I know the older generation would appreciate reading and I'll probably get slammed in the comments like
Stop trying they're negatively include reading but again, I think audibles this experience that reads the book to you
but again finds it valuable and I always say to people whenever I'm reading audible, I would say like
Oh, I read that book last month when ice and then I go actually I listened to that book last month
It makes me feel less lazy, but the concept of audible I think is a good all-rounder for everyone. So guys
I hope you enjoyed this feature, please Gavin over comments which one you use which one you find valuable again
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