Product recommendations- Spotify Premium

If I could only have one paid subscription?

I’ve been meaning to write this blog post in a while now, ever since Spotify introduced Audiobooks ‘included in premium’. Which has completely flipped how I consume audiobooks! Yes, really!

So, previously if you were getting your audiobook fix  from Audible, the strategy was to find a book which was as long as possible, because with 1 credit you want to get your money’s worth! Right?

But now with audiobooks included in your Spotify Premium, instead of limiting you to only 1 included book in a month, Spotify limits you to the amount of hours per month. You may be asking, how many hours then? The answer would be 15 hours, around the duration of one and a half  average books? So, now my strategy is to look for books around the 8 hour mark, so potentially I could listen to almost 2 books a month (with bits lingering into adjacent months). Although, with a time limit, it’s an absolute fail when I fall asleep, and need to re-listen to passages. Ah!

And this has now opened up a whole new world for me! The world of the short book (less than 5 hours). Previously with Audible you wouldn’t touch a sub-5 hour book, like who in their right mind would waste an entire credit on a book which might only last you a week or so? But now with Spotify, I’m purposefully hunting around for the short book.

And now with a time cap, I’m more likely to explore new titles! Books which I’ve never heard of before, try out some less frequented genres, or shock horror- try books written by Australian authors! All because it’s now easy to start a book, and if you don’t like it, just remove it from your library- as easy as that, no harm no foul!

So, in my opinion, as a blind consumer of content, I think Spotify Premium can be your one and only paid subscription! The service enables you access to all the music you could ever ask for; a single location for all your podcasts; there’s a bit of a community feel if you’re into creating and sharing your playlists; your favourite artists can communicate directly with you; and now that you’re able to access hundreds and thousands of audiobooks!? Spotify does it all!

And don’t get me started on Spotify’s AI DJ! I love DJ! Even if it’s just hanging out for Xavier (X) Jernigan’s voice drops and finding out what interesting facts have they deduced from my listening habits. It’s all pretty amusing.

So, if you haven’t paid for Spotify before? I’d strongly recommend it, let’s just say, your ears will thank you for it.