Did I Finally Solve My Audiobook Woes? Well, Maybe.

Having been blogging for over 20 years, there are some topics I keep going back to somewhat regularly. One of these is audiobooks, something I’ve been hooked up on ever since my hospitalization, and that I still to this day commute, and fall asleep, with. Like many other audiobook aficionados, I have a love-hate relationship with Audible — because if on one side it has a vast catalogue that is fairly accessible for its monthly due, their content is locked down hard, and you need to keep using your account to access it even after you (supposedly) bought it. As it turns out, this is only one of the reasons I hate Audible, and the other one is a bit more… complicated. You see, I started reading Audible audiobooks when I owned an iPod Classic, which meant I bought my first one on the iTunes Store — and that meant they were DRM’d with a whole different method than Audible’s own. It also meant some of those I could more easily “liberate” and are still accessible to me some 14 years later,…