Audible app for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows 10 lets you share audiobooks with others. If you have experienced a great listen, and think your friend Lea might like it, why not ask her if she wants the book? You can send an Audible book to her, and she will get a free copy legally. It may make your friend’s day! Yes, what send means is that after you share a purchased audiobook with her, she owns the book as you do. She can listen to it for free, and your audiobook stays in your library, there’s no cost on you.
What is Audible Send This Book?
Send this Book is different from gift this book. Send this Book is 1 plus 1. Your friend will get the same book, and you won’t lose it. Since an Audible book could not yet be described as cheap (read Why are Audible so expensive?), Amazon Audible won’t let you share too much. Actually, it only lets you share a book with the same friend once. For example, after friend A picks up the Audible book a you shared, A can’t receive free share book from others anymore. You can share another Audible book b with friend B, again, only once.
Things to remember:
- You can’t share more than 1 book from your library with the same friend, because each user can only accept 1 Audible book share total.
- You can’t share the same Audible book to 2 different people, even if they have never received a book before.
- As long as you purchase an Audible book, you can share it. You don’t have to finish the read.
- To let your friend actually get the book instead of just receiving a recommendation, your friend will need to download the Audible app and log in with his/her account (or sign up for a free Audible account here), and then your friend can click again the link and get the shared Audible book in the app.
[Send this Book] How to Share Audible Books for Free with Friends
Audible for Android App
- Method 1: Player Screen
- Open the player screen of an Audible book and tab the Share icon.
- Click on Send this Book.
- Choose the way you would like to use to share your Audible book.
- Tab Send.
- Method 2: Audible Library
- Click the three vertical dots next to the Audible book you want to send.
- Choose to Send this Book and tab on the method.
Audible for iOS App (iPhone/iPad)
- Method 1: Player Screen
- Tab the share button
at the screen. - Tab Send this Book, and select how you want to send your Audible book (Mail, Message, Messenger, etc.).
- Method 2: Audible Library
- Tap the three dots next to the Audible book.
- Tab Send this Book, choose the way to send, enter a customized message if necessary, and click on Send.
What is Audible Family Library Sharing?
Family Library Sharing lets you invite someone you live with to share benefits, for instance, your spouse and your children. By creating an Amazon Household Library, your family members reside in the same address can share the Audible books you have purchased and added into the library. There is no problem whether multiple listeners are enjoying the same book or different books at the same time.
Read Amazon official guide here: How Can I Setup and Use Amazon Household Library?
Life Hacks: How to Share Unlimited Audible Books
All Audible books are enforced by DRM (digital rights management) encryption. The way you own an Audible book is you have perpetual access to this DRM-protected audiobook through your account, and from this, it is not difficult to think of ways that you can share unlimited Audible books is let your friend use your account & password to log in, but that’s NOT recommended for sharing books. The more recommended method is to decrypt & convert Audible to regular MP3 files. Then there will be no DRM protection, and all restrictions are lifted.
Audible Converter is a good way to go, which can convert Audible books to high-quality MP3 files, and enables you to split an Audible book by chapters. You need to just take two steps:
Step 1 is to download Audible audiobooks to PC or Mac as AAX/AA format, and Step 2 is to convert the downloaded Audible files to MP3. It is an extremely simple program to operate.
This program runs on Windows and Mac, you can download it from Audible Converter product page or download it from here.
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One other thing to note is: please don’t profit from making Audible copies. This tool can just be used to back up your own Audible archive, or to share Audible books with a close family member that doesn’t live together.
To sum up, we can use Audible Send this Book to share an audiobook with one friend, and share another Audible book with another friend for once. If you have family members living together, Amazon Household allows sharing all the Audible books for free among family members, but there are many regions where Amazon does not provide these features, then you can try some special software.
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