What's a good alternative to Audible.com?

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Our local and county libraries have pretty good, to amazing selections of audio offerings. Not sure what's offered up in your neck of the woods, but it might be worth checking out. Only issue here is lack of instant gratification, as popular stuff means sitting on the wait list until it's your turn. Many items are available for immediate check out, so it's just a matter of planning ahead for your listening queue. Whenever possible, I try to snag the electronic visual copy at the same time to read along (when not in the car, obviously), which helps reinforce retention of the important passages. Sometime if the book turns out be something I really want to keep for future reference, I'll end up buying it anyway.
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