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Unlike many of Amazon's other offerings, this isn't an add-on service that is contingent on your having a Prime membership. In order to use Audible, you'll have to be an Amazon member, but not necessarily an Amazon Prime member. Here's how to get Audible and use it on your devices. In short, regardless of what content you like to read or hear, you can probably find it on this Amazon-owned service. Or, there's the extremely popular "Heads Will Roll," featuring Kate McKinnon and Emily Lynne, which listeners have called "TV for your ears" and "unbelievably funny." For the political junkies in the room, there's "Conversations with Joe," which offers the highlights from Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden's tour across the US, in which he spoke of his son's Beau's life and battle with brain cancer. There are also some pretty solid Audible originals. Similarly, while I have yet to score tickets to "Hamilton," I like to think that listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo narrate "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz comes as a close second. While I've always purported to prefer reading to listening, I'll admit that listening to Meryl Streep read Nora Ephron titles is something that I cannot do in my own head. Audible, the company behind the largest selection of audiobooks and original audio shows (nearly 500,000, to be exact), is here to save you from cliffhangers.


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