To celebrate Book Day or Sant Jordi you can follow the tradition and give a book to the person you want. But you can also gift a subscription with thousands of books or audiobooks that can be read on your tablet, Kindle or any other ereader. Although you lose the romance of the paper book, you can have thousands of titles for less than 10 euros a month.
If you want to give away books, you can give away as many as that person wants instead of betting exclusively on choosing one. Subscriptions to read without limit in exchange for a monthly payment or subscriptions to listen to audiobooks from any mobile or tablet. They all have thousands of titles and unlimited access to read non-stop as much as we want.
There are some free online lending services, such as eBiblio run by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. But there are also other Netflix books: you pay an amount per month and read everything you want. Or you listen to all the audiobooks you want and need.
prime reading
One of the best subscriptions you can bet on on World Book Day is for Prime Reading. It is not as such a subscription for books but part of the benefits that Amazon includes when we contract Amazon Prime. It has a price of 49.90 euros per year or 4.99 euros per month but it not only includes Prime Reading but the rest of the usual benefits: free shipping, exclusive offers, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, unlimited storage on Amazon Photos…
Prime Reading is a lending service with hundreds of books available. We can choose from ten to ten. We can choose the ebooks we read and keep ten. When we finish, we return them and “take out” another ten different ones. There are no limits and you can read as many as you want from everyone in the Amazon library.
The catalog has approximately 600 titles and we find books on any subject. Known best-sellers, new authors starting their literary career, etc. The titles are changing and the catalog is rotating so you will never get bored. Another advantage is that it is not only available for Kindle but also in applications for mobile phones or tablets or even to read from the computer, with applications for PC and Mac.
Kindle Unlimited
Kindle Unlimited is the premium version for eBooks on Amazon. It has a much broader catalog than Prime Reading but it works in a similar way: with a monthly payment that gives us unlimited access to the entire library. The difference is that we pay for it independently and not with other Prime benefits. It has more than a million titles available and we can read as many as we want without limits. Books, magazines, audiobooks, comics…
Kindle Unlimited is priced at 9.99 euros per month with a 30-day free trial and no permanence. If you buy a Kindle device you receive three months of free subscription to test it and see if you are going to take advantage of the service. You can use it on the Amazon Kindle but it also has applications for any device. You can read on Windows, Mac, Android tablets and phones, or iOS. Or from any browser on the Internet.
The main difference with Prime Reading is that there are many more books in the catalog. Millions of ebooks available that you can download and read paying only 10 euros per month, which is what you would normally pay to buy or download a single title.
Nextory
Nextory is a subscription service for books, audiobooks and magazines from Movistar. It is priced at 9.99 euros per month with a free 30-day trial and no permanence. You can cancel at any time. There are two types of plans: Gold or Family. The Gold Plan allows four profiles to listen and read as much as you want but there can only be one profile in use. The Family profile costs between 12.99 and 18.99 euros per month and allows four profiles and between two and four simultaneous readings so that the whole family can read at the same time.
It can be used with any e-reader with the application. The app is available for Android 5.0 and later, iOS 12.1 and later, and iPad 12.1 and later. It is not compatible with Kobo or Kindle book readers, the most popular on the market.
There are all kinds of books. Specialized titles on topics such as psychology or sport. But also fiction novels, thrillers, romantic novels or classics. There is also content for children and adolescents and books for all ages and all tastes. If you have any doubts, you can read some of the most recommended ones from their website and consult the complete catalogue.
Audible
Audible is an Amazon service that allows us to access tens of thousands of original audiobooks and podcasts. It is priced at 9.99 euros per month but with a 30-day free trial that we can use to check if we like it or if we are going to use the service. It does not have permanence or we can cancel it whenever we want if we are not going to use it anymore.
It is available in Spain since 2021 and the catalog increases and is renewed practically every day, with news and exclusive content. There are audiobooks but also original podcasts and more than 900,000 options from which we can choose to listen in the official app. We can find different categories or genres or use the search engine. In addition, there are titles narrated by dubbing experts that will make us enjoy the experience.
It is compatible with tablets, mobile phones or smart speakers at home by downloading the official application. And if you are an Audible subscriber you can listen to them online or download them to take them wherever you want. You can adjust the playback speed, add bookmarks to parts that interest you and want to save or even download attachments as graphics.
It also allows you to activate a sleep timer if you are one of those who wants to listen to them before going to sleep but prevent them from playing all night when you have fallen asleep. And it has a gamification system that will tell you how much you listen or will give you medals as we complete audiobooks and podcasts on the service.
It is an original and different gift option for all ages if you want to succeed on Book Day and want to give away the option of having thousands and thousands of audiobooks available.
storytel
Storytel is another essential when listening to audiobooks. Unlimited audiobooks from 8.99 euros per month without permanence. You can cancel whenever you want and there is a 14-day trial of free use. There is a Family Plan with two accounts for 15.99 euros per month. And a Family Plus Plan for 20.99 euros per month with three available accounts. All three include unlimited books, kids mode, and offline books.
It is available in more than 25 countries and there is content in different languages. It has more than 500,000 titles available and there are ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts or original series. We can filter by category or see the greatest hits of the moment or of each day, the novelties or the most anticipated. You can see what is trending using the search engine for something specific.
Storytel is one of those that allows us to make a gift card for Book Day. You can fill it out directly from the web to send it to family or friends. Access with your account or create one with an email. When you are inside, you choose between the options. One month, three months, six or twelve. You select a payment method and you can receive the card by email. Once you have it, you send it or print it and give it to that person.
