[Causality1]

Yep. Fifty hours of Netflix is fifteen dollars a month. Fifty hours of Audible content is close to a hundred bucks. Now, two dollars per hour is cheap compared to traditional entertainment like movie theaters and DVDs but downright insane compared to YouTube and Spotify.

[thisone]

Hmmm, 100 hours of audible content would run me about 3 books. So around £18 when buying bulk credits. Or £24 when buying monthly.

But I was taught to buy books by weight. Which has turned out to be good advice.

[icebraining]

I'm currently listening to The Power Broker (over 65h of narration) and it only cost me one credit (so, about $15).

[max76]

You could get a library card and checkout DVDs, audiobooks and books for free. Podcasts are free. Network television is free. Assuming you are working and middle class the expensive part about consuming fifty hours of entertainment isn't spending $15 or $100. It's spending fifty hours of your attention.

People buying audiobooks aren't suckers, and most of them are spending much less than $2/hr.