How To Get More Audiobook Hours On Spotify For Free?

I have drilled down into all of the various free Spotify tiers to detail workarounds to the frustratingly low 15 hour monthly limit for free users. I primarily listen to very short audiobooks and reamend my monthly limit in order to hear longer audiobooks. In addition, I look to see if a free portion of an audiobook has been embedded by the author such as a preview or even an interview with the author and does not count against your limit of free listening per month. Sometimes the free hours limit for free users is relaxed in certain regions such as the UK for certain periods of time, such as over a holiday period. In this case I enable a VPN and check to see if there have been any changes.

When working with the publishers on Spotify, they can set up some of their longer-form work to be released as serialized podcasts which don’t count against your free hour limit. So I have been searching for “full audiobook” within the podcast section of Spotify and found Dracula and Pride and Prejudice for example. I’m also a part of the Spotify Beta testing for new features etc. Sometimes they add new features for a short period of time and then take them back with a view to re-releasing them with some tweaks and would love any feedback.

I’m a huge fan of audiobooks and after doing some research on how to get the most free listening on Spotify, I wanted to share some tips with you all. Firstly, it’s well-known that you can get 15 hours of free audiobook listening per month on each free Spotify account you have. So, I’ve set up a few free accounts and I simply swap between them when one runs out. Secondly, every now and then, Spotify runs a limited time offer for free Premium trials that last for a few weeks or a month, during which time you can listen to as many audiobooks as you like (without using up any of your free listening allowance). I try to keep an eye out for these by following Spotify on social media. Another tip is to look into sharing access to a family account or account of a friend/family member. You can listen to as much as you like on their account for as long as they’re happy to share it with you. I also try to see how long I can make my listening time last by listening to podcasts and shorter samples of audiobooks instead of devouring hours of the same thing at a time.

To get more free hours of audiobooks on Spotify I play the game. I get free trials by signing up with different e-mails. In the meantime I cancel them before they charge me. Often there are also student discounts to get Premium for half price and get unlimited audiobooks. On Reddit there are communities where people post promo codes and temporary unlocks for example.

The “Daily Drive” playlist sometimes throws in some audiobook clips in between songs, which don’t use up any of your 15 hours of free streaming. Also, downloading something during a free trial and then listening to it offline won’t use up any of your free hours. You can also look for creative commons audiobooks that have been uploaded as podcasts – there’s usually hours and hours of free material.