7 reasons why subscribing to Storytel audiobook service is a great New Year's gift

1. There is a huge library in the application

V Storytel you will find over 170 thousand audiobooks, audio series, lectures, podcasts and stand-ups. You can get acquainted with literary novelties and bestsellers in order to always be able to keep up the conversation about fashionable books. Or you can start with the basics and listen to the works of the classics. Here are just a few of the top books and audio series that Storytel has:

• A series of novels "Dune" by Frank Herbert (read by Sergei Chonishvili).
• The autobiography of Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland “D. V. " (read by Alena Doletskaya).
• Audio series "Post" by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
• The documentary audio series "The Subjunctive Mood" by Sergei Minaev.

The library is constantly updated with something new. Among the December novelties - "The Rules of the House of Cider" by master of psychological prose John Irving, family saga "Seven Sisters" by Lucinda Riley, "The Last Witnesses" of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. A selection of new products is formed every week. There is a convenient search: you can search for a specific work, books by tags, authors and readers, as well as by the most popular queries of other users.

2. After subscribing, you will have unlimited access to content

Storytel works on a subscription model. A standard subscription costs 549 rubles per month - like one paper book. At the same time, you will get unlimited access to all content and will be able to listen to as many books as you like per month.

And if you buy a gift card from December 20 to January 1, then a subscription to Storytel will cost half the price: an annual discount card costs RUB 3,294, and a six-month card - RUB 1,647. The card will allow you to activate the "Standard" subscription within two years from the date of purchase.

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3. You can listen to books anywhere

If you find it difficult to find time to read, audiobooks are a great alternative. You can listen to them on the road, in line, while exercising, or while walking the dog. There is an offline mode: books can be saved in the phone's memory and listened to where there is no Internet. And if you like to turn on audio before bed, set a sleep timer in the player. Thanks to him, you can easily find the place where the listening stopped.

You can slow down or speed up the playback speed of the book. There is also a bookmark function. This is convenient if you are using the application on multiple devices: playback will start from the point where you left off.

4. You will have the opportunity to improve your English

If you want to improve your English or just like to listen to books in the original language, you will find in Storytel a large library in English. You can search for specific artworks or choose from numerous collections such as Christmas stories, psychological thrillers, teenage literature, motivational non-fiction, foreign language podcasts. For beginners, there are all the Harry Potter books that were read by Stephen Fry, whose English the whole world considers exemplary.

5. Books are read by famous writers and presenters

Storytel makes cool content projects. For example, the audiobook “House in which ...” by Mariam Petrosyan, read by Tutta Larsen, was published for the first time on the site. Own audio series appear: "Just Masa" by Boris Akunin, "Post" by Dmitry Glukhovsky, "Shadows of the Teutons" by Alexei Ivanov.

The service attracts well-known writers, presenters, bloggers to dub. For example, books for Storytel are regularly voiced by Alena Doletskaya. So, "City of Women" by Elizabeth Gilbert, read by Alena, has been in the top auditions for about two years. Her last work for Storytel is Toon Tellegen's philosophical tale "Not everyone can fall." Some books are voiced by their authors. For example, Dmitry Glukhovsky himself read both parts of the Post.

6. The account can be shared with your child

You can share your Storytel subscription with your child. At the same time, only books for listeners under 12 years old will be available on his device, and everything on yours. When activating the child mode, you need to come up with a PIN code, without which it is impossible to disable the function. The appendix contains audioliterature for children from three years old. You can listen to fairy tales, novelties and popular works in English - for example, stories about The Adventures of Paddington Bear Michael Boyd; or Children's Books by Neil Gaiman, voiced by themselves.

7. Cool selections constantly appear here.

You will no longer have the question of what to read: on Storytel there is an automatic recommendation system that selects content taking into account the interests of the user. There are author's collections, for example, Yuri Dudya, Nikolai Solodnikov, Alena Doletskaya, Galina Yuzefovich. The chief editor of the service, a well-known translator and blogger Anastasia Zavozova, also compiles collections for users every day. You can also read blog Storytel. It regularly contains collections of cool books.

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