The Wonder Weeks - Audiobook

How can there be an audiobook in this day and age that doesn’t let you listen at different speeds?

Listening to this made me think of a high school student trying to stretch a paragraph into a five page paper. Even our 11 year old daughter couldn’t believe how repetitive this was. Look, we own and like the book, and our family was looking for a way to listen to it while we painted our new nursery on a Sunday afternoon. This is like an awful advertisement that you have to pay for to suffer through. We were very disappointed, and I regret purchasing this. Wish I could undo...

I bought this app yesterday and tried to download the first chapter and the app froze with “error”. I re-downloaded it again and it froze again. Today, same story. I have no way to obtain refund or support. Don’t buy! I will update my review based on the progress if they make any.

I love listening to audiobooks or podcasts and this was especially great while nursing! I got the app after my first baby and found it really helpful at a time when I was looking for some guidance and help. Reading books just wasn't in the cards for me in the first months but I was interested in the content! And the additional reading pieces provided on each leap are so helpful and a great bonus. They're something you can go back to and reference without having to listen to a whole chapter again. Here are my hang ups and reasons for three stars (which have everything to do with the app functionality and not the content). I give the content five stars and really appreciate it being accessible this way, but there are some pretty basic improvements that should be made! First, if you pause and your phone locks, the player does not go back to where you left off. So you'll want to take note of where you are when you pause if you're not able to listen to a whole chapter in one go. Second, you download the chapters as needed, but you can't remove them from your phone without uninstalling the app and the re-downloading it. Third, once you finish a chapter, the player automatically starts playing the intro (which I still have downloaded because I don't want to take the time uninstall the app and re-download as mentioned above). I think the audio should just stop after a chapter is finished! Lastly, for whatever reason I am not able to listen to the chapters through my car stereo like I'm able to listen to music. Now that I'm back at work I'd like to listen during my commute, but when I plug the cord in it doesn't work.

The $3 pays for the entire book. You can download the chapters, delete and redownload when you want so you can save space on your phone. Maybe they changed it due to earlier complaints.

I paid for this thinking I paid and it's done. No! You pay $.99 to hear a stupid intro and get the first chapter. You have to pay $.99 FOR EACH CHAPTER after that, totaling another $10!! Do not get. So mad.