Until a couple weeks ago when IG started incessantly feeding me a featured post about the new Star Wars novel being available. I had put my Audible account on hiatus sometime last year to cut some costs and all the books I want in Libby have a long waitlist currently. So I went into Spotify, found the book, and started listening.

It’s been great! As a result, I was getting pretty excited about it and planning what I’d listen to next. The feature comes with the Premium Individual, Duo, or Family account levels (we have Premium Individual).

But there was a catch I didn’t know about.

Once I hit the 15-hour mark, I received an audio notification telling me that I ran out of hours for the billing cycle. But, but, but I'm a Premium user! So I checked out the subscription tiers and, apparently, no matter what level you're at, you have a 15-hour max.

That sucks! You can purchase what they call a "10-hour top-up" that will carry over from one cycle to the next if you don't use it all, but it's another $12.99 just for those 10 hours. I’d use those in a week, week and a half tops. Given that and my normal monthly subscription rate, I may as well move back to Audible. This really bites. But I won’t. 

Good thing is my next billing cycle is almost here (eight days), but I was hitting a stride in this book and I know I'm just going to run out again within about a week of the next billing cycle starting.

I guess I need to be more judicious about my listening. Or have a better backup.

Way to drop a wall in front of me when I hit that sprint.