Hey folks, I have two exciting things to tell you about. One of them is Libro.fm.

Libro.fm is a URL. They are also a new way to buy audiobooks. This is the first time that a company has partnered with the podcast, and I'm the whole operation making the podcast. I'm doing the editing and the research and everything. So I'm only picking companies I'm legitimately really excited about. And what's most exciting about

them to me is Libro lets you purchase your audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore.

If you listen to audiobooks right now, you probably get them from one very, very large company.

Libro.fm is different because they partner with hundreds of U.S. bookstores, dozens of Canadian bookstores, and a few

more bookstores around the world. And this way you get that same exact audiobook, but the money

goes back to your local bookstore, back to your local community. I've been a Libro customer since

before this podcast launched, and that's because I want to support the regulator, which is an

independent bookstore here in Durham, North Carolina. You probably have your own favorite local

bookstore top of mind right now. You can use Libro.fm to buy audiobooks in a way that helps them. And they are able to offer

you a coupon as like an affiliate deal since you listen to this podcast. The coupon code is

SIFPOD, SIFPOD, just like the URL for the show and all the social medias and stuff.

That code SIFPOD gets you two audiobook credits for the price of one.

Those credits never expire, and those credits can go toward any of more than 150,000 audiobooks

in the Libro.fm catalog. Go to Libro.fm and enter code SIFPOD at checkout to help help this show and also help your local bookstore and get two

audiobooks for the price of one. The other exciting thing is for patrons. I'm really excited to be

affiliating with this company, Libro.fm. There may be other companies that are exciting, too.

I also think if you're somebody donating to this show, if you're somebody

backing it on Patreon and making the entire thing possible, people who are paying to support this

show should not hear sponsors. And we can do that. That's how it's going to work. So there's a whole

new benefit for donors now. Everyone who supports the show gets a sponsorship-free version of the show,

an ad-free version of the show in their feed.

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