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Kraps posted:See but look where it says "Epistolary Novels". I've been looking all over for books like that, and asking people for suggestions "in the style of WWZ" returns poo poo results. Try "oral history". You'll probably get 80% non-fiction, but it's how WWZ is introduced by the in-fiction "author". Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Mister Macys posted:Try "oral history". You'll probably get 80% non-fiction, but it's how WWZ is introduced by the in-fiction "author". At the end of Lock-In by Scalzi there's an oral history of the virus in the book. I enjoyed it even more than the book I think.
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Kraps posted:See but look where it says "Epistolary Novels". I've been looking all over for books like that, and asking people for suggestions "in the style of WWZ" returns poo poo results.
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Kraps posted:asking people for suggestions "in the style of WWZ" returns poo poo results.
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Enfys posted:Are there other places to pick up audiobooks besides Audible? I'm really getting into listening to them now and picked up a bunch in the last sale, but I'm not a big fan of subscription services. libro.fm is another choice, they pair up with independent bookstores so if you sign up through one I think they give a bit back to the store for each sale. Their app is pretty decent as a player, though I've had a couple problems downloading specific titles through the app but anything you buy you can straight download as mp3 so it hasn't been too much of an issue
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Syrinxx posted:Overdrive is easy to use, has a solid app/player, and a good selection. (And can help you get cheap Audible books as noted above) I've had issues with Hoopla's app and incomplete audiobooks BUT their library and Overdrives are not the same (at least for Massachusetts public library system) so using both gets you a much larger selection. And most of the time it works perfectly fine.
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Norm's book is good. I mean, if you like to hear Norm ramble. He can be an acquired taste. I'm mainly just pointing it out here because comedy books read by the authors are almost always great. No need to worry about getting the delivery wrong in your head and missing a joke.
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NmareBfly posted:Norm's book is good. I mean, if you like to hear Norm ramble. He can be an acquired taste. Thank you for this, I just slammed the "Buy for 1 credit" button so fast I think I sprained something.
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Necronomicon, the unfortunately-titled collection of 19 HP Lovecraft stories, is on sale right now for $5. It has 19 shorts in it, which is amazing value for the price.
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precision posted:Necronomicon, the unfortunately-titled collection of 19 HP Lovecraft stories, is on sale right now for $5. It has 19 shorts in it, which is amazing value for the price. Where? It's still full price on Audible.
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XBenedict posted:Where? It's still full price on Audible. Regular Price:$45.47 Sale Price:$4.95 or 1 Credit http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Necronomicon-Audiobook/B00MNQKYNC/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srImg?qid=1475187006&sr=1-1 There's another, much shorter Necronomicon on there that isn't on sale. Otherwise maybe it's a region thing?
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On the verge of signing up for Audible. Does anyone know if it's possible to download books in portions? Like, if you get a 15 hour book, does it download the entire file to your device, or can you do it in managable sizes? I don't really want to kill my data driving to work.
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You download the file when you're on a wifi network (which takes a few minutes) and play it from your device. I think the largest file I've seen is like 340 MB, so as long as you delete books you're finished with, it's not going to take up that much space.
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EdsTeioh posted:On the verge of signing up for Audible. Does anyone know if it's possible to download books in portions? Like, if you get a 15 hour book, does it download the entire file to your device, or can you do it in managable sizes? I don't really want to kill my data driving to work. You can download in portions (typically 1-4) manually from your library on the website (and stick them in iTunes, for a 2gb Shuffle, say), but the app grabs the whole thing at once. You can choose audio quality though, which reduces the size. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Oct 5, 2016 |
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Oct 5, 2016 18:24
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The Android app has an option for downloading books as either single files or split into many parts. I don't know how well it works (haven't used it much), but the feature is definitely there. I think that if you start a multi-part download, it will just keep downloading parts until it has the whole book, so you'll need to stop it manually once you have enough downloaded. If it's set to "Only on Wi-Fi", you can still manually start a download I think, it just won't do so automatically.
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Awesome, thanks for the info, folks! I'm pretty decided on it now and excited to have something to listen to besides wrestling podcasts. So when you do the deal where you buy credits, how much do those go for?
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EdsTeioh posted:Awesome, thanks for the info, folks! I'm pretty decided on it now and excited to have something to listen to besides wrestling podcasts. So when you do the deal where you buy credits, how much do those go for? It's usually 3 for $33 or so.
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Oct 5, 2016 19:02
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Full price books for the cost of a paperback. 
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Rad. Sold. Thanks again guys. Gonna grab some William Gibson and get up on it.
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Apoffys posted:The Android app has an option for downloading books as either single files or split into many parts. I don't know how well it works (haven't used it much), but the feature is definitely there. I think that if you start a multi-part download, it will just keep downloading parts until it has the whole book, so you'll need to stop it manually once you have enough downloaded. Speaking of Audible Android App download settings, it seems like the current version (2.8) has an issue where it doesn't recognize my SD card as a download location. I reverted to the default version and it was detected just fine, but on the current version there's no download location setting. My SD card has a ton of free space, and I want to have all the books I've finished on there. Anybody else run into this?
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Do bookmarks sync across devices? For example, I'm listening to something on my work computer, then I want to pick up where I left off on my phone. Is that possible?
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Is there any way for Americans to get our grubby yank paws on the Stephen Fry versions of the Harry Potter audiobooks (without resorting to  )?
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Speaking of Audible Android App download settings, it seems like the current version (2.8) has an issue where it doesn't recognize my SD card as a download location. I reverted to the default version and it was detected just fine, but on the current version there's no download location setting. My SD card has a ton of free space, and I want to have all the books I've finished on there. Anybody else run into this? No idea, sorry. I don't have an SD card in my phone. EdsTeioh posted:Do bookmarks sync across devices? For example, I'm listening to something on my work computer, then I want to pick up where I left off on my phone. Is that possible? Yes. It will even sync with the Kindle version I believe, if you feel like switching between audio book and e-book. When you open the app, it will try to sync and offer to let you continue from your "furthest read location". That can take a few seconds, but it works just fine as long as both devices have internet access when you use them.
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Don't forget about the Audible channels. You're bound to find something you like on there. I'd listen to more, but I just forget about them.
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Apoffys posted:Yes. It will even sync with the Kindle version I believe, if you feel like switching between audio book and e-book. When you open the app, it will try to sync and offer to let you continue from your "furthest read location". That can take a few seconds, but it works just fine as long as both devices have internet access when you use them. I actually answered my own question on the way home. This is very much my jam. Anyone else out there like William Gibson? I'm listening to Spook Country right now but I've got my other free credit, so I'm open to more suggestions.
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I've only read his Sprawl trilogy, but that was excellent. The first book, Neuromancer, was especially great. I read them on paper/Kindle though, so I don't know how good the audiobook versions are.
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Peas and Rice posted:Is there any way for Americans to get our grubby yank paws on the Stephen Fry versions of the Harry Potter audiobooks (without resorting to You can buy them on incredibly expensive CD from Amazon, or cheaper, but sketchier (and probably ) from ebay
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Apoffys posted:I've only read his Sprawl trilogy, but that was excellent. The first book, Neuromancer, was especially great. I read them on paper/Kindle though, so I don't know how good the audiobook versions are. Neuromancer is probably my favorite book ever. My old roommate swore up and down that he had a cassette copy of it with Gibson actually reading it, but I can't find any evidence of that actually existing.
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https://www.discogs.com/William-Gibson-Neuromancer/release/1032711 It certainly looks like a real thing that was made, oddly enough a version abridged by someone else and with incidental music by U2. Finding a copy looks like it could be difficult though, a quick search only turned up a few expensive used copies.
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Apoffys posted:https://www.discogs.com/William-Gibson-Neuromancer/release/1032711 drat. I thought he was full of poo poo this whole time.
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Just a heads up the Prime channels actually do use a non-trivial amount of data, and the books can't be downloaded, only streamed. This is from streaming 9 hours out of the 11 total hours in Ringworld 
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Well drat. Good to know. How are you digging Ringworld?
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EdsTeioh posted:Well drat. Good to know. How are you digging Ringworld?
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Syrinxx posted:1970s - an abundance of leisuretime sex But you repeat yourself.
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EdsTeioh posted:Rad. Sold. Thanks again guys. Gonna grab some William Gibson and get up on it. Also check out Whispersynch where you buy a cheap ebook then add in the audio version for a couple bucks. Also it keeps your spot saved and updated between text and audio. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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I've always meant to give Sterling a shot.
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EdsTeioh posted:drat. I thought he was full of poo poo this whole time. Not only does it exist, it's kind of amazing. Reposting thoughts on it from 2012: Gibson's abridged reading of Neuromancer was the first audiobook I ever listened to at the age of ten. Listening to it now after becoming a bit of an audiobook snob and reading the full version of Neuromancer many, many times, I can see the flaws in the Gibson reading. Even so, something about it just works. The abridgement turns a book that's already a bit chaotic and disorienting into a fever dream, and Gibson's bizarre accent and cadence just feel "Sprawl" in a way that people who try to read it more like a neo-noir don't manage. Nostalgia is clearly at work here because it is an objectively bad abridgement and a bad-to-decent reading, but there's something about it that speaks to me.
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Kestral posted:Not only does it exist, it's kind of amazing. Reposting thoughts on it from 2012: He still swears that his was unabridged. I'm going to listen to this though; that sounds awesome. Edit: Not sure if this counts as or not, but here's a link to it: http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html
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coyo7e posted:Also check out Whispersynch where you buy a cheap ebook then add in the audio version for a couple bucks. Also it keeps your spot saved and updated between text and audio. Pro tip: If your local library checks out e-books through Amazon, if the book you check out has an audio companion, you can buy it at the discounted price. That's my best "so good it's almost stealing" tip. Library card is free. Pay your loving late fees and make it rain audiobooks.
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EdsTeioh posted:He still swears that his was unabridged. I'm going to listen to this though; that sounds awesome. You can thank Island Records for never re-issuing this. Also, it's always amazing to me when people realize that Gibson is a Southerner (why do you think he puts Knoxville in most of his novels?)
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