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Just finished The Wager by David Grann, absolutely incredible audiobook. The narrator (Dion Graham) reads every sentence like it's the most loving interesting thing he's every heard and I tell you, it works. Probably helps that the writing is good. I spent the day cleaning the apartment just so I could finish it. Tried a couple other books this morning and just immediately disappointed by the narrator every time.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:Just finished The Wager by David Grann, absolutely incredible audiobook. The narrator (Dion Graham) reads every sentence like it's the most loving interesting thing he's every heard and I tell you, it works. Read his narration of "American War."
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Armauk posted:Read his narration of "American War." Long waiting list for The Wager but this was available; thanks for the rec
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Mar 10, 2024 12:41
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Hmm, already read that (in print), liked it ok, maybe I'll give it another go.
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I don’t even know anything about d&d, but I’m enjoying dungeon crawler Carl a lot. It’s something that I admittedly would never have read in print. But the narration is just perfect and it’s great to listen to in the background without having to spend too much attention to it.
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Anyone know if there’s any decent dedicated devices to play audiobooks on that have a) good battery & b) are affordable and maybe for extra points c) can play podcasts? Currently using a 2019 iPod Touch but the complete bastards at Apple have decided to discontinue this product line! Fuckers! Anyone got any ideas what to get next that’s not a smartphone (don’t want a smartphone)
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Anyone know if there’s any decent dedicated devices to play audiobooks on that have a) good battery & b) are affordable and maybe for extra points c) can play podcasts? Currently using a 2019 iPod Touch but the complete bastards at Apple have decided to discontinue this product line! Fuckers! Anyone got any ideas what to get next that’s not a smartphone (don’t want a smartphone) Sony still sells a Walkman branded product; couldn't tell you if it's any good though: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-nw-a306-walkman-a-series-black/6531351.p?skuId=6531351 They also have an $800 model and a $1400 
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Mar 11, 2024 06:29
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The answer is a mobile phone, just don't put a Sim card in it and don't install unnecessary apps.
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Mar 11, 2024 07:50
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Anyone know if there’s any decent dedicated devices to play audiobooks on that have a) good battery & b) are affordable and maybe for extra points c) can play podcasts? Currently using a 2019 iPod Touch but the complete bastards at Apple have decided to discontinue this product line! Fuckers! Anyone got any ideas what to get next that’s not a smartphone (don’t want a smartphone) You could buy one of these 10 bucks usb stick players and download podcast with media monkey or something. You’d be the coolest kid on the block. I appreciate not wanting a smartphone, but it’s probably cheaper than a dedicated ipod type device.
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Yeah I recently upgraded computers and to my horror realized my trusty ipod 5g (with the wheel!) no longer works with it thanks to itunes being rolled into apple music. I don't use it for podcasts and books but it's the best for walking around with tunes, and I have a playlist I've built over like 20 years of using mp3s. I just prefer the user interface to that of a smart phone, it's more precise and quick. Makes me wanna research what modern music players are like but I imagine I'll be disappointed. It'd be nice to get my book listening off my overloaded phone storage though.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Yeah I recently upgraded computers and to my horror realized my trusty ipod 5g (with the wheel!) no longer works with it thanks to itunes being rolled into apple music. I don't use it for podcasts and books but it's the best for walking around with tunes, and I have a playlist I've built over like 20 years of using mp3s. I just prefer the user interface to that of a smart phone, it's more precise and quick.
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Armauk posted:Have you considered installing Rockbox? Looked into it, seemed hard. Maybe I'll look again.
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imnotinsane posted:The answer is a mobile phone, just don't put a Sim card in it and don't install unnecessary apps. I use my old Galaxy S3 as my MP3 player now. Also, currently listening to Patrick Stewart's autobiography. Good stuff so far (I'm up to the end of his Bristol school days).
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Many modern phone apps want you to stream audiobooks due to the whole current era of "rent everything forever and own nothing!" corporate mentality. F dat. I've been using an iOS app forever called simply "MP3 Audiobook Player". It has all of the normal bells and whistles of like faster reading options, etc. But where it excels is that you can turn on a temporary web server off of your phone/iOS device and you can upload audiobook files to it via WiFi. Then turn off the web server feature, and it just plays the files.
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jeeves posted:Many modern phone apps want you to stream audiobooks due to the whole current era of "rent everything forever and own nothing!" corporate mentality. F dat. This is the way. I've had audiobooks vanish from my Audible library, never to return, which are now impossible to find outside of  . Now I archive everything and ensure it's playable offline.
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Government Handjob posted:Dungeon Crawler Carl has been mentioned a couple of times the last few pages so I'm a little late to the party, but I bought the first book two weeks ago and holy hell what a fun series this turned out to be. I usually don't listen to podcasts or audiobooks when I'm not commuting or working but I have spent several hours just chilling on my couch listening to Jeff Hayes saying the most insane poo poo and having a grand ol' time. I'm about a third of the way through book 6 now and I'm dreading having to wait for new releases. Ugh - I plowed through all six audiobooks a couple of months ago and have been going through serious withdrawals. I guess you can join his Patreon to get access to the new chapters of book 7 as they come out, but I can't imagine that story without Jeff Hayes doing his thing. That guy is amazing. MONGO IS APPALLED!
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Kestral posted:This is the way. I've had audiobooks vanish from my Audible library, never to return, which are now impossible to find outside of What are you using to archive? I just noticed that a couple titles were gone from my audible library and the torrent sites I know of don't have the books I listen to.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:Just finished The Wager by David Grann, absolutely incredible audiobook. The narrator (Dion Graham) reads every sentence like it's the most loving interesting thing he's every heard and I tell you, it works. Probably helps that the writing is good. I spent the day cleaning the apartment just so I could finish it.
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God help me; I'm actually considering a litrpg series novel, because the narration editing in the sample seems really good.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Thanks to Audible having a 3 month free trial, I’ve gotten into listening to audiobooks after a loooong hiatus. I’m not sure what to spend my first of three credits on so far but I’m listening to Between Two Fires. Excellent book, and really good narrator too! Highly recommend it so far if you like sort of grounded historical fantasy (the part with the fight against the river monster with the hand on its tail was genuinely chilling) I really loved this book thank you for recommending it! Also really enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl. I'm about half way through the second one.
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Mister Facetious posted:God help me; I'm actually considering a litrpg series novel, because the narration editing in the sample seems really good. Travis Baldree can make some of the most amateur attempts at writing sound amazing and cozy.
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I was gonna start a relisten to Incryptid since there was a new one out, but the first DCC was on sale for 6 bucks so I grabbed it instead. Guess I have a new series to listen too!
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Soonmot posted:I was gonna start a relisten to Incryptid since there was a new one out, but the first DCC was on sale for 6 bucks so I grabbed it instead. Guess I have a new series to listen too! DCC is seriously one of the best pieces of entertainment I listened to.
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kaaj posted:DCC is seriously one of the best pieces of entertainment I listened to. It will seriously get inside your head and stay there rent-free. My wife and I both listened to the series separately around the first of the year and now we're both running through it a second time. Something about the source material and the narration is just so goddamn entertaining.
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It is insanity that I am now considering spending a credit on a loving litrpg book
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if it helps you in your decision, i will never listen to that in a million years based on the title alone. you guys could be saying it cures cancer and I wouldn't.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:if it helps you in your decision, i will never listen to that in a million years based on the title alone. you guys could be saying it cures cancer and I wouldn't.
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mystes posted:You should read CCC (cancer curing cat) NEVER
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I started listening to Blindsight but I needed to pause mid book after realizing that I had no clue what the first half was about. Need to give myself a break before picking it up again.
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Might be slightly hard to follow the more out there scifi concepts in that one with audio alone. The text version also has an amazing appendix that Watts put together which is absolutely worth going through, found a book there that had a significant effect on my life during my adolescence lol
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Demon Copperhead is really good
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Tosk posted:Might be slightly hard to follow the more out there scifi concepts in that one with audio alone. A bit ironic for a book named blindsight.
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Enfys posted:Demon Copperhead is really good What did you like about it?
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Armauk posted:What did you like about it? I'm only a bit over halfway through it (it's nearly 22 hours), but I'm coming up with excuses to listen to it here and there as often as possible now. I walked for an extra hour today because I wanted to keep listening. The narrative coming of age structure is well suited to an audiobook; the writing is a combination of humourous, heart-breaking, and biting social satire; and the narrator does an amazing job at breathing life into the performance. If you have read David Copperfield, the general plot beats won't be a surprise, but it somehow manages to be a unique story of its own.
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Going through the Penguin version of the Night Watch stories in Discworld. Are there any other audiobooks that aren’t Discworld where the narrator does different voices for the characters well? Fantasy/sci-fi, in case you want a genre.
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The man called M posted:Are there any other audiobooks that aren’t Discworld where the narrator does different voices for the characters well? Anything narrated by Moira Quirk.
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I know a lot of you are John Lee fans. I recently listened to Paul Cartledge's "Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past" and John Lee was the narrator. If you're into history, especially the classical world, this is a good one. Besides being a brilliant historian Cartledge is also a lively writer, so John is put to good use. It's on Audible Plus, btw.
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The man called M posted:Going through the Penguin version of the Night Watch stories in Discworld. Are there any other audiobooks that aren’t Discworld where the narrator does different voices for the characters well? "American War" narrated by Dion Graham. I listened to it after it was recommended earlier this page (still waiting on The Wager), and he's an incredible narrator. The book is more dystopia than sci fi though.
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The man called M posted:Going through the Penguin version of the Night Watch stories in Discworld. Are there any other audiobooks that aren’t Discworld where the narrator does different voices for the characters well? Thread favorite Dungeon Crawler Carl
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The man called M posted:Going through the Penguin version of the Night Watch stories in Discworld. Are there any other audiobooks that aren’t Discworld where the narrator does different voices for the characters well? I thought the Sapkowski Witcher series did this especially well. I think the narrator's name is Peter Kenny.
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