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Nosy_G posted:For all of you people bitching that The Wheel of Time is too long/too hard to read, (because of all the skirt-smoothing, etc.,) I find that the audiobooks by Michel Kramer and Kate Reading are an easy way to enjoy the books (not to mention figuring out how to pronounce some of the names in those book). Anyone complaining that TWoT is too hard to read has never picked up the War of Light and Shadow series by Janny Wurts.  Not sure if I've mentioned them before or not, but I'm really loving the Dresden Files audiobooks as read by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) - his voice really suits Harry Dresden well. I tried the first Sookie Stackhouse audiobook narrated by Johanna Parker and couldn't really get into it - I don't know whether it was her voice or just the accent she put on for it, but it really just started grating on me after a while. If you are a fan of How I Met Your Mother, then its pretty much a must to pick up the audio version of The Bro Code - its read by Neil Patrick Harris and is a good way to pass a couple of hours.
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The General posted:Though one thing to look out for is to make sure your MP3 player supports audible. Edit: For other AudioBooks sites, Podiobooks.com has a bunch of free audiobooks, they release them chapter by chapter though, which may or may not be your thing. The quality is very hit and miss too. Tornhelm fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Dec 1, 2009 |
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The General posted:It is a pretty big issue when your laptop can hardly run MSN, firefox and iTunes at the same time. The processing power to turn Audible into MP3 is pretty significant and would mean hours where I couldn't use it. Then there's the issue if your MP3 player sucks (as it probably does if it doens't support Audible) that you end up with 8 hour MP3 files that you can't bookmark or quickly navigate large lengths of time (gently caress you Sansa). Not really, if your laptop is slow its just an issue of time. On my current PC it took about 5 minutes to convert the latest Wheel of Time and that was 4 parts. Audible files are pretty much just wrapped mp3's anyway so it isn't actually that problematic.
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PBCrunch posted:I finished it today. The story got a lot better, the narration became more appropriate to the subject matter. I recommend this book and I am moving right on to the sequel Freedom. I was going to grab these, only to find out that they aren't available from Audible if you live in Australia (gently caress you Daniel Suarez!). I've been tempted to cancel my Audible account lately, just because of how many credits are starting to build up in my account from not being able to find fun new things to listen to.
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I've just grabbed the Percy Jackson books from Audible to chew up my excess credits, and then I sent an email to cancel my subscription. So far, I'm enjoying the first book (about 1/3 of the way through) but glad I've got rid of the account.
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Tanith posted:Does Audible produce their own stuff, or do they just resell other companies' products? I know they're an Amazon subsidiary and all that. Both. They do in-house stuff, and then there's things like The Dresden Files which they yoink from Buzzy Multimedia who do them.
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I ended my subscription (another Aussie) for the same reason that imnotinsane did. The sheer amount of content we don't have access to due to region locking just pissed me off immensely.
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Wade Wilson posted:Just got an email from Audible where I get to pick a free book from a random selection of five books. John Scalzi is usually a good read, from memory though The Sagan Diary was more like book 2.5 of the series and you really should read at least Old Man's War (the second book The Ghost Brigades would help too) before listening to it. To be honest, its probably the weakest work he's done.
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