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What do you use to listen to audio books files? Some normal audio player is rather cumbersome, due to missing progress tracking.
Does anyone else have an issue with audiobooks as literature? Like, if I'm not able to control the pace at which I'm paying attention, it's problematic. I can't guarantee I'll pay 100 percent attention to noise that otherwise would almost be background to me. Regardless, the selection here is pretty bad-ass.
One significant negative of audiobooks is that I tend to listen while doing "active but mindless" activities (mowing the lawn, commuting, cleaning my office, doing dishes/chores) which means I'm not in a position to stop and take notes in the margin or in a notebook. To really absorb a work and make it your own I think you need to take notes and summarize the main points of each chapter, in your own words, after finishing each chapter.
That said, listening-only is far better than having no exposure to these great works. Would I would love even more is to have commentaries or Joe-Rogan-Style recorded discussions about the books by academics so I could read the book, listen to discussions about the book, then read the book again with these critiques in mind.
Does anyone else have an issue with audiobooks as literature? Like, if I'm not able to control the pace at which I'm paying attention, it's problematic. I can't guarantee I'll pay 100 percent attention to noise that otherwise would almost be background to me. Regardless, the selection here is pretty bad-ass.
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As oppose to having some books free but riddled with vpn and pill commercial very 10 mins? They need to make money somehow.
Amazon "sells" classics for free, I thought there was something similar in Audible that I was not aware of
https://www.audible.co.uk/ep/alexa-free-audiobook
Caveat being, audiobooks can be rather long and it might be a push to fit them into the month!
Does anyone else have an issue with audiobooks as literature? Like, if I'm not able to control the pace at which I'm paying attention, it's problematic. I can't guarantee I'll pay 100 percent attention to noise that otherwise would almost be background to me. Regardless, the selection here is pretty bad-ass.
Is there something inherent in literature that requires it to be visually consumed? Yes, it's too easy to let one's mind wander while listening to an audiobook but I find it helps to have a group/book club with which to discuss the book afterward. One significant negative of audiobooks is that I tend to listen while doing "active but mindless" activities (mowing the lawn, commuting, cleaning my office, doing dishes/c…
First link I click on is a dud (Asimov, Isaac - "The Last Question" ) due to copyright claims. Not a great start tbh.
For a free conversion tool, checkout
- https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool
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Another Librivox treasure is David Clarke's reading of The Count of Monte Cristo : https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-version-3-by-...
Treasure Island v2 read by Adrian praetzellis is ... Also a treasure
The Wind in the Willows:
https://librivox.org/the-wind-in-the-willows-by-kenneth-grah...
The Thirty-Nine Steps:
Does anyone else have an issue with audiobooks as literature? Like, if I'm not able to control the pace at which I'm paying attention, it's problematic. I can't guarantee I'll pay 100 percent attention to noise that otherwise would almost be background to me. Regardless, the selection here is pretty bad-ass.