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(DIR) Post #Amk1YQT4pFC9F7vh5M by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-06T20:57:42Z
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Some kind of audiobook pre-purchase option where you can buy the audiobook of a text without one and the money piles up until someone realizes that it's a job that needs to be done. I feel like audiobooks only get made for new "big" books and there isn't enough combing back through older books and recording them.
(DIR) Post #Amk3lomlvMCCKsehNY by SusiArnott@mastodon.green
2024-10-06T21:22:30Z
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@futurebird Go on, give us the fr'instance that bugs you most
(DIR) Post #Amk5tsl7Ee2MsqqzZo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-06T21:46:24Z
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@SusiArnott Too many to name really. I'm unlikely to read a fiction book if I can't listen to it. I hardly ever have the time. (Non-fiction is different.) I have a list of books I check on from time to time and think about reading, but I would have gotten to them by now if I could find an unabridged audio. Also my niece is blind and there are a lot of books I want to recommend to her but I hate pointing out something she can't just pick up right away.
(DIR) Post #Amk8byiIeoM409gu7k by specialcase@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T22:16:46Z
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@futurebird I periodically run into an older (digital) audiobook that still has "Please insert next disc" or more hilariously "Please flip over tape." But I'd guess there's a big valley between the mid-/late-90s and mid-oughts where a lot of stuff never got an audiobook due to minimum manufacturing costs.
(DIR) Post #Amk8qPddLfPpYrOJbk by Dervishpi@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T22:19:17Z
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@futurebird Some people seem to be using text-to-speech to produce listenable versions of their books. I can't say good things about the quality, but it's being done.
(DIR) Post #Amk8vuvqQVbC45XAps by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-06T22:20:23Z
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@Dervishpi At that point I'll read. I can read *much* faster than I can listen. I just can't read on a bus or train for very long without feeling a little woozy and that's where most of my free time for stories exits!
(DIR) Post #Amk97v2zp7OJtibOHA by Dervishpi@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T22:22:30Z
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@futurebird I prefer reading, too - unless they can find actually /good/ readers for when my eyes and stomach won't let me do it myself!Good luck finding what you need.
(DIR) Post #Amk9NxIzCEnbX9jCCW by mhoye@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T22:22:26Z
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@specialcase @futurebird My all time faves were the kids books that came with a tape to read along and they'd tell you to remember to turn the page at the sound of the whatever, like for the Indiana Jones book it was a whip sound, for the Star Wars book it was a light saber swoop.
(DIR) Post #AmkB38GhRMxJMWrCGO by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T22:44:04Z
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@futurebird I was just reading an interview with an author. The author stated that Audible was responsible for 75% of his income. Amazon Kindle most of the rest so he now has an exclusive deal with Kindle for digital books because he does better the the other digital platforms amount to so little.Most interesting is that Audible normally has contracts where the book must be on Audible for 6 months (or less if you have enough power and a great agent) before they can be available as text.
(DIR) Post #AmkFuFEkf5Bs8iWkdM by LPerry2@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T23:38:31Z
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@futurebird I'm not an audiobooks person (I don't want someone else's voice between me and the book) but my sister, who had a hellish two-hour commute every day, was ecstatic to discover Georgette Heyer (she died in the early '70s) on audiobooks. My sister claims that those audiobooks, of that author who died 50 years ago, saved her sanity.