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Post by reclaimingrebus on Jan 3, 2010 23:27:30 GMT 1
If you listen to e-books when walking the librivox.org site is great. All the e-books on there are recorded by volunteers and are in the public domain (ie the copyright has run out) so it's free and legal to download them. Its great for those classics you think you should read, but don't. The quality is quite variable, but as downloading is free, if you don't like it, download something else instead I've downloaded Dickens, kipling and Orczy - and am off to look for some M R James. The best are the same sort of quality as you would expect from Audible, and I downloaded a copy of Barnaby Rudge ( all 30 hrours of it) that was brilliant They are alsways looking for volunteers to proof listen or read, so it might be really good for a community project.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jan 3, 2010 23:35:58 GMT 1
Sounds good... Er... what is an MP3? ;D I've just started reading Ranulph Fiennes' The Sett - that in bed and to try to get some sleep, but it is one of those books that encourages page turning. Much is set in the area where I grew up, and a map of that area is what caught my eye when I spotted it in a charity shop.
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Post by nicki on Jan 4, 2010 12:27:37 GMT 1
Thank you so much for this - what an excellent idea. I have cross posted the link to a couple of other forums I belong to - I hope that's ok, it would be great to get more people involved.
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Post by reclaimingrebus on Jan 4, 2010 19:13:38 GMT 1
Al, an MP3 player is something like an IPod. You can play audio files on them, either music or audio-books. You can also download and play the files from the computer, it stores them on the hard drive and you can play them with something like Media Player . Or you could downhload and copy to Cd and play the old-fashioned way. I love my IPods, as I don't read much on the printed page these days. Post the links anywhere you like , Nikki, as a website they are just interested in getting the word out there, and its a great way of having access to books you wouldn't necessarily read the old fashioned way, and its a great way of coming across works that you didn't know existed but that someone thought was worth bringing to a wider audience.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jan 5, 2010 0:40:52 GMT 1
I am still in the days of tape recorders and tapes, I fear! Do have some sort of a CD player with an ear piece, though, and that does play CDs. Had it when I went into hospital, so perhaps that is an Ipod? (How do they think up the names of these gadgets? ) ;D
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Post by reclaimingrebus on Jan 13, 2010 0:58:23 GMT 1
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jan 13, 2010 1:02:08 GMT 1
And there was me thinking a dab was just a fingerprint... ;D
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Post by reclaimingrebus on Jan 13, 2010 1:05:06 GMT 1
once the granddaughter has been round I've got plenty of those, too
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Post by petdesigns on Jan 13, 2010 10:22:12 GMT 1
With a mad springer, I can't afford to listen to anything whilst walking...
ROFL - "dab" is a German beer! "DAB, sonst keins!" (says the woman who doesn't drink beer!)
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Post by reclaimingrebus on Jan 13, 2010 12:34:50 GMT 1
I do frequently look up and wonder where they are, but invariably Rebus is prospecting in the rubbish bins and maisie has gone down to watch the trains go by.
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Post by Evie on Mar 7, 2010 19:17:03 GMT 1
I love the idea of listening to stuff whilst walking, but I need to have my wits about me with the dogs and would probably be to immersed in the story or music if I had headphones on! Then again I can't seem to walk and text at the same time either. Multi tasking is not my forte.
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Post by kay17 on Mar 11, 2010 21:10:16 GMT 1
What a great idea! I normally just listen to music... never thought to put a story on there xxx
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Post by murtle on Mar 14, 2010 14:10:04 GMT 1
Thank you for this, I am not good with my IPod and music, but am trying out audible so will have a browse round this too.
Thanks Mxxx
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Post by chrissie on Apr 11, 2010 13:38:51 GMT 1
thanks for link, I've bookmarked it. I have, just recently, got around to knowing what an MP3 player is. Now I just need to know what is the cheapest that will store a decent amount of audio text on, and for that, I'm not sure. Don't want to buy a pig in a poke, equally cannot afford very much - any suggestions on models would be a great help. I've noticed that descriptions online often don't seem to give very much info about them?
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Post by nicki on Apr 11, 2010 15:20:40 GMT 1
Just asked hubby - he said that not all MP3 players will store audio books. We're pretty sure that Sony and Sandisk ones do - it should say in the specifications.
The best thing is to set a budget - and then look at the players in that price range.
Amazon tell you if they do audio books if you expand the technical details section.
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Post by chrissie on Apr 11, 2010 19:27:15 GMT 1
Thanks for that. I've found a SanDisk one which I think I can afford. It does say it takes music and audio books. It is 8GB with a slot to use a microSD card also. I've absolutely no idea how big a file an 'average' audio book might be, does anyone have an idea of file sizes for a reasonable length book?
It's ok, I think I've answered my own question and 8GB is quite a few books!
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Post by reclaimingrebus on Apr 11, 2010 20:35:21 GMT 1
My ipod nano is 4gb and I have Brideshead Revisited, The Complaints, The Fabric of Sin, Interesting times,Much Obliged Jeeves, Persuasion and Sprig Muslin loaded. I've used just over 1 GB. these are all in the high quality format. If you download from Audible you will need to be able to use iTunes. Hope that helps Edited to add. see this linlk www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000367803If you sign up for membership audible will give you £50 towards the cost of an mp3 player, if it costs less then its free. Its how I started, and its been great. Further edited to add .. also Summer Lightning, Uncle Fred in the Springtime and Moby Dick (its half full now)
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