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I completely get this. Between family, my full time job, side projects.. I had no choice but to listen to some of these books as Audio books.. I ended up prett

by lbacaj 8y ago

I completely get this. Between family, my full time job, side projects.. I had no choice but to listen to some of these books as Audio books.. I ended up pretty much listening to 25+ audio books this year.. the only way to make the content stick is to: 1) take a ton of notes 2) do exactly as you say, rewind over and over until you can mark it down. These are the next few features I want to add to this thing, taking notes and rewinding quickly and bookmarking snippets precisely because of your point that audio requires a little more work to retain. Still worth it though, I would have never been able to read that many books this year given how busy I am. Ultimately I will concede that it will never beat reading, but when we have no time or are commuting? This, in my opinion, is the next best thing for busy people.

chiefalchemist 8y ago
Could you...hit button, have it rewind some fixed amount of time (10 secs a tap?) and then email / store a text transcript of that segment? __That__ might be something I'd like to try.
- lbacaj 8y ago
  For sure planning the rewinds by second but even more I’m planning sentence rewinds so one could rewind sentence by sentence and even saving snippets of one or more sentences.. I hadn’t thought about emailing that though, it’s a solid idea thank you.
  - chiefalchemist 8y ago
    I still buy paper books, mainly because the library frowns on highlighting and notes in the margins :) Fwiw, I've been wanting to do a website where I - and others? - could share the highlighted bits (in an easy on the eye pull quote-y sorta way). More or less my personal notes in public. Kinda like Cliff Notes meets meme-y inspiration type quotes. But also as a sample of the book for those curious about reading it. That's why I'd want a transcript. For my records, so to speak. I should ask mention, 95% of what I read is non-fiction.
  - chiefalchemist 8y ago
    To be clear, I don't care if the text is the __exact__ bit I want to save or not. A bit too much on either end is time. I can always edit (if necessary). My immediate want / need would simply be the capture.
chiefalchemist 8y ago
Two more things to add... 1) It was recommended to me at one point to listen at a faster playback speed. Evidently, the novelty forces the brain to focus more, and thus have better retention. 2) What about a audio effect for highlighting? Some sort of filter? Or perhaps more bass? Something to say "you liked this bit before"?
- lbacaj 8y ago
  I think we are definitely already planning the first one. The second one is super interesting.. I’ll have to think about it a bit but it’s a great idea for sure.
arethuza 8y ago
I probably listen to ~40 audio books a year and I'd love something that allowed me to review the text of what I had just listened to and re-read and highlight specific parts. Also something that displays diagrams/maps sensibly would be good too! Edit: And by "love" I mean "pay" - I'd happily pay the same amount as my Audible subscription for a service that helped with this.

by lbacaj 8y ago

chiefalchemist 8y ago

Could you...hit button, have it rewind some fixed amount of time (10 secs a tap?) and then email / store a text transcript of that segment? __That__ might be something I'd like to try.

lbacaj 8y ago
For sure planning the rewinds by second but even more I’m planning sentence rewinds so one could rewind sentence by sentence and even saving snippets of one or more sentences.. I hadn’t thought about emailing that though, it’s a solid idea thank you.
- chiefalchemist 8y ago
  I still buy paper books, mainly because the library frowns on highlighting and notes in the margins :) Fwiw, I've been wanting to do a website where I - and others? - could share the highlighted bits (in an easy on the eye pull quote-y sorta way). More or less my personal notes in public. Kinda like Cliff Notes meets meme-y inspiration type quotes. But also as a sample of the book for those curious about reading it. That's why I'd want a transcript. For my records, so to speak. I should ask mention, 95% of what I read is non-fiction.
- chiefalchemist 8y ago
  To be clear, I don't care if the text is the __exact__ bit I want to save or not. A bit too much on either end is time. I can always edit (if necessary). My immediate want / need would simply be the capture.

chiefalchemist 8y ago

Two more things to add... 1) It was recommended to me at one point to listen at a faster playback speed. Evidently, the novelty forces the brain to focus more, and thus have better retention. 2) What about a audio effect for highlighting? Some sort of filter? Or perhaps more bass? Something to say "you liked this bit before"?

lbacaj 8y ago
I think we are definitely already planning the first one. The second one is super interesting.. I’ll have to think about it a bit but it’s a great idea for sure.

arethuza 8y ago

I probably listen to ~40 audio books a year and I'd love something that allowed me to review the text of what I had just listened to and re-read and highlight specific parts. Also something that displays diagrams/maps sensibly would be good too! Edit: And by "love" I mean "pay" - I'd happily pay the same amount as my Audible subscription for a service that helped with this.