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I'm listening to audiobooks for most of the day while working, and 100% of time while driving or doing chores around the house. Almost all non-fiction, and almo
by sndean 6y ago
I'm listening to audiobooks for most of the day while working, and 100% of time while driving or doing chores around the house. Almost all non-fiction, and almost all history. Consume some paper books too, but maybe only 5%?
Audible has become pretty expensive, with hundreds of books. I started using Librivox, but the time listening to professional narrators has made me spoiled with Audie winners like Derek Perkins. Some of Librivox narrators are pretty good, though.
I even investigated how much it'd cost to commission a well-known narrator to read a book that doesn't exist in audiobook form – it's a few thousand dollars.
[0] https://librivox.org/ https://librivox.org/
- hemloc_io 6y agoI have the same love/hate relationship with audiobooks. I'm hoping one day that we can get software reading books in a convincing/pleasurable way. Maybe a company like DeeScript realizes the possibilities of their tech. Otherwise I don't think the audiobook model really scales. (What's the point in investing x thousands of dollars for a book that isn't/won't sell.) [0] https://www.descript.com/ https://www.descript.com/
- Causality1 6y agoFor me, the new "read aloud" narration in Google Assistant crossed the threshold into good enough. It'll only narrate a web page about three hours long but I've split a couple books into pieces and had it read them into Audacity to make audiobooks of novels that didn't have them. I wish there was an easier way to do it.