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Note to anyone that might be tempted to get this as an audiobook: Don't! It didn't occur to me that the subject matter would be incompatible with narration, bu
by function_seven 4y ago
Note to anyone that might be tempted to get this as an audiobook: Don't!
It didn't occur to me that the subject matter would be incompatible with narration, but it (IMO) just doesn't work that way. Large portions of the book have equations and heavy notation. Here's an actual passage:
> it can be simplified to cee equals bracket two aitch over em end-bracket to the one half power times bracket one minus parentheses pee e over pee cee end parentheses to the ar over cee pee power end bracket to the one half power.
Yeah, I just couldn't keep listening to that. I need to get a print copy, because the subject matter is interesting.
- PebblesRox 4y agoReminds me of a family story about my aunt recounting a Feynman lecture to her kids. She was drawing some diagrams he'd used and they said, "Wait a minute, how do you know what these looked like? Weren't you just listening to the audio?" She realized that Feynman's verbal explanations were so clear that she had not had any trouble visualizing the diagrams as he drew and discussed them.