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To: ProgressingAmerica

I still like to hold the book in my hands, call me old school.


3 posted on 10/15/2025 7:12:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

I wouldn’t call you old school in that regard.

However that is realistically some limitation. I keep an eye on audio book popularity from time to time because we are creating them, and ours are all free/public domain.

We can give as many copies to as many people as we want without the limitation of cost/price or a physical item. In theory anyways. I do run into people from time to time who ask for the link to the text after we transform something. I think that is also useful.


4 posted on 10/15/2025 7:20:01 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: srmanuel

I do too; but a lot of housework and other chores are kind of mindless, and I like to listen to something interesting while I work.

I’ve found I can’t do fiction audiobooks; I have to actually read fiction; but I like audio nonfiction, various lectures, podcasts, etc.


6 posted on 10/15/2025 7:25:22 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: srmanuel
I still like to hold the book in my hands, call me old school.

' I was the same way UNTIL I started using Audible. For one thing by listening to books instead of reading, you don't put strain on your eyes. Also, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and I go to my audio book which after 10 or 15 minutes gets me back to sleep again. I set the audio until end of chapter and the next day go back to the last place I remembered before falling asleep.

Finally, it fights boredom. Wherever I go I have the audio books with me on the cellphone and can listen at anytime.

14 posted on 10/15/2025 8:33:13 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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