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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 13, 2021 20:13:17 GMT
Will you take a check...? I will take a roc-bird egg.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 13, 2021 20:33:42 GMT
audiobooks or "audibles." I find the popularity of these quite strange--guess I'm wired differently from most. I do occasionally enjoy hearing a book read aloud IF the reader has a voice with what I would consider a good timbre, has what I consider to be good diction, and can bring some nuance and flair to the reading. Most of these things, judging from the few I have had to encounter, are read either by Midwestern Americans with voices so banal you long for sleep but are unable to find it due to the insistent braying of phonemes, or, if it's a UK production, one of the most ghastly examples of "estuary English." Just not my flagon of mead. I have to say they can grow on you. Of course it all depends on the reader. If you can't stand the voice or how the text is interpreted, it is a waste of money. I never was a fan when they still sold mostly as CDs. They were very expensive, you needed a player or a Walkman and I was no jogger. When downloads became more popular and one could play them on a handy or PC, for me it became more interesting as I hear them mostly outside. At first I mostly picked books I had already read and liked. All genres. From Sherlock Holmes to Cornwell's Sharpe. It is a different experience and you don't need to concentrate so much on hearing. Later I tried new books. Currently it is Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts, which is a lot of fun. I don't get the appeal of condensed versions which are produced surprisingly often either. Of course big books are for long hearing. King's The Stand is in translation 54 hours long for instance. I guess it can be a bit daunting to commit yourself to 4 months or more of hearing to complete the novel. So maybe that is why the shorter versions are bought. You get the plot.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 13, 2021 20:34:13 GMT
Will you take a check...? I will take a roc-bird egg. I would have thought kittens.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 14, 2021 6:56:31 GMT
Will you take a check...? I will take a roc-bird egg. I'll see what I can do.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 27, 2024 18:53:50 GMT
Phil Baker’s masterful biography The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley I acquired the somewhat expensive Kindle edition of this, only to find the text is in red. I am not sure I can read that.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 27, 2024 20:02:30 GMT
How horrible. Maybe you can change that? I use a "Paperwhite" Kindle "device" and it doesn't do colors at all. And sometimes, that is a blessing.
Hel.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 27, 2024 20:09:32 GMT
How horrible. Maybe you can change that? No, the Kindle Android app does not allow you to do that. I also have one of those. On it, the red text shows up as an unreadable rasterized representation of pale gray.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 27, 2024 20:45:31 GMT
Phil Baker’s masterful biography The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley I acquired the somewhat expensive Kindle edition of this, only to find the text is in red. I am not sure I can read that. Shudder. Seems this is in all editions. This is truly idiotic. Maybe the devil made them do it :-)
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Post by andax530 on Mar 28, 2024 12:38:57 GMT
You can download the file as AZW3 from your Amazon "Content Library" page, edit it to change the font color and resend to kindle as EPUB. Or, there is already a version with the font color fixed out there if you want to check some of the usual places.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2024 20:50:49 GMT
Or, there is already a version with the font color fixed out there if you want to check some of the usual places. I find three at Library Genesis. Which, if any, are corrected?
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Post by andax530 on Mar 29, 2024 12:38:12 GMT
The file where the title is in all lowercase appears to be correct, the one with every title word capitalized has the red font.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 29, 2024 13:47:29 GMT
The file where the title is in all lowercase appears to be correct, the one with every title word capitalized has the red font. Thanks!
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