On the road again
I’ve been driving a lot the past two weeks (hence, little time to blog). Thank goodness for audiobooks. I’m on my third now or, at least I will be, as soon as I finish burning the eleven CDs required to transfer the library’s e-book to a form I can listen to in the car as the Overdrive DRM they use isn’t compatible with my three-year-old MP3 player. That means that I’ll probably give the library’s audiobooks a miss because if I have to buy dozens of CDs just to listen to a few, I’d be better off buying the recordings, myself!
Of other audiobooks I’ve consumed lately, I heartily enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers which was compatible with the old Sansa (thanks to Audible.com’s rather more functional DRM features). Less enchanted with the abridged Persuasion which I’d bought from eMusic a while back. (The narration was great but the editorial slashing was painful.)
I’m listenng to a sf novel called Eifelheim at the moment. The narration is pretty good, with two exceptions: the actor reading it has made some horrendous mispronunciations, and the vocal dynamics are such that I find myself having to constantly adjust the volume. Considering that many people listen to such things while commuting in cities, it’s not ideal.