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Sunday, November 27, 2005
9:13:00 PM EST
Feeling Chillin'
I've
been a member of Audible.com since 2000. At two books a month, that's a
lot of books. Not to mention books from my wife's audible account that
she doesn't use - maybe 10 per year. If you have a long commute of 30
mins or more, you should subscribe. It is worth every penny.
Here are my top favorites:
FIVE STAR
***** A Game of Thrones, Storm of Swords, Clash of Kings all by George AA Martin. These are simply the best Fantasy books. Listen to them in order. Hours and hours of a great story.
*****The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman - Wow! Funny and informative
***** Huckelberry Fin - Mark Twain - A great reader speaks this one - I had forgotton how funny Twain can be.
***** Freakonomics by Steven Levitt. An Economist shares interesting research results. A great listen with surprising results.
***** Hope and Honor by Sid Shachnow. What can I say? This is the story of LeeAnne's father's life. It is really good.
FOUR STAR
****Endurance - an amazing true story
****Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose - another great true story about Lewis and Clark
****Memoirs of a Geisha
**** The Colour of Magic and Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchet - very funny fantasy books.
**** A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. A very funny account of Bill's hiking adventure.
**** Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Life in a poor Irish family through a child's eyes.
A guilty pleasure. I wouldn't recomend this to a general audience but I really enjoyed it...
***Timeline - Michael Crichton
Several people have asked me if I can fit a whole audiobook on my iPod. Are you kidding? Yes. The amount you can fit depends on the compression and quality. I use Audible format 4 which I think is about 64kbps bit rate. Most books are from 6 to 10 hours of speech and are as much as 300MB of data. At that rate, my 30GB iPod can hold 90 books or more than a month of speech. Even the lowly shuffle that Audible gives away holds about 20 hours of speech.
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9:13:00 PM EST
Feeling Chillin'
Audiobook favorites
Here are my top favorites:
FIVE STAR
***** A Game of Thrones, Storm of Swords, Clash of Kings all by George AA Martin. These are simply the best Fantasy books. Listen to them in order. Hours and hours of a great story.
*****The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman - Wow! Funny and informative
***** Huckelberry Fin - Mark Twain - A great reader speaks this one - I had forgotton how funny Twain can be.
***** Freakonomics by Steven Levitt. An Economist shares interesting research results. A great listen with surprising results.
***** Hope and Honor by Sid Shachnow. What can I say? This is the story of LeeAnne's father's life. It is really good.
FOUR STAR
****Endurance - an amazing true story
****Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose - another great true story about Lewis and Clark
****Memoirs of a Geisha
**** The Colour of Magic and Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchet - very funny fantasy books.
**** A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. A very funny account of Bill's hiking adventure.
**** Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Life in a poor Irish family through a child's eyes.
A guilty pleasure. I wouldn't recomend this to a general audience but I really enjoyed it...
***Timeline - Michael Crichton
Several people have asked me if I can fit a whole audiobook on my iPod. Are you kidding? Yes. The amount you can fit depends on the compression and quality. I use Audible format 4 which I think is about 64kbps bit rate. Most books are from 6 to 10 hours of speech and are as much as 300MB of data. At that rate, my 30GB iPod can hold 90 books or more than a month of speech. Even the lowly shuffle that Audible gives away holds about 20 hours of speech.
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