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6453532 No.6453532 [Reply] [Original]

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT SO MUCH MONEY

LIKE HOLY SHIT I JUST WANT TO LISTEN TO A FUCKING BOOK OR SOMETHING

>> No.6453536

torrent them?

>> No.6453567

Can someone share Notes from Underground Garnett's traduction in pdf?
or P&V

>> No.6453639

Post your skype and I'll read to you for hours

>> No.6453649

>>6453532
tbh the membership plans aren't that bad, two credits for twenty a month goes pretty far depending on how much listening you're doing. i listen a ton because i drive a lot to school and work and rarely need to go past my allotted credits.

p.s. you also just missed a fifty percent off everything sale.

>> No.6453695

How can you people stand listening to audio books?

>> No.6453702

>>6453532
you illiterate or something?

>> No.6453736

>>6453649
Monthly plans also make it more likely that you'll listen to each book you buy rather than buy a million books you'll never listen too.

Much like your physical bookshelf after visiting a used book store, or your steam library after a sale, amiriet?

>> No.6453749

>>6453695
it's a way to use my daily commute to either school or work much more productive, especially because during the school year i lack the free time to read

>>6453736
very true. and i don't use either of those things :^)

>> No.6454134

>>6453702
I don't have time to read

>> No.6454157

>>6453695
I wish to connect with the old oral culture.

>> No.6454167

>>6453532
Yeah, I did a trial to listen to a book and was pretty shocked by the price.

>> No.6454174

What do you do while listening to audiobooks?

>> No.6454175

>>6453532
>not availing yourself of the 1000+ free lecture series and ebooks at http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

why.jpg

>> No.6454186

>>6454174
follow along with the text, what else?

>> No.6454202

>>6454174
Walk, drive, cook, ect. There are plenty of activities that don't interfere with the language parts of your brain, but would otherwise prevent you from holding a book or staring at a page.

Audiobooks are really the most efficient way to digest a book in terms of activity. It's also good if you have a tendency to skim and miss stuff.

Also, being read too is comfy as fuck.

>> No.6454203

>>6454174
Dual screen DOTA and Kill La Kill.

Pretty epic multitasking.

>> No.6454215

>>6454174
Literally anything that doesn't involve me talking or reading something else

>> No.6454219

>>6454202
but what if you have a tendency to drone out audio?! it seems like a nusience to have to rewind while driving or something.

>> No.6454232

>>6454174
browse 4chan

>> No.6454239

>>6454203
nice

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>>6453695
They're awesome. Just make sure it isn't read by a woman because 95% of the time, and I'm not being misogynistic, their voices are breathy and annoying without good punctual emphasis, if not downright distracting.

Audiobooks with STELLAR production I've been pumpin lately:
-necronomicon
-trial and death of socrates
-gravity's rainbow

Audiobooks that made me reconsider why I would even try and download free audiobooks
-edna st vincent millay's poems read by some breathy airy annoying woman, she literally whispers them ffffffuuuuuu
-most libra vox recordings
-the tractactus- seriously, I guess I'm at fault here for thinking that it'd be a good introduction to listen to this, but furthermore, the guy (libra vox public domain shit) literally reads out loud: CLOSE BRACKET, OPEN BRACKET, TWO DOT ONE DOT TWO THREE ONE DOT ZERO, SEMICOLON, OPEN CLOSE SEMICOLON
guys it was brutal, hold me

>>6454174
go for a walk, on my commute to school, walking around campus, travelling to work

>> No.6454259

>>6453702

Not that poster but reading during a highway commute makes no sense. Listening does. May was well make better use of the time than listening to music or talk radio.

>> No.6454264

>>6454174

Play 4x games or Warthunder.

>> No.6454265

>>6454259
>better use of the time than listening to music

But music is the superior art form.

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6454279

>Audiobook has voice acting and music

Based Star Wars books

>> No.6454287

>>6454174
Masturbate furiously, usually.

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6454303

>spent my audible credits for a subscription to Opie & Anthony

>> No.6454312

>>6454303
Can you get a refund since there's no Anthony?

>> No.6455066

The worst part of this trash for me is that its only one book a month. That is nowhere near enough for book lovers

>> No.6455139

>>6454279
This and Doctor Who audiobooks are god-tier.

>> No.6455936

>>6454174
Work
I honestly cant work anymore without something playing
I shit you not i got late fev times when i realized i forgot my player and had to turn back for it

>> No.6455941

>>6453532
Wait how much is it per book?

>> No.6455993

>>6455941
>>6453532
Juts checked Way of kings
65$ amerifat dollars

What the shit, i know i took probably 100h Of recording time, and another 100 for someone to clean up and edit that.
But 65$?
I mean come onnnnnn

>> No.6457631

>>6454174
I tried listening to it while boning my girlfriend, but she sayd there whas noo wheey.

>> No.6457637

I will invite to aaaarg anyone who will invite me to bibliotik

>> No.6457639

Can we agree that the GOAT audiobook is the Odyssey, read by Ian McKellan?

>> No.6457654

>>6454219
I thought that too when I first started listening to books, and there were times where I would have to do that, but very quickly you learn to concentrate and take it all in. I also try to pick my audiobooks carefully so that they're not the deepest most think-heavy books, those I save for paper. Vern, Kipling, Dickens, Dumas are all fantastic on audiobook, great recordings/readings, with gripping story.

>> No.6457680

>>6454279
That stuff is usually called radio drama

>> No.6457701

>>6453532
audiobookbay nugga

>> No.6457795

>>6454279
Are the Star Wars books any good? I wanted to take a look at them but I read WH40K novels and they are so hit and miss that I'm kind of afraid to even try star wars.

>> No.6457801

>>6457795
Like you said they are very hit and miss.

Most of the really good ones were recently declared not canon (If you care about that) but Star Wars: Tarkin is pretty good and canon.

The Thrawn Trillogy is fucking amazing but no longer canon

>> No.6457804

>>6457801
Yeah I don't give a shit about canon. I'll check those out, thanks!

>> No.6457956

>>6455139
>Doctor Who audiobooks
The big finish audio dramas are great. I usually listen to them while mowing the lawn or doing other menial tasks.

Audiobooks where someone just reads used to drive me nuts like some kind of reverse amsr. Also the fact that a lot of them are abridged is really annoying.

I just listened to a star wars one recently, I read all that shit when I was young so it was pure nostalgia.

>> No.6458451

Just use libravox you unwashed heathen.