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Ascend910@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I stopped going to the library to read physical books because I am too lazy to travel. I do read magazines and reseach papers off libgen tho
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I read way more ebooks than paper books. The convenience, portability, low light control, and text size manipulation are big wins with ebooks over paper. There’s also simply tons of ebooks available from public libraries.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m something of an audio book guy, so I can “read” while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
This is where I’ve ended up apart from the articles I read and the very very occasional ebook. The only issue I have is sometimes I can’t handle the narrators style or voice and so I can’t get into the book, even if I really want to.
Also if the book is set in Sydney, Australia maybe hire a local of the country to narrate it Amazon. FFS who wants to listen to a yank narrating an Australian character.
Tooden@aus.social 3 weeks ago
@maniacalmanicmania Kindle is as KindIe does. @captain_aggravated
TimePencil@infosec.exchange 3 weeks ago
@maniacalmanicmania
Yanks want to hear Australian characters being voiced by Yanks.
An Aussie character, voiced by an Aussie, will be heard as British by a Yank.
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Where do you get audiobooks? I’ve only once tried to listen to an audiobook since giving up on Audible (because Amazon is fucking evil, and somehow Audible manages to add on its own layer of evil on top of that of its parent company), and I ended up with a copy that seemed to just randomly skip large parts of the text. Not an abridged copy, it would just skip paragraphs at a time, with no way to keep up on the story. That was a copy through my library.
Nath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Ironically, your local library. If you don’t already have a membership, change that.
The ABC listen app also has some audiobooks.