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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoI’m something of an audio book guy, so I can “read” while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.
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.
@maniacalmanicmania Kindle is as KindIe does. @captain_aggravated
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.
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Damn Americans
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months 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 7 months ago
Ironically, your local library. If you don’t already have a membership, change that.
The ABC listen app also has some audiobooks.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Yeah as I said, I have already used my local library’s audiobook service. I probably just happened to grab the one book that they had a dud copy of or something.