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 Post subject: You can't listen to all those AUDIO BOOKS
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:17 am 
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Back when I was commuting upwards of four+ hours a day (round trip), I listened to a lot of audio books. This was pre-iPod, so they were an especially welcome part of my daily life.

Then I got an iPod, and switched jobs, and now I have a very short drive to work (20 minutes) and podcasts and so on. Yet I've also downloaded a slew of audio books. Loads of them. History books, college lectures, novels I've intended to read, classics, and more.

But who has the time for all of them? Not I. I am currently listening to John Keegan's "A History of Warfare." Keegan is an excellent war historian, wrote probably the best book on the First World War, but yeesh, 16 discs of material will take forever to get through.

And then there are dozens more sitting on a hard drive. Unlistened. Unloved.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:54 am 
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Employ special Databurstâ„¢ technology to compress the data and then infuse your brain with it all in seconds.

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 Post subject: You can't listen to all those AUDIO BOOKS
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:55 am 
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Or, give up sleep.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:56 am 
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Beachy wrote:
Employ special Databurstâ„¢ technology to compress the data and then infuse your brain with it all in seconds.


Similar technology didn't work out so well with the blipverts in the Max Headroom pilot episode.

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 Post subject: You can't listen to all those AUDIO BOOKS
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:13 pm 
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Well, then, it just needs to iron out the minor problems first.
But soon you'll be able to listen to all your CDs in twenty minutes.










Well, maybe not all of YOURS, but all of most people's.

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 Post subject: You can't listen to all those AUDIO BOOKS
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:15 pm 
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I do play them on fast forward. Gets past all of the mucking about in the middle faster that way.

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 Post subject: You can't listen to all those AUDIO BOOKS
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:17 pm 
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Beachy wrote:
Employ special Databurstâ„¢ technology to compress the data and then infuse your brain with it all in seconds.

I would enjoy this technology. If I could just inject my head with knowledge, I'm sure I'd become addicted to the process.


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