Tag: AUDIOBOOKS

Falling asleep to music, podcasts, audio books, or online radio can be very pleasant, but what's not so pleasant is waking up in the middle of the night with audio still playing. If you fall asleep listening to iTunes on your Mac, Lifehacker suggests checking out an AppleScript called iTunes Sleep Timer that will automatically stop playback in iTunes after a pre-set amount of time. Don't worry if ...

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and my queue of things to listen seems to be growing constantly; I can never catch up. What's frustrating about this is that most people talk too slowly on podcasts. To be fair, they are speaking at a reasonable conversational pace, but when you are simply listening to a conversation rather than taking part in it, you can take it all in at a much faster pace. While ...

The latest version of Amazon's ebook reader, the Kindle 2, has been attracting plenty of positive attention for its slimline form, style and functionality but has also drawn criticism from an unexpected quarter - from Authors Guild President and humorist, Roy Blount Jr, who isn't amused about the Kindle's new text to speech functionality. The Kindle 2 has a function that allows published works ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/31/amazon-buys-audible-com/"; Amazon has entered into an agreement to buy digital audiobook service Audible.com. The deal is valued at $300 million, and allows Amazon to dramatically expand its digital audio offerings. While Amazon already offers millions of MP3 songs for download, Audible is probably the biggest name in digital audiobooks, ...

Like downloading audiobooks, but don't like being told how to listen to them? Up until now, the biggest names in downloadable audiobooks have been Audible and iTunes. Now online music site eMusic has announced it will get into the game. Unlike books purchased from Audible/iTunes, anything you buy from eMusic will be DRM-free. Want to listen to it on any computer or portable media player? No ...

LibriVox is one of those ambitious projects that is just such a great idea, you hope that it will continue forever. What they’re trying to do is get as many public domain books (books whose copyrights have expired) recorded as audiobooks in MP3 and OGG Vorbis formats for free download. They have lofty goals: “Our goal is to record all the books in the public domain.” It’s ...