Audio Books - What are you listening to?
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ive heard that hitler book is supposed to be good, ive still got the rise if the third reich to get through first.
Just bought I am cp30,
Rage, a book about Trump.
Might but the Bush AutoBiography to contrast Obama, did look at the Blair one, but thought again.
I find they focus my mind as well in these times..
Just bought I am cp30,
Rage, a book about Trump.
Might but the Bush AutoBiography to contrast Obama, did look at the Blair one, but thought again.
I find they focus my mind as well in these times..
IroningMan said:
Condor said:
RBdigital
No worries - there are essentially four service providers in the UK and Ireland: for my sins two of them are my responsibility and a third one used to be...With RBdigital your access to content is determined solely by which library you belong to: you can be physically located anywhere in the world but the app won't use your location to restrict what you can see and borrow or to determine whether you can read/listen to what you've downloaded.
It also won't default to downloading the titles you borrow, however, so if you don't enable 'auto-download' then it will only download enough to keep just in front of your place in the book, and it will only start to do this when you actually open each title: without 'auto-download' in effect it's just streaming - so could it be that although you had borrowed the books the app hadn't actually downloaded them?
Depending on how much use you make of it you may be interested to know that one of the things that's made my 2020 so entertaining has been the decision to sunset RBdigital and roll all its customer libraries worldwide onto the OverDrive platform and with it the Libby app - as of a year ago the two parent businesses share the same owner. The timing will depend on which library service you use, but the migration is already underway for eBooks and eAudio and the whole process is scheduled to be complete by the end of March.
Checked the FAQ's and no direct libby access to a kindle fire tablet - which is what I have.
Any ideas what I should try next - Ironing Man?
K12beano said:
The Spruce Goose said:
DoctorX said:
Getting my moneys worth from Audible with the complete Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry. At >70 hours, this may take some time but very enjoyable.
yes i go for long ones, seem great value.Nightlord series by garron whited love this series about a guy that gets turned into a vampire then goes to different planners gets a pet mountain and a bronze golum horse
The wife hates it as he goes into detail about land management and drainage
Seriously it's worth a try
The robin hobb books Fitz and the fool etc also great It's 5 different series that all tie in
The wife hates it as he goes into detail about land management and drainage
Seriously it's worth a try
The robin hobb books Fitz and the fool etc also great It's 5 different series that all tie in
Few recommendations from me - avowed audiobook lover here!
the Galaxy Outlaws series
Firefly/Serenity with a dose of magic. Some 90 odd hours of fun and frivolity, amazing character development and a arc progression that hits out of nowhere.
The Horus Heresy
Warhammer/Games Workshop epic space opera. Some 60 odd books...
Some incredible authors, and a universe that is both awful and compelling.
the Galaxy Outlaws series
Firefly/Serenity with a dose of magic. Some 90 odd hours of fun and frivolity, amazing character development and a arc progression that hits out of nowhere.
The Horus Heresy
Warhammer/Games Workshop epic space opera. Some 60 odd books...
Some incredible authors, and a universe that is both awful and compelling.
condor said:
IroningMan said:
Condor said:
RBdigital
No worries - there are essentially four service providers in the UK and Ireland: for my sins two of them are my responsibility and a third one used to be...With RBdigital your access to content is determined solely by which library you belong to: you can be physically located anywhere in the world but the app won't use your location to restrict what you can see and borrow or to determine whether you can read/listen to what you've downloaded.
It also won't default to downloading the titles you borrow, however, so if you don't enable 'auto-download' then it will only download enough to keep just in front of your place in the book, and it will only start to do this when you actually open each title: without 'auto-download' in effect it's just streaming - so could it be that although you had borrowed the books the app hadn't actually downloaded them?
Depending on how much use you make of it you may be interested to know that one of the things that's made my 2020 so entertaining has been the decision to sunset RBdigital and roll all its customer libraries worldwide onto the OverDrive platform and with it the Libby app - as of a year ago the two parent businesses share the same owner. The timing will depend on which library service you use, but the migration is already underway for eBooks and eAudio and the whole process is scheduled to be complete by the end of March.
Checked the FAQ's and no direct libby access to a kindle fire tablet - which is what I have.
Any ideas what I should try next - Ironing Man?
No Problem, thanks for replying 
I've sort of got it working, in some ways Overdrive is a lot easier than RBdigital to download straight to my kindle Fire - but is more difficult to navigate chapters when you have downloaded a book. Also to renew or return a title - there doesn't seem to be a useful help guide...unless I haven't found it. Libby doesn't seem to be involved at all it's just Overdrive that I seem to be using.
I've sort of got it working, in some ways Overdrive is a lot easier than RBdigital to download straight to my kindle Fire - but is more difficult to navigate chapters when you have downloaded a book. Also to renew or return a title - there doesn't seem to be a useful help guide...unless I haven't found it. Libby doesn't seem to be involved at all it's just Overdrive that I seem to be using.
Midway through Hail Mary, it's great. And learning lots about science whilst I'm at it. I couldn't get going with his second book, but this one takes everything I liked about Martian and turns it up to 11.
I would be interested in any suggestions for similarly educational novels, that deal with specialist knowledge of any kind with similar humour?
I would be interested in any suggestions for similarly educational novels, that deal with specialist knowledge of any kind with similar humour?
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