Posted in Audio Books, Science Fiction on April 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Years ago when I first started listening to audio books I felt there wasn’t much available in the way of great science fiction. Recorded Books did have a lot of good Sci-Fi titles, but they weren’t easy to get. This week I noticed many of those Recorded Books titles have come to Audible, and many [...]
Posted in Audio Books, DRM on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DRM (digital rights management also called copy protection) has been a big topic among music fans for years. It’s the software that tries to keep users from illegally copying songs from iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and other download services. The same technology is used for audio books that come from download sites like Audible.com, iTunes and [...]
Posted in Audio Books, Going Paperless, Kindle on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m starting to learn just what I’ve got myself into since I had the bright idea of Going Paperless. After I wrote that post I decided I’d focus on giving up newspapers and magazines and justified that the paper in books is different because books are meant to last and not be disposable. Going cold [...]
Posted in Audio Books on February 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love audio books. One of the first things I wanted to hear when I discovered audio books was stories by Robert A. Heinlein. And the first books I wanted to hear the most were all the Heinlein juveniles. I joined Audible.com at the beginning of 2002 and my first two monthly selections were The [...]
Posted in Audio Books, Science Fiction on January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The job of a science fiction author is mighty tough! To write a great science fiction story requires showing the reader something they’ve never seen before, and that ain’t easy. Age of the genre and reader are big factors here. When science fiction was young, “The Time Machine” by H. G. Wells dazzled the Victorian [...]
Posted in Audio Books, Science Fiction on December 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
”Fondly Fahrenheit” is a classic science fiction short story written by Alfred Bester who wrote two mega-masterpieces of science fiction, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. The Demolished Man shared the #1 spot on my Classics of Science Fiction list with Dune by Frank Herbert and More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, and [...]
Posted in Audio Books on December 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Back at the beginning of 2002, I joined Audible.com, signing up for their two books a month plan and getting a free Otis digital audio player. Audible.com sells audio books online and designed a system so their digital audio books worked with the emerging technology of digital audio players. This coincided with the rise of [...]
