I believe iTunes has some audiobooks.
I'm not sure that Audible supports Macs/iPods either. Truly it is damn annoying.
Xander ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I believe iTunes has some audiobooks.
I'm not sure that Audible supports Macs/iPods either. Truly it is damn annoying.
They have some gizmos that are iTunes/iPod related, but I'm way too out of it right now to make head or tail of it.
ita, what format are the downloads? Are they mp3s? Could they be converted?
I believe iTunes has some audiobooks.
They're hella expensive, though.
what format are the downloads? Are they mp3s? Could they be converted?
They have an actual console application that manages the playing, and it uses Windows Media player -- with all the expiration and stuff, it looks like a fussy hack, and I might as well borrow CDs, rip, listen and delete at that point.
I wonder if Apple has any intention of licensing their DRM...I guess not--but some expirable stuff on my iPod would be great.
I just checked out my local library, and it looks like they use the same system. Fairly unhelpful, really.
What was your overall impression, Hil? I was surprised by how sensible I found it-- I went in ready to point and mock, but came out with the feeling that he'd taken a relatively balanced and honest approach, and now I'm not sure if that was because it was balanced, or because it was well written and had lots of maths.
Next up: either I Capture the Castle or an annotated edition of Ring Lardner Jr. stories. (Now there is a book whose time came and went!)
Casting my vote for I Capture the Castle. Loved it. Might be time to reread, in fact.
What was your overall impression, Hil? I was surprised by how sensible I found it-- I went in ready to point and mock, but came out with the feeling that he'd taken a relatively balanced and honest approach, and now I'm not sure if that was because it was balanced, or because it was well written and had lots of maths.
I did find if fairly balanced, but I found myself wanting to ask, "Yes, but...?" a whole lot. I bought it after I'd gone to see the author speak (he was speaking at a science bookstore near my university, and I went with a bunch of other people from the math department), and his talk didn't convince me much, but I found his argument in the book interesting.
I just finished listening to Chocky.
I'd read this a long time ago when I was little, so remembered the basic outline.
What stood out to me as an adult was the supreme reasonabless of some of the adults. Not only does his father indulge the strange story, he believes it. Sure, we need conflict, so ma freaks a bit, and there are bad humans, but still. The kid is honest with his parents, and that's rewarded before things go south.