Books on disk
We listen to Audible books as we travel cross country. So we had a CD player in our F350. However that spontaneously combusted and the truck we are looking at a 2018 RAM 2500 does not have a CD player...
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valhalla360 wrote:fj12ryder wrote:valhalla360 wrote:An epub file may be small, but an actual audiobook is not. Easily 300-400 meg per book, and some books will be over a gig.toedtoes wrote:
Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
An epub file is pretty small. If that eats up the last of your data on the phone, you already need to clean things up.
But if you just want to be obstinate about it, get a $25 burner phone to leave in the truck as your book reader.
One of the reasons we like the epub with a reader app over a giant audio file.
Of course, it's probably like the guy who goes on about 4k definition on a 25inch TV over 1080. A human actually reading it does add a little but generally very little.
Actually in a lot of cases, a "human" reading and enunciating every word correctly adding emphasis at the proper places can and does make a big difference.. The emphasis brings the words to life a lot like punctuation can change the meaning.
Sort of like..
Let's eat Grandpa
Let's eat, Grandpa
Computer generated voices while they have substantially improved just are not able to make the words written on a page come to life as the author of the book intended.. Sometimes the computer generated voice stumbles and cannot pronounce a word, name, city and resorts to saying each letter until the next word.
NOAA radio broadcasts are a fine example of this, they replaced real humans reading and recording the forecast and weather info some 20 yrs ago.. There still are local towns and cities to me that are mispronounced to this day..
