[CRAZY IDEA] Really Really Cheap+Light Books

[Machete234]

why does everyone think voice book = ebook here?

buy a damn voice book... all you need is mp3 player for it.

I dont like them because they dont stop when I dont pay attention.

[SinbadEV]

why does everyone think voice book = ebook here?

buy a damn voice book... all you need is mp3 player for it.

I dont like them because they dont stop when I dont pay attention.

I think that's what I've been trying to say.

[Machete234]

I dont really mind carrying a ~1kg book with me.
Recently I carry the first band of dune with me in the hard cover version.

There are only a few ebook readers and they all have some drawbacks.
And generally people dont read as much anymore and the book stores are full of fantasy shit and vampire stories.
I dont think books have such a bright future.

A lot of people still read... maybe you live in some kind of cultural wasteland.

Bookstores full of fantasy shit, harry potter twilight etc did you read that?
Covers that scream "Im a cheap whore of a book buy me!"
Covers with bloody roses on it that say "the rose murderer"
And that is the mainstream of books.

why does everyone think voice book = ebook here?

buy a damn voice book... all you need is mp3 player for it.

I dont like them because they dont stop when I dont pay attention.

I dont know I shut off at some time, when reading a book this is reading slower, stopping for a while, sleep for a few seconds and continue reading.
In an audiobook this goes an and on at the same speed and I stop paying attention, then when I realise I missed a minute I have to rewind.

[KaiserJ]

the only audiobook i ever tried was a horrible experience (came preloaded onto my mp3 player) because the narrator kept changing his voice when someone spoke and it sounded awful.

related : i think in my country audiobooks are available for free for the vision impaired... i know you can get textbooks and stuff like this, and i considered getting some when i had a test to study for but had to go to work

[TradeMark]

the only audiobook i ever tried was a horrible experience (came preloaded onto my mp3 player) because the narrator kept changing his voice when someone spoke and it sounded awful.

rofl, i can imagine :d

i was thinking if they could make the audiobooks more like movies; many "actors" speaking the voices... it indeed can sound lame if only one guy reads it...

[SinbadEV]

Bookstores full of fantasy shit, harry potter twilight etc did you read that?
Covers that scream "Im a cheap whore of a book buy me!"
Covers with bloody roses on it that say "the rose murderer"
And that is the mainstream of books.

Oh, I understand, you're one of those elitist hipsters who doesn't think anything good could have been written since "Catcher in the Rye" (Which wasn't all that incredible BTW... so a 14 year old ditches school, hires a prostitute and hangs out with homosexuals... WHOOPDEEDOO!)... I happen to have read and enjoyed (to a certain degree), the harry potters, the twilights, the "true blood" , the "girl who bleeped the bleep" and a number of other books you would probably just assume are dumb... I bet you don't even listen to Ke$ha.

[KDR_11k]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclam

[1v0ry_k1ng]

kindle e-reader > Really Really Cheap+Light Books

[MidKnight]

So, Sinbad: are you going to keep debating the benefits and downsides of your idea, or are you going to actually take steps toward making it a reality (at least on a small scale)?

[TradeMark]

i bet not (he has spammed many similar threads before and never done anything forward them...)

[Machete234]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclam

We had to read them at school they suck.
But its more the content of the book than the size.

Bookstores full of fantasy shit, harry potter twilight etc did you read that?
Covers that scream "Im a cheap whore of a book buy me!"
Covers with bloody roses on it that say "the rose murderer"
And that is the mainstream of books.

Oh, I understand, you're one of those elitist hipsters who doesn't think anything good could have been written since "Catcher in the Rye" ....

Yes and youre a phoney.

I bet you don't even listen to Ke$ha.

Who?

the only audiobook i ever tried was a horrible experience (came preloaded onto my mp3 player) because the narrator kept changing his voice when someone spoke and it sounded awful.

Yes I had one where the narrator goes higher in voice for females, it was really annyoing.

[Panda]

I like audio books and print books as long as the reader of the audio book does a good job of telling the story. This may partially be because I've always enjoyed being read to. I listened to the audio book, "The Secret Garden" on CD and it sounded great! I remember one of my teachers reading "A Wrinkle In Time" to me at school when I was little and I really liked listening to her read that too!

I don't generally tend to fall asleep or get bored with reading unless I'm very tired or reading something really dry that doesn't have much in the way of elaborate descriptions. I am especially fond of elaborate descriptions in books because I think that the story can sound watered down without them. I even think that numbers can be interesting to read about. However, I do get distracted from time to time and am often too busy to read more than I already do.