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Audiobook Reading Challenge 2015 - 2016
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Dlw28
Posted 2015-12-04 10:23 PM (#12055 - in reply to #11670)
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I am psyched for this challenge! I'm a home visiting nurse practitioner and spend lots of time in the car, often going back and forth over the same roads. Not only can it get boring but some of the visits are difficult and I need to clear my mind and relax between seeing patients. My library just introduced Hoopla and I've downloaded two new books: Radiance by Valente and A Darker Shade of Magic by Swaab. A great way to save some of my audible credits for harder to find books.
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spectru
Posted 2015-12-05 10:40 AM (#12067 - in reply to #12055)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		My library has Overdrive, OneClickDigital, and Hoopla.  My preferred app is Overdrive.  One good thing about Hoopla, you don't have to wait for someone else to finish.  If Hoopla has the title, it's available.
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Posted 2015-12-05 12:36 PM (#12069 - in reply to #12067)
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spectru - 2015-12-05 10:40 AM My library has Overdrive, OneClickDigital, and Hoopla.  My preferred app is Overdrive.  One good thing about Hoopla, you don't have to wait for someone else to finish.  If Hoopla has the title, it's available.

I've been reading all my books through Audible.  I really need to visit my library to see what are my options.

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Badseedgirl
Posted 2015-12-05 7:17 PM (#12070 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Middle TN, USA		My Library has Overdrive, and I just love it. It allows my tiny local library to have access to the same books as the larger libraries. I listen to audiobooks exclusively through Overdrive.

I am currently listening to Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan and read by Todd McLaren. His voice is so smooth and resonant that I have stopped listening to the book at night because it puts me right to sleep. I do fine in the car or if I am doing housework, but as soon as I sit down my head starts to droop. And no, its not the story because I am in love with the plot. It's Mr. McLaren's dulcet tones.
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devilinlaw
Posted 2015-12-08 3:51 PM (#12114 - in reply to #12067)
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spectru - 2015-12-05 8:40 AM

My library has Overdrive, OneClickDigital, and Hoopla. My preferred app is Overdrive. One good thing about Hoopla, you don't have to wait for someone else to finish. If Hoopla has the title, it's available.


Hoopla and Overdrive are the two apps I use for most of my audiobook listening, although I have also had to get a number of physical disc sets from the library for lack of digital options. Hoopla does not have the waiting periods like Overdrive, which is nice, but I find the Overdrive app more user friendly.

My list for this challenge will probably fluctuate a lot over the course of the challenge since I listen to about 80% of the books I "read."
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Posted 2015-12-17 7:48 AM (#12152 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Middle TN, USA		I just finished Armada by Ernest Cline and read by Wil Wheaton, although the book was just so-so Wil Wheaton was pretty darn great. He is a huge gaming and scfi fan and the only more appropriate narrator would have been Chris Hardwick. I would listen to more narrated by Wil Wheaton.
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spectru
Posted 2015-12-19 12:11 PM (#12158 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		I agree with your assessment of Armada and Wil Wheaton's reading of it. Wheaton also read Ready Player One by Cline. Unfamiliar with Chris Hardwick.
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Posted 2015-12-19 8:15 PM (#12161 - in reply to #12158)
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spectru - 2015-12-19 12:11 PM

I agree with your assessment of Armada and Wil Wheaton's reading of it. Wheaton also read Ready Player One by Cline. Unfamiliar with Chris Hardwick.


I heard very good things about Mr. Wheaton's reading of Ready Player One, that was one of the reasons I wanted to listen to Armada. Chris Hardwick hosts @Midnight, a comedy show on Comedy Central, he also hosts "Talking Dead" the post Walking Dead recap show on AMC, and is CEO of Nerdist Industries, and hosts "The Nerdist" Podcast. Basically he is a super nerd authority, and very funny by the way.
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devilinlaw
Posted 2015-12-26 4:05 PM (#12192 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Las Vegas, NV		Hardwick also starred in "House of 1000 Corpses," Rob Zombie's directorial debut, along with Rainn Wilson. I listened to Ready Player One and loved it! Armada was okay but Wheaton killed it. He's narrated a number of John Scalzi audiobooks, too, including Redshirts and Fuzzy Nation.
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spectru
Posted 2015-12-26 9:55 PM (#12197 - in reply to #12192)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys is a lighthearted story with a supernatural bent, a fun read. Fat Charlie, the main character, is more or less the same character as the protagonaist in Gaiman's Neverwhere.

British actor and comedian Lenny Henry does a terrific Job narrating the audio book. I expect that anything by Henry would be worth hearing.
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spectru
Posted 2016-01-16 3:00 PM (#12416 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		I've recently become infatuated with Robert Silverberg; started he Lord Valentines castle this morning. It puts me in mind of Ursula K Le Guin's writing. Except that Le Guin's books are usually fairly short, a lot of them novellas; this is pretty long at 19.5 hours. Stefan Rudnicki is doing a great job, as usual, with the narration. So far, I'm enjoying it
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TheLegendarium
Posted 2016-01-18 12:41 PM (#12420 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT		This fits in quite nicely for me. We're doing the Brandon Sanderson challenge this year, and I've already got plans to do a few of the books in audio format. Thanks for putting up the challenge!
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Dlw28
Posted 2016-01-18 7:06 PM (#12425 - in reply to #11670)
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I recently finished Planetfall read by the author Emma Newman, who is also a professional narrator. The story and reading are well worth listening too.

I'm also a big fan of CJ Cheeryh's Foreigner series whose narrator Daniel Thomas May is excellent. Ditto Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Diving Universe series read by Jennifer Van Dyck. Rusch's stories might be less sophisticated but are lots of fun. Ditto also for the Expanse series read by Jefferson Mayes. If you are watching the TV show you might find, as I have, that they are similar but different enough that neither is spoiled by the other.
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Posted 2016-01-18 7:11 PM (#12426 - in reply to #11670)
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On the other hand I'm currently listening to Corsair by Cambias and it's a pretty thin story. Disappointing as I really loved his The Darkling Sea. Not loving the narrator Victor Bevine. He's not terrible but I can't tell if I might like him better reading a different book.
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ManyMoons
Posted 2016-01-25 9:07 PM (#12496 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: suburb of Minneapolis, MN		This challenge will give me the impetus to listen to some of the books I bought back in 2010 and 2011! Yes, I have LOTS of Audible books and want to make sure I listen to all of them. So, I listed only those books from those years.
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spectru
Posted 2016-01-27 11:11 AM (#12506 - in reply to #11670)
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The audio book of Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle is read by master narrator Stefan Rudnicki. There are songs in the story, as I imagine minstrel songs of the Elizabethan era. Rudnicki does, I'm sure, a better job at singing them than I could, but singing is clearly not what makes him such a great reader.

- An enjoyable, entertaining read.


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Emil
Posted 2016-02-03 10:47 AM (#12581 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		I've finished Seveneves and found it an excellent book. Obviously Mary Robinette Kowal does a brilliant job with the narration, or at least for the first two parts of the novel. Part 3 is narrated by Will Damron, which in the end does not compare very well with the preceding parts. No fault of Damron, but Stephenson's excessive descriptive storytelling. I think if I had to read the book, my eyelids would have succumb to gravity. Nonetheless, despite that, I'm totally taken in by the book. Scientifically sound.
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spectru
Posted 2016-02-04 9:17 PM (#12592 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		With Delany's Babel-17 read by Stefan Rudnicki I've completed the challenge.
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2016-02-05 2:20 PM (#12597 - in reply to #11670)
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Audiobooks aren't really my thing, but I just stumbled across LibriVox, which is a source for public domain works read by volunteers.  Look at all the Lord Dunsany they have - wow!
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Posted 2016-02-12 1:44 PM (#12663 - in reply to #12592)
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spectru - 2016-02-05 5:17 PM

With Delany's Babel-17 read by Stefan Rudnicki I've completed the challenge.


Awesome! Well done! For the next round we will need to expand the reading levels
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Emil
Posted 2016-02-12 1:46 PM (#12664 - in reply to #12597)
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Engelbrecht - 2016-02-06 10:20 AM

Audiobooks aren't really my thing, but I just stumbled across LibriVox, which is a source for public domain works read by volunteers. Look at all the Lord Dunsany they have - wow!


Yes, a great resource. But often amateurish compared the financially backed professional counterparts. I did find a few gems, though. The Barsoom series, for one. E.M.Foster. Some of the Lord Dunsany's were - sadly - a real trudge!
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Posted 2016-02-19 8:20 PM (#12763 - in reply to #11670)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		I just discovered AdioPhile. Seems like a useful resource for those of us who enjoy audio books, so I thought I'd share.

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/

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juliael71
Posted 2016-02-20 3:20 PM (#12774 - in reply to #12763)
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My library has Overdrive and Hoopla, along with the physical cd collection. I do like Hoopla because of the lack of wait time and wider selection, but dislike needing to stream them. Usable at home where I have a stable wifi, but not necessarily elsewhere.

During the summer, keep an eye on the Audiobooksynch program. They offer free copies of audiobooks, usually a mix of classic and YA titles. Sometimes there will be a sf/fantasy title in the mix.
http://www.audiobooksync.com/
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spectru
Posted 2016-02-20 4:19 PM (#12779 - in reply to #12774)
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juliael71 - 2016-02-20 4:20 PM My library has Overdrive and Hoopla, along with the physical cd collection. I do like Hoopla because of the lack of wait time and wider selection, but dislike needing to stream them. Usable at home where I have a stable wifi, but not necessarily elsewhere. During the summer, keep an eye on the Audiobooksynch program. They offer free copies of audiobooks, usually a mix of classic and YA titles. Sometimes there will be a sf/fantasy title in the mix. http://www.audiobooksync.com/

 

I learned that you can download books with Hoopla.  You don't have to stream them.  At least, downloading is possible with my library, with an iPhone. 

After you borrow the book, on your phone scroll down below the play button.  It says "Download to device."

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juliael71
Posted 2016-02-20 5:43 PM (#12781 - in reply to #11670)
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At least with my Android phone, I could download, but it'd be a local copy. So if I exited out of Hoopla and come back I'd have to do it all over again. I haven't tried it on the Fire yet to see if it's the same.
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