Holy crap that audio peaking in the Alice in wonderland clip… Please normalize ;_; Or decrease the gain… or move back from the mic, or you know, talk quieter so the fancy light thingy doesn’t flash into red every time you say a sound
@awk@Nexar I was wondering if the first sample was that bad on purpose.
Also was surprised when the text told me to “listen to the second half”. How did you know that I stopped listening to that racket early, meh description? How did you know?
It’s prob not that bad on purpose. Librivox audiobooks are recorded by a variety of volunteer untrained narrators using home equipment (usually smartphone).
Sometimes it is much much worse. Some people have terrible accents or can’t enunciate. Or they naturally read in a way as to cause instant brain death.
Or you can hear the cat or kid or family fight or TV in the background.
I salute them for doing it. But sometimes it is completely unlistenable.
@f00l Try a search on Amazon for books with Audible Audio edition, then sort from low to high - there are hundreds, all professionally done. Also a lot of chances to learn foreign languages.
@f00l I came here to say that this sounds like something you would be interested in but knowing you you already have read most if not all of what’s on the drive. And here you are
@f00l Probably a completely stupid question but I can’t seem to find the info here so maybe you can help. If I got this to play in the truck for my two year old granddaughter, how would I play it for her, preferably play it with headphones or something…lol. TIA.
Play it thru your truck speakers (depends on what kinda connection options you have in the truck:. Cassette? Aux in? USB in?
Put them on a device. (android will be way easiest but they can be gotten into an iPod or iPhone or sansa or whatever. Method varies by device).
Get her some headphones and a battery charger for the drive and let let play them.
If you want to go the headphone route, and you want her to have Bluetooth with full controls, I regiment a refurbished LG Tone. About $20-30 at Amazon or Newegg.
Don’t buy a knockoff. Get one made by LG.
If you want, I can get you links to the real deal (LG headsets) later tonite. (not home yet).
PS the device does not have to be activated. B get a uses unactivated android phone. Don’t activate. Just set it up. It ought you work fine.
@f00l Thanks, I knew you’d know! I basically have a broken CD player in my truck and she’s not going near my iPhone 7. I did get her one of those Fire kids tablets for Christmas, but it won’t play it I don’t think. On the other hand, it has a bunch of kids stuff on it and may have better sounding audio books. Decisions, decisions. If it was 5$-10$ I’d get it and worry about how to play it and what it sounds like later. I’m not sure if shell continue to listen if it doesn’t sound good. Of course I’m not a fan of audio books so my bias may be showing.
I have not yet looked into the sound quality or otherwise looked into this.
Without having looked into this offering at all I bet these would play in a fire tablet. Bluetooth headsets will work fine with a fire tablet.
The easiest is an Android phone. An old one. Unactivated, obviously. Easier for portable user. A tablet is more for sitting down with. At bed or desk or table or couch.
Craigslist or something. Get an old s3 or s4 or similar. Wipe it. Put a decent impact glass screen protector on it. Also a really decent case that doesn’t cost too much.
Get whatever app you need for playing these (have not checked)
Then get headphones.
If your truck has a cassette player or a USB port or an aux in you can do it that way. If your truck has Bluetooth you can do it that way
You can do this for free (android phone, iOS phone, prob fire tablet) with just a library card. Instant download and play.
Visit the library ones to find out how to get started. Or check their web site.
@mehbee I don’t think Fire tablets support USB OTG, but you should be able to side load the books using a computer and USB cable if there’s enough memory in the tablet.
@SSteve Thanks for sharing the link to the Standard Ebooks site! Here I have been doing this myself (grabbing text from Gutenberg, cleaning it up, and then PDFing it) and this site has already done it all. I have been reading about how to publish on Standard Ebooks - very cool. I am going to try it, since I do it anyway and it would be great to share with others. Right now I share the ones I create with my kids - much to their dismay. Perhaps some day they will appreciate the classics! Thanks again!
Thanks! I think I have downloaded all the free classics for Kindle (at least at one time I must have had most of them). Some were okay, but a lot were just awful. The way I got into “editing” them myself was for my kids; I have a pact with them that I will read (or re-read) every classic that they read. So I wouldn’t have to buy several copies of the books, I would grab it from Gutenberg, edit it, add TOC, page numbers, etc., then PDF it and sent it to them. The theory was then we could all read “together.” So far, I think I am very far in the lead…
Customer reviews on Amazon for free Kindle books usually include write a bit of scathing commentary if the formatting of the book is bad, or if that particular edition is full of errors and typos or whatever.
At least I’ve seen many such reviews. Usually among those voted “top” or “most helpful”.
As for costumer reviews: Beyond my pay grade. Stagehands would know better than I.
@kathyl I’m glad you are excited about Standard Ebooks. I really hope it hits critical mass and becomes mainstream. In order to contribute a book it helps if you know how to use GitHub. If not, there are probably people on the Standard Ebooks forum who can help you. You’ll want to go there first anyway to tell them what you want to work on and make sure it’s a fit for the project.
Good evening/night/morning everyone! Nic here from the e-GO! Library.
Jazzed for our first Meh. These have gone over quite nicely via other sites, so hope you’ll enjoy too.
As there’s always a few common questions, I thought I’d jump in with this info ahead of time. Here goes…
1] DEEP DISCOUNT
The reason Meh is offering such a discount is that these are encased in our older packaging which is now being updated (the pics on Amazon are also of the old packaging) but the actual USB drives and ALL included AudioBooks are and will still be the exact same.
These are all in MP3. If any techies out thee prefer the M4B format, shoot us an email via eGoLIbrary.com after your purchase and we’ll send you a download link to the M4B format.
The books vary greatly in length. On the 550 model, some are multi-day epics like the Count of Monte Cristo, while some are very short. Overall there is roughly 2,000 hours of listening so there’s plenty for a long, long time.
All books are Classics. And while some of these titles can be found on sites like Librivox, the quality tends to be worlds apart. Librivox recording are often done by volunteers (it can be anyone…you, me, anyone) with any device (so usually their phones for example). Furthermore, often Librivox books are pieced together from many separate volunteer recordings. All our AudioBooks were recorded by our team in studios using professional actors (narrators) for high quality sound (samples above). I am by no means trying to knock Librivox- it is an amazing site and I too love it, but there are substantial differences here. So for a few pennies per book, many think it’s worth it.
5] IPAD/IPHONE, ANDROID
The USB drives are dual-ended with a regular USB end plus a Micro-USB end. The Micro-USB fits well in most Android devices so books can be enjoyed directly that way. If you have an iPhone or iPad you typically would first need to transfer the books to your computer then sync to your device. However, we recently launched a new BONUS APPLE APP – so if you buy one of these, and send us a message with your invoice #, we’ll send you a gift code to unlock the Apple APP. That way you don’t have to transfer anything. You can just pull all the books directly off the app itself.
I think that’s about it for now. Off to get my beauty sleep, but I’ll be back in the morning to help answer any questions.
@Ppublishers Fuck yeah. App. Thanks. This will make work commutes much more enjoyable. My ORDER # restless-tense-bagel … How do I message this to you in order to attain my app code?
@Ppublishers Hi Nic! Could you tell me if there are any audiobooks on the kids’ version that aren’t on the adult version? Also, does the adult version include any bonus ebooks like the kids’?
@grammar_geek - All the book on the Kids are on the full 550 version. And no, the 550 doesn’t have any bonus books. Actually it doesn’t have any space left. Nearly all of the 32GB usable space was taken by the AudioBooks themselves. Thanks!
@OldCatLady Right now we have 4 models of the “e-GO! Library” - the 2 Audiobook models on sale here plus a 1,000 eBook (for reading) model + a Spanish collection as well. They can all be seen here: https://www.egolibrary.com/ - thanks!
@rjquillin Many thanks for the warm welcome! If you or anyone needs anything after the sale expires and I retreat to whatever it is i usually do at work, please reach out to us at: https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
We’re here to help anytime! (Well 9-5, M-F, and not holidays) but seriously - we do our best to help so reach out anytime.Thanks!
@Ppublishers Thanks for the prompt reply! I’m glad to hear there’s no room left on the drive, it makes me feel that I’m getting an even better deal! Also, I must confess, part of why I’m buying this is for the cool 32gb drive I can just plug right in to my phone.
@grammar_geek You have an Android phone? The micro-usb will plug right into nearly all Android phones. If you have an iPhone you would first need to transfer to iTunes on your computer, then sync your iphone OR…contact at us eGoLibrary.com and I’ll send you a code to unlock our iPhone app which makes life a heck of a lot easier Thanks!
It’s about a random bicycle tour of Germany, and was published in 1900.
And along the way they make a number of humorous observations about the German attitudes and culture of that time period. Which are scary and tragic to read in retrospect … since … Events.
So reading that book is a very different experience, seen through modem eyes.
I just had a search of the help tickets and didn’t see any that might be you (hard to tell though without your email and real name though I took a good guess
Mind re-sending one right asap and letting me know - i’ll look for it and reply right away - these are unique codes so don’t want to post publicly - thanks!
@Thumperchick The whole description should’ve been in audio format, with dramatic reading by trained voice actors. You guys really dropped the ball here.
@AttyVette You have your shows crossed. “Book 'em Dano” was Hawaii Five-O. Dragnet had "This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I’m a cop. " and “Just the facts. ma’am.”
@yakkoTDI Happens. Also from Dragnet, “Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.” I always loved that opening - made me believe that someone actually was innocent. That changed.
@Jonas4321 Whenever someone mentions Dragnet, I think of this. My dad had an album called “Comedy Caravan” and this was on it. I listened to this a zillion times when I was growing up.
@Kidsandliz I think of them as free bonus words. Like, here you’ve got all the words in Moby Dick, plus all these extra ones you can use to create some very cerebral poetry on the side.
The description implies they aren’t Librivox buy are read by professionals.
I have a love/hate relationship with Librivox. I like having free audio books, and dime readings are good, but some are, for me, unlistenable, either because of the equality if the recording or just the voice of the reader.
A trick I learned for public domain books is to buy the Kindle version fit a dollar and then “upgrade” to the Audible version for anywhere from one to for dollars. It’s a lot cheaper than just buying the Audible version alone.
I’ll go read the Amazon reviews if this, if they exist.
@craigthom Good point about buying classics and upgrading them @Audible. I wish they hadn’t recently bumped the price of most Audible companions from $2 or $3 to $7.50.
@craigthom i was wondering if you were having some type of seizure. I just looked up the Swype site and there was even an error in describing it. No fancy stuff for me, just old fashioned typing.
@f00l They go on sale from time to time. In December 2015 I picked up a bunch of them for $0.99. I bought the Kindle and Audible books for a buck each. Sweet deal.
And the sync is handy for switching between tablet, car, and phone throughout the day.
@f00l Yeah, they increased the pricing for Audible matching about 6 weeks ago. Google “Amazon Audible matchmaker” and the first link should give you a list of books you own that are eligible for upgrade. Most are now $7.49, which might make this a better deal than I had thought, tho the voice quality isn’t Stephen Fry or James Marsters.
@growyoungagain I usually proofread to catch the Swype errors, but I guess I didn’t this time.
Even with the errors it’s easier for me than typing on my phone. The one thing I don’t like is that the more often I let the wrong word pass the more likely it is to think that’s the right word. Still, Swype and proofreading on my phone is faster than fat-fingering the virtual keyboard and proofreading.
I prefer typing on a real keyboard, but that’s another story.
@f00l Most of the classic books are free, with cheap audiobook versions. Amazon has only increased the price of Audible matches of kindle books you own, for now. If you want a heads up on deals, track the Amazon discussion “Kindle / Audible Recommendations and Deals.”
It looks like most, if not all, of the kids’ titles are also in the adult library. There are also a lot of short stories and poems in there, but I still think it’s worth it.
@f00l It looks like the kids’ library includes 75 bonus ebooks that aren’t on the adult version; but they’re ebooks, so you can probably find them all on Project Gutenberg.
@OldCatLady oh I was joking, I never really thought it was you. I just followed the product link to Amazon. I’ll post the link later when I get to my computer
@QuietDelusions High school, I read both Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness. I sincerely believe I was the only one in my class that actually read Moby Dick instead of using the Cliffs Notes.
@QuietDelusions I haven’t gotten around to Moby Dick, either but check this out. It’s free, and you can listen to it from a variety of sources or just download it.
Each chapter is read by a different person, including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Sir David Attenborough, and dozens more.
I haven’t listened to it, but I will. Eventually. And I will watch Solaris. Some day.
But cool. I’ve had that attitude myself : not as summer global judgement about a book - just about the what I was getting for the level of my personal investment, and that I did not wish to invest more.
Sweet. Im an audiobook addict. My library’s selection (including the classics) is running its course, almost all titles worth it are in my history. Depending on length, i can go through two or three a weekend (while im working). But, at the same time…I have never paid for an audiobook…should i start now, with this selection? Mind you, i did have a scribd subscription for a month or two, so i have paid to listen…
If you start paying for audiobooks and you are a true addict, then it kinda gets to be like a fentanyl habit. You gotta have more.
But do it anyway.
Or … Hints:
Some really large public libraries allow people who don’t live there to subscribe. If you can get a library card from a huge library, you get a bigger catalog.
Also:. Your library can get just about anything on cd or sometimes on cassette from the Interlibrary Loan service You might have to wait a while, but they will get it.
No instant downloads. But … I presume you know how to get the content onto your device. And still free.
@f00l Free Library of Philadelphia is a good one to have a card for as they have a huge selection of audiobooks. For that you need to either be a resident of PA or pay $50 for an out of state card.
@f00l
ive considered paying for a membership to portland/multnomah library…180 bucks for the family for a year. I also have family in the bay area, and tidewater, and cleveland, and…just havent reached a breaking point with deschutes library yet.
Also, i love the whirring sound of all those discs going at once. Longest so far was Anathem…28 discs. Moby Dick second with 18. But thats just discs…
I have also dabbled with text to speech using various means. My favorite TTS was “The Sun Also Rises.”
Have done plenty of TTS when there was no decent audiobook and I didn’t want to sit down and read the book for whatever reason.
Amazon’s TTS engine that gets used on Kindle book is a good one. The void is nice and the reading is surprisingly good.
You can do this with old kindles (the ones with audio capacities) but the easiest way is with a fire tablet or a fire phone and a decent headset. (I own fire phones (eBay) that get used only for this).
I think the BN nook app will do TTS.
Some of the other e-book apps will do it.
So for amazon wins on voice for me, bit I have not really done a comparison.
First, it’s not really 550 audiobooks, if you count an audio book as an audio version of a book you’d get from the library.
It’s actually 550 audio stories, some of which are books, and some of which are just short stories. For example, one of the 550 entries in the PDF listing is Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League”. This is a Sherlock Holmes short story, and a very good one at that, but it is just one of the 12 stories in the single book sold as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” The other 11 are there too, but altogether these 12 stories only make a single audiobook, in the traditional sense of the word. There are other, similar cases.
The makers say “overall there is roughly 2,000 hours of listening”. A typical medium length audiobook, such as you might get from Audible, is generally around eight to ten hours on average. So that suggests that this has 200 to 250 full length audiobooks, some of which are presented as individual short stories.
Second, 2,000 hours of sound in 32 gig of data means the average data rate is (32,000,000,000 * 8 ) / (2000 * 3600) ~= 35,555 bits per second. So I’m guessing they are recorded at 32 kbits/second. If that’s single channel (mono) it is just about acceptable, though not great, for mp3 spoken word, ie audiobooks. If it’s dual channel (stereo) the compression artifacts are likely to be horrendous.
It looked to me that everything on the kids was on the classic. Almost bought both before someone said something and I checked.
/giphy attentive-depraved-army
I bought these elsewhere and they are a pro collection, but I think it was a buy-out of another company that didn’t quite finish editing all the audio. Some performers comments got left in.
@caffeine_dude Yeah, Overcast does that too. It also has a feature where it doesn’t speed up the audio but removes empty space. I’ve tried them but they screw up music podcasts so I usually have them turned off.
In overcast it’s really easy to change the speed-up on the fly also.
Open the podcast to the main playing screen.
Pause the podcast for a sec.
Swipe left to right. Adjust speed. (Easy).
Unpause. Voila! I do this all the time.
Takes less that 2 seconds to do this. Perhaps less than 1 second.
I play talk podcasts really fast and if people don’t enunciate, or they all talk at once, or the recording isn’t great, I miss stuff. So I backup 30 seconds or a min, slow it down, and listen again.
Obviously, someone can’t bear to listen to speeded-up music podcasts unless they are much weirder than I.
@Carebear Yes, you are. Giphy is eccentric and whimsical, so results can be astonishing. If you don’t like it, delete the comment and post it again; you should get a different result. And again.
Wistful-Rushing-Wilderness…I’m so very happy I was able to score one of the 32g Classics on the VMP grab! I’m getting ready to have a 2 level c-spine fusion on Tuesday and these will be greatly appreciated to listen to during my yr long recovery.
@Jolara How did it go for you?
I was gonna say break a leg, but thought it might be regarded as wishing you bad luck, instead of the good fortune I intended.
Instead may your God bless you, and mine too!
To all those who caught my error about Dana and not Sgt. Friday…thanks…cop show lover that I am mistakes do happen …oh well I’m old lol you should know that since I watched Dragnet, Hawaii 50 , Car 51 ( think that was its name) and Highway Patrol…
Estimated Delivery
FedEx SmartPost: Monday, August 21st - Thursday, August 24th
These are shipped by turtle or snail, whichever is less convenient. Give it a little bit. You should have gotten an email with your tracking information, but if not go up to the top, click the person icon and click on my orders and you should see it there.
@Succor Remain calm. It may arrive tomorrow, or it may be impacted by the eclipse and drop into a black hole like all other electronic media, so that we will be reduced to verbal interaction. You just never know.
@BeerPhil This sale was a closeout due to new packaging…but dang if audiobooks wouldn’t be good for a job like trucking? They have the new versions for sale on their website. https://www.egolibrary.com/
@therealjrn Or you could buy a cheap tablet (I have a Fire I got for $35) and get audiobooks from the library that aren’t public domain. I have a speaker designed to fit in a cupholder. Overdrive FTW.
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1x 32GB Flash drive
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Flash drives
Classic titles
Lids off
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Kids titles
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Classic titles: $89.99 at Amazon
Kids titles: $44.99 at Amazon
Warranty
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/giphy library
Holy crap that audio peaking in the Alice in wonderland clip… Please normalize ;_; Or decrease the gain… or move back from the mic, or you know, talk quieter so the fancy light thingy doesn’t flash into red every time you say a sound
@Nexar Yeah, distorted, not enough low/mid, really annoying sibilance … but it does make the professional sample sound that much nicer.
@awk @Nexar I was wondering if the first sample was that bad on purpose.
Also was surprised when the text told me to “listen to the second half”. How did you know that I stopped listening to that racket early, meh description? How did you know?
@InnocuousFarmer
It’s prob not that bad on purpose. Librivox audiobooks are recorded by a variety of volunteer untrained narrators using home equipment (usually smartphone).
Sometimes it is much much worse. Some people have terrible accents or can’t enunciate. Or they naturally read in a way as to cause instant brain death.
Or you can hear the cat or kid or family fight or TV in the background.
I salute them for doing it. But sometimes it is completely unlistenable.
For those who can’t download public domain audiobooks themself.
@venussuz
Wrong. Professionally narrated audiobooks are usually not free for download.
@f00l They are if you have a library card!
@xerdkwa
Yeah that’s true. I do that.
Yeah overdrive!
@f00l Try a search on Amazon for books with Audible Audio edition, then sort from low to high - there are hundreds, all professionally done. Also a lot of chances to learn foreign languages.
Another upvote for overdrive!
@venussuz
I own zillions of these.
/giphy addiction
@f00l Pretty spot-on for this forum, giphy!
@xerdkwa Having fun isn’t hard, when you got a library card!
Wonder if these have the Magic Treehouse books on them. Always liked those.
I think I’d rather have 7 lbs of candy corn meh.
@rileyper Well, they are still for sale, go for it.
All these all librivox?
In case it’s not quite obvious, I confess I have not yet read the product description.
Answer. No.
Not home narrated stuff from librivox.
@f00l I came here to say that this sounds like something you would be interested in but knowing you you already have read most if not all of what’s on the drive. And here you are
@WTFsunshine
I’m a huge sucker for
/giphy more
@f00l Probably a completely stupid question but I can’t seem to find the info here so maybe you can help. If I got this to play in the truck for my two year old granddaughter, how would I play it for her, preferably play it with headphones or something…lol. TIA.
@mehbee
Two ways.
Play it thru your truck speakers (depends on what kinda connection options you have in the truck:. Cassette? Aux in? USB in?
Put them on a device. (android will be way easiest but they can be gotten into an iPod or iPhone or sansa or whatever. Method varies by device).
Get her some headphones and a battery charger for the drive and let let play them.
If you want to go the headphone route, and you want her to have Bluetooth with full controls, I regiment a refurbished LG Tone. About $20-30 at Amazon or Newegg.
Don’t buy a knockoff. Get one made by LG.
If you want, I can get you links to the real deal (LG headsets) later tonite. (not home yet).
PS the device does not have to be activated. B get a uses unactivated android phone. Don’t activate. Just set it up. It ought you work fine.
@f00l Thanks, I knew you’d know! I basically have a broken CD player in my truck and she’s not going near my iPhone 7. I did get her one of those Fire kids tablets for Christmas, but it won’t play it I don’t think. On the other hand, it has a bunch of kids stuff on it and may have better sounding audio books. Decisions, decisions. If it was 5$-10$ I’d get it and worry about how to play it and what it sounds like later. I’m not sure if shell continue to listen if it doesn’t sound good. Of course I’m not a fan of audio books so my bias may be showing.
@mehbee
I have not yet looked into the sound quality or otherwise looked into this.
Without having looked into this offering at all I bet these would play in a fire tablet. Bluetooth headsets will work fine with a fire tablet.
The easiest is an Android phone. An old one. Unactivated, obviously. Easier for portable user. A tablet is more for sitting down with. At bed or desk or table or couch.
Craigslist or something. Get an old s3 or s4 or similar. Wipe it. Put a decent impact glass screen protector on it. Also a really decent case that doesn’t cost too much.
Get whatever app you need for playing these (have not checked)
Then get headphones.
If your truck has a cassette player or a USB port or an aux in you can do it that way. If your truck has Bluetooth you can do it that way
You can do this for free (android phone, iOS phone, prob fire tablet) with just a library card. Instant download and play.
Visit the library ones to find out how to get started. Or check their web site.
@mehbee I don’t think Fire tablets support USB OTG, but you should be able to side load the books using a computer and USB cable if there’s enough memory in the tablet.
youthful-toxic-body
Images could have been a lot worse.
@KDemo
I thought toxic overload was the stated goal and end point of existence?
/giphy toxic overload
@f00l @KDemo - seems like giphy doesn’t want to play. But I like both of your gifs much better than what I was anticipating with the order number.
@f00l @WTFsunshine - Giphy confused ‘toxic’ with ‘cuteness’.
@KDemo
I thought “cute kitties” was the logical destination and endpoint of all existence.
/giphy "cute kitties"
@f00l Giphy is on a roll tonight! Love this one too and I starred it to steal it.
Maybe if these were ePub text. Don’t like audio books. They take way too long.
@ThatsHeadly yes, but they’re a great replacement for Ambien.
@ThatsHeadly
Play them fast while you are doing other stuff.
They are faster that doing other stuff without an audiobook.
@ThatsHeadly Have you seen Standard Ebooks? High-quality productions of public domain works. I’m almost finished with This Side of Paradise.
@SSteve Thanks for sharing the link to the Standard Ebooks site! Here I have been doing this myself (grabbing text from Gutenberg, cleaning it up, and then PDFing it) and this site has already done it all. I have been reading about how to publish on Standard Ebooks - very cool. I am going to try it, since I do it anyway and it would be great to share with others. Right now I share the ones I create with my kids - much to their dismay. Perhaps some day they will appreciate the classics!
Thanks again!
@kathyl
Lots of classic e-books are free at Amazon. Perhaps at BN also.
Costumer Reviews will tell you about the quality.
Besides, it was free. If the quality is bad, just go get another free version of the same book.
@f00l
Thanks! I think I have downloaded all the free classics for Kindle (at least at one time I must have had most of them). Some were okay, but a lot were just awful. The way I got into “editing” them myself was for my kids; I have a pact with them that I will read (or re-read) every classic that they read. So I wouldn’t have to buy several copies of the books, I would grab it from Gutenberg, edit it, add TOC, page numbers, etc., then PDF it and sent it to them. The theory was then we could all read “together.” So far, I think I am very far in the lead…
@kathyl
I am in love with what you are doing.
You can get much of this for free from the library also n including the audio versions.
@f00l If you are going to use the costumer reviews I think you really should include the stagehands.
@Lighter
Customer reviews on Amazon for free Kindle books usually include write a bit of scathing commentary if the formatting of the book is bad, or if that particular edition is full of errors and typos or whatever.
At least I’ve seen many such reviews. Usually among those voted “top” or “most helpful”.
As for costumer reviews: Beyond my pay grade. Stagehands would know better than I.
@kathyl I’m glad you are excited about Standard Ebooks. I really hope it hits critical mass and becomes mainstream. In order to contribute a book it helps if you know how to use GitHub. If not, there are probably people on the Standard Ebooks forum who can help you. You’ll want to go there first anyway to tell them what you want to work on and make sure it’s a fit for the project.
/giphy zune?
/image Zune
@haydesigner Is that gif 30fps?
No swank recording of The Scarlet Letter? No sale.
/giphy cryptic standards
@UncleVinny What do you consider a “swank” recording of The Scarlet Letter? Does it have to be read by Hillary Swank?
@UncleVinny
You want a Demi Moore narration?
Good evening/night/morning everyone! Nic here from the e-GO! Library.
Jazzed for our first Meh. These have gone over quite nicely via other sites, so hope you’ll enjoy too.
As there’s always a few common questions, I thought I’d jump in with this info ahead of time. Here goes…
1] DEEP DISCOUNT
The reason Meh is offering such a discount is that these are encased in our older packaging which is now being updated (the pics on Amazon are also of the old packaging) but the actual USB drives and ALL included AudioBooks are and will still be the exact same.
2] INDEX, FORMAT, LENGTH
For a complete list of books please visit: https://www.egolibrary.com/audiobooks for the 550 or this link for the 125 Kids: https://www.egolibrary.com/kids-audiobooks
These are all in MP3. If any techies out thee prefer the M4B format, shoot us an email via eGoLIbrary.com after your purchase and we’ll send you a download link to the M4B format.
The books vary greatly in length. On the 550 model, some are multi-day epics like the Count of Monte Cristo, while some are very short. Overall there is roughly 2,000 hours of listening so there’s plenty for a long, long time.
3] SAMPLES
You can listen to 2 of the books here:
4] LIBRIVOX, CLASSICS
All books are Classics. And while some of these titles can be found on sites like Librivox, the quality tends to be worlds apart. Librivox recording are often done by volunteers (it can be anyone…you, me, anyone) with any device (so usually their phones for example). Furthermore, often Librivox books are pieced together from many separate volunteer recordings. All our AudioBooks were recorded by our team in studios using professional actors (narrators) for high quality sound (samples above). I am by no means trying to knock Librivox- it is an amazing site and I too love it, but there are substantial differences here. So for a few pennies per book, many think it’s worth it.
5] IPAD/IPHONE, ANDROID
The USB drives are dual-ended with a regular USB end plus a Micro-USB end. The Micro-USB fits well in most Android devices so books can be enjoyed directly that way. If you have an iPhone or iPad you typically would first need to transfer the books to your computer then sync to your device. However, we recently launched a new BONUS APPLE APP – so if you buy one of these, and send us a message with your invoice #, we’ll send you a gift code to unlock the Apple APP. That way you don’t have to transfer anything. You can just pull all the books directly off the app itself.
I think that’s about it for now. Off to get my beauty sleep, but I’ll be back in the morning to help answer any questions.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Nic
@Ppublishers Always great to see a product rep in the thread. Hi!
@Ppublishers Nice to have a rep on the boards; reminds me of WW. Also the titles, was looking and not finding. Now considering…
@rjquillin Specs post has a link to the pdf for the titles.
@Ppublishers
Thanks
I totally totally totally recommend
Three Men In A Boat
@Ppublishers Hmm. What other products do you have, or plan to have?
@Ppublishers Fuck yeah. App. Thanks. This will make work commutes much more enjoyable. My ORDER # restless-tense-bagel … How do I message this to you in order to attain my app code?
@f00l
Have you tried, “To say nothing of the Dog…”
?
@dickie541
Shhhhh.
The first rule of Dog Club is
Never Mention Fog Club.
@Ppublishers A product rep on the forum? That was an unexpected plot twist! Best of luck with the sale.
@Ppublishers Hi Nic! Could you tell me if there are any audiobooks on the kids’ version that aren’t on the adult version? Also, does the adult version include any bonus ebooks like the kids’?
@dickie541 That’s one of my favorite books. I’ve read it at least 4 times.
@Ppublishers Who is the male actor reading Alice in Wonderland?
@grammar_geek - All the book on the Kids are on the full 550 version. And no, the 550 doesn’t have any bonus books. Actually it doesn’t have any space left. Nearly all of the 32GB usable space was taken by the AudioBooks themselves. Thanks!
@SSteve HA - it kinda felt like my first day in a new school, but so far so good. Appreciate it!
@connorbush Beauty! Drop us a line via our contact form here: https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
thanks!
@OldCatLady Right now we have 4 models of the “e-GO! Library” - the 2 Audiobook models on sale here plus a 1,000 eBook (for reading) model + a Spanish collection as well. They can all be seen here: https://www.egolibrary.com/ - thanks!
@f00l There’s also “Three Men on the Bummel” from Jerome K Jerome on there too (actually he has a bunch of books there - good author!)
@rjquillin Many thanks for the warm welcome! If you or anyone needs anything after the sale expires and I retreat to whatever it is i usually do at work, please reach out to us at: https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
We’re here to help anytime! (Well 9-5, M-F, and not holidays) but seriously - we do our best to help so reach out anytime.Thanks!
@Thumperchick Thanks for having me! As just mentioned to @rjquillin if anyone needs us after the sale drop us a line at https://www.egolibrary.com/contact - we want to make sure you make the most of these. Thanks!
@Ppublishers Thanks for the prompt reply! I’m glad to hear there’s no room left on the drive, it makes me feel that I’m getting an even better deal! Also, I must confess, part of why I’m buying this is for the cool 32gb drive I can just plug right in to my phone.
@grammar_geek You have an Android phone? The micro-usb will plug right into nearly all Android phones. If you have an iPhone you would first need to transfer to iTunes on your computer, then sync your iphone OR…contact at us eGoLibrary.com and I’ll send you a code to unlock our iPhone app which makes life a heck of a lot easier
Thanks!
@Ppublishers
Have read. And it’s also wonderfully funny.
Except …
It’s about a random bicycle tour of Germany, and was published in 1900.
And along the way they make a number of humorous observations about the German attitudes and culture of that time period. Which are scary and tragic to read in retrospect … since … Events.
So reading that book is a very different experience, seen through modem eyes.
@Ppublishers Hi - I sent my order number via the contact info on the site to get the app, but haven’t heard back. Could you help? catty-average-vessel
@anneburdge
I just had a search of the help tickets and didn’t see any that might be you (hard to tell though without your email and real name though I took a good guess
Mind re-sending one right asap and letting me know - i’ll look for it and reply right away - these are unique codes so don’t want to post publicly - thanks!
@Ppublishers Just resent - thank you!
@anneburdge
You should have received a reply. Thanks and hope you enjoy thoroughly!
@Ppublishers I’m all set! Thanks so much - quick and responsive help.
I was gifted the 550 Greatest Classics Audio Book for my iPhone. I have installed iStickPro 3.0 and e-Go!Library. Now how do I make it work?
@bellemeek
Contact their CS. The link is here somewhere in this topic.
@bellemeek That @Ppublishers person right above this works for them and is super helpful.
@bellemeek @sammydog01 Hey Bellemeek, that @Ppublishers person here
Can you drop us a line via our helpdesk so we help you please at:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
Can I listen to them on my Sansa? I’m Zune-less.
@heartny No you have to listen to them on your Arya.
I feel like we should have done an audio clip of the specs tonight…
@Thumperchick The whole description should’ve been in audio format, with dramatic reading by trained voice actors. You guys really dropped the ball here.
@awk well, our name kind of sets that expectation…
@Thumperchick
/giphy can’t argue with that
@awk Yeah! something like the Dot Dot Dot Newgrounds review from years back.
"Sounds " like a deal…Like the old dragnet net famous line-- “Book 'em Dano”
@AttyVette You have your shows crossed. “Book 'em Dano” was Hawaii Five-O. Dragnet had "This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I’m a cop. " and “Just the facts. ma’am.”
@AttyVette Except Dano was not on Dragnet.
Darn it! Got ninjafied.
@yakkoTDI Happens. Also from Dragnet, “Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.” I always loved that opening - made me believe that someone actually was innocent. That changed.
@AttyVette like the old Hawaii Five-O line.
@Jonas4321 Wasn’t “Marijuana is the match. Heroin is the fuse. LSD is the bomb.” also from Dragnet?
@Jonas4321 Whenever someone mentions Dragnet, I think of this. My dad had an album called “Comedy Caravan” and this was on it. I listened to this a zillion times when I was growing up.
@SSteve Duuuuuude, what a sweet line. Totally bs regan stuff, but they got one part right : LSD is THE BOMB!
Well, that’s a pretty interesting deal I must say. But I’m not into books. Too many words.
@awk
/giphy werdz
@awk too many words? Paging @f00l - you need to buy this for a word refill.
@Kidsandliz This is the best book if you’re into words:
All the same words as those fancy authors, just in a different order.
@awk
/giphy more werdz
@awk and neither are in random order and the books in your picture use many more different words than the other authors.
@Kidsandliz I think of them as free bonus words. Like, here you’ve got all the words in Moby Dick, plus all these extra ones you can use to create some very cerebral poetry on the side.
@awk
/giphy word up
@awk Concise!? Filthy casual.
Joke’s on you! I still have a working Zune.
Not using it anymore, but still got it!
@heartbleed I actually have one of the Halo branded Zune, new in box… Go figure.
While not something I’m personally interested in, I’m happy to see such an offer on Meh.
The description implies they aren’t Librivox buy are read by professionals.
I have a love/hate relationship with Librivox. I like having free audio books, and dime readings are good, but some are, for me, unlistenable, either because of the equality if the recording or just the voice of the reader.
A trick I learned for public domain books is to buy the Kindle version fit a dollar and then “upgrade” to the Audible version for anywhere from one to for dollars. It’s a lot cheaper than just buying the Audible version alone.
I’ll go read the Amazon reviews if this, if they exist.
@craigthom I hear the quarter readings are better… Also, good call on Audible upgrade to Kindle versions.
@dkaine Lots of Swype errors in that one.
s/dime/some
s/fit/for
s/for/four
@craigthom Good point about buying classics and upgrading them @Audible. I wish they hadn’t recently bumped the price of most Audible companions from $2 or $3 to $7.50.
@venussuz
Did audible audiobook whispersync for voice prices on classics change?
I had not seen that. just grabbed catalogs from several writers that way.
@craigthom agreed, I was being snarky.
@craigthom i was wondering if you were having some type of seizure. I just looked up the Swype site and there was even an error in describing it. No fancy stuff for me, just old fashioned typing.
@f00l They go on sale from time to time. In December 2015 I picked up a bunch of them for $0.99. I bought the Kindle and Audible books for a buck each. Sweet deal.
And the sync is handy for switching between tablet, car, and phone throughout the day.
@f00l Yeah, they increased the pricing for Audible matching about 6 weeks ago. Google “Amazon Audible matchmaker” and the first link should give you a list of books you own that are eligible for upgrade. Most are now $7.49, which might make this a better deal than I had thought, tho the voice quality isn’t Stephen Fry or James Marsters.
@growyoungagain I usually proofread to catch the Swype errors, but I guess I didn’t this time.
Even with the errors it’s easier for me than typing on my phone. The one thing I don’t like is that the more often I let the wrong word pass the more likely it is to think that’s the right word. Still, Swype and proofreading on my phone is faster than fat-fingering the virtual keyboard and proofreading.
I prefer typing on a real keyboard, but that’s another story.
@dkaine No worries.
Here’s a fun example of using the Audible add-on.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Audible, $7.82.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kindle, $0.00, Audible upgrade, $1.99.
You save almost five bucks.
@venussuz
I always check for that when buying audiobooks, first thing. Unless it’s a huge audible sale or something.
Then if the sale price is over $5 I still check
They are assholes for raising the pricing tho.
But I just got a bunch of Mark Twain combos and some other classic stuff way cheap I think. Just last week.
I think?
@f00l Most of the classic books are free, with cheap audiobook versions. Amazon has only increased the price of Audible matches of kindle books you own, for now. If you want a heads up on deals, track the Amazon discussion “Kindle / Audible Recommendations and Deals.”
@venussuz
ok thx
@craigthom You forgot “equality if the recording”
@PhysAssist So I did.
It looks like most, if not all, of the kids’ titles are also in the adult library. There are also a lot of short stories and poems in there, but I still think it’s worth it.
@grammar_geek Seconded; I came here to post that the kids version appears to be a subset of the 550 title version.
@djslack
@grammar_geek
Anyone figure out yet where the two lists do not overlap?
@f00l I have not exhaustively checked, so, you know, don’t put any money on it, but I think all the kid’s library is on the adult library.
@plc
Thought I saw kid something that wasn’t n both. But not checked. And if it’s just one or two books not duped then I don’t want both collections.
@f00l It looks like the kids’ library includes 75 bonus ebooks that aren’t on the adult version; but they’re ebooks, so you can probably find them all on Project Gutenberg.
I’m such an audio snob and anglophile. In for one.
/giphy bragging-cruel-parcel
@OldCatLady - Well, you really liked it last month . . .
@KDemo just outed OldCat Lady!
/giphy outed
@haydesigner
/giphy takei oh my
@f00l I know it’s my fault you broke giphy.
/giphy oh my
@haydesigner - Really, aren’t we all just a prayer away from becoming a cat person?
@KDemo Source please? Because that wasn’t me.
@OldCatLady oh I was joking, I never really thought it was you. I just followed the product link to Amazon. I’ll post the link later when I get to my computer
@OldCatLady - Did you find it? Here’s the link.
But while I was getting the link, I found something else in the sponsored section.
HOW COOL IS THIS?
@OldCatLady - Anyway, you might want to sue that person for impersonating you.
@KDemo What are the chance of two old cat ladies liking audio books!
/image cat lady animated gif
Well, I have no excuse not to get through some of these classics now! Wish it had “Moby Dick” as I still haven’t gotten around to it. Ah well.
Also, really, Joseph Conrad? Guess you lived in a different time…
/image prissy-amicable-range
@QuietDelusions Trust me, Moby Dick isn’t worth your time, whether written or spoken.
@koifish
One could disagree.
But … Those 19th century novelists did have really different senses of pacing.
They really didn’t anticipate entire literate populations habituated to thinking that a YouTube 3 minute video is too long.
@QuietDelusions High school, I read both Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness. I sincerely believe I was the only one in my class that actually read Moby Dick instead of using the Cliffs Notes.
And I hated Heart of Darkness.
@pitamuffin Yeah, I’ve read “Heart of Darkness” too; that wasn’t the title that made me raise an eyebrow.
/giphy spock
@QuietDelusions I haven’t gotten around to Moby Dick, either but check this out. It’s free, and you can listen to it from a variety of sources or just download it.
Each chapter is read by a different person, including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Sir David Attenborough, and dozens more.
I haven’t listened to it, but I will. Eventually. And I will watch Solaris. Some day.
@f00l
Honestly it wasn’t even the length, it was just the lack of meaningful content. It’s like an ocean of pages with a pond’s worth of content.
@koifish
That’s arguable.
But cool. I’ve had that attitude myself : not as summer global judgement about a book - just about the what I was getting for the level of my personal investment, and that I did not wish to invest more.
This would be good for a traveling individual. I’m lucky that I don’t do that, since I can get plenty of audiobooks (even online) from my library.
Sweet. Im an audiobook addict. My library’s selection (including the classics) is running its course, almost all titles worth it are in my history. Depending on length, i can go through two or three a weekend (while im working). But, at the same time…I have never paid for an audiobook…should i start now, with this selection? Mind you, i did have a scribd subscription for a month or two, so i have paid to listen…
@dickie541
If you start paying for audiobooks and you are a true addict, then it kinda gets to be like a fentanyl habit. You gotta have more.
But do it anyway.
Or … Hints:
Some really large public libraries allow people who don’t live there to subscribe. If you can get a library card from a huge library, you get a bigger catalog.
Also:. Your library can get just about anything on cd or sometimes on cassette from the Interlibrary Loan service You might have to wait a while, but they will get it.
No instant downloads. But … I presume you know how to get the content onto your device. And still free.
@f00l Free Library of Philadelphia is a good one to have a card for as they have a huge selection of audiobooks. For that you need to either be a resident of PA or pay $50 for an out of state card.
@f00l
ive considered paying for a membership to portland/multnomah library…180 bucks for the family for a year. I also have family in the bay area, and tidewater, and cleveland, and…just havent reached a breaking point with deschutes library yet.
Also, i love the whirring sound of all those discs going at once. Longest so far was Anathem…28 discs. Moby Dick second with 18. But thats just discs…
I have also dabbled with text to speech using various means. My favorite TTS was “The Sun Also Rises.”
@dickie541
Have done plenty of TTS when there was no decent audiobook and I didn’t want to sit down and read the book for whatever reason.
Amazon’s TTS engine that gets used on Kindle book is a good one. The void is nice and the reading is surprisingly good.
You can do this with old kindles (the ones with audio capacities) but the easiest way is with a fire tablet or a fire phone and a decent headset. (I own fire phones (eBay) that get used only for this).
I think the BN nook app will do TTS.
Some of the other e-book apps will do it.
So for amazon wins on voice for me, bit I have not really done a comparison.
Wife enjoys audiobooks so
/giphy slim-wooden-twig
/buy --model 32gb
@craigthom Sorry, this deal contains 2 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. Try ordering from the checkout page.
@mediocrebot I am not typing that whole string!
@mediocrebot Happy now?
/giphy exhausted-voracious-fudge
I’ll probably buy this, but a couple of comments.
First, it’s not really 550 audiobooks, if you count an audio book as an audio version of a book you’d get from the library.
It’s actually 550 audio stories, some of which are books, and some of which are just short stories. For example, one of the 550 entries in the PDF listing is Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League”. This is a Sherlock Holmes short story, and a very good one at that, but it is just one of the 12 stories in the single book sold as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” The other 11 are there too, but altogether these 12 stories only make a single audiobook, in the traditional sense of the word. There are other, similar cases.
The makers say “overall there is roughly 2,000 hours of listening”. A typical medium length audiobook, such as you might get from Audible, is generally around eight to ten hours on average. So that suggests that this has 200 to 250 full length audiobooks, some of which are presented as individual short stories.
Second, 2,000 hours of sound in 32 gig of data means the average data rate is (32,000,000,000 * 8 ) / (2000 * 3600) ~= 35,555 bits per second. So I’m guessing they are recorded at 32 kbits/second. If that’s single channel (mono) it is just about acceptable, though not great, for mp3 spoken word, ie audiobooks. If it’s dual channel (stereo) the compression artifacts are likely to be horrendous.
@JohnMorris
Re audio quality
Depends. Have listened to lots of audiobooks at that bitrate in the olde days.
They’ve been ok.
That seemed to vary book by book.
@JohnMorris Audible used to have low to medium bitrates, and it was listenable, like AM radio.
little disappointed there’s no pride and prejudice or jane eyre
@russellmz
Go to amazon
Go to Kindle bookstore.
Search for the titles you want.
Filter search to “whispersync for voice” selections.
Then either purchase kindle book first (often free) then audible book (likely very cheap)
Or purchase the two simultaneously.
Now you own whatever for almost no money
Free alternative
Get a library card if you don’t have one.
Your library will have all these as free instant downloads using either overdrive or hoopla or another app.
All you need to own is a library card and a smartphone (unactivated smartphone is OK).
Your library can walk you thru the steps.
@russellmz
Forgot
If you have amazon prime many of these may be free both versions.
If you have kindle unlimited way more of these type of titles will be free both versions.
So many dragon books on the kids stick!
Another $50 bites the dust.
/giphy weird-terrified-toast
I’m so excited, I’m going to need some
virtual-united-oxygen
It looked to me that everything on the kids was on the classic. Almost bought both before someone said something and I checked.
/giphy attentive-depraved-army
I bought these elsewhere and they are a pro collection, but I think it was a buy-out of another company that didn’t quite finish editing all the audio. Some performers comments got left in.
Something about books? TL;DR.
/giphy TL;DR
@mehcuda67
Question from a longtime lurker: does vmp program still exist?
@ofrory
Yes but if you don’t have it already you can no longer buy into it. Closed program.
And if you have it and let it go, it is gone.
They may do some other type of membership with advantages in the future.
@f00l thank you!
@ofrory hit up meh.com/support
@ofrory Welcome to the forums.
Now that you’re no longer a lurker, come on in, spend some time with us, enjoy.
It’s very tempting. The samples sound great. But I can’t even keep up with the few podcasts I subscribe to.
@SSteve Apple helped me out with that. A recent iTunes update deleted about a year and a half of backlogged podcasts.
I was going to recover what I could, but I decided that if I was a year and a half behind I’d probably never have listened to all of them, anyway.
(Some, like the Moth and This American Life, don’t have the full archive online, so past episodes were just gone.)
@craigthom That’s too bad. Sorry to hear it. I stopped using Apple’s Podcast app a while ago and switched to Overcast. I’ve been really happy with it.
@SSteve my podcast player plays faster than normal speed. I would recommend 1.1 and work your way up a bit at a time.
@caffeine_dude
Oh come on. Turn it all the way up to eleven!
/giphy "up to eleven"
@caffeine_dude Yeah, Overcast does that too. It also has a feature where it doesn’t speed up the audio but removes empty space. I’ve tried them but they screw up music podcasts so I usually have them turned off.
@SSteve
Re podcasts:.
Would this work?
Put your non-musical podcasts into, say, overcast, and speed them up.
Put your music-related podcasts into another player and don’t speed them up.
(The built in Apple podcast player sux tho.)
@f00l It’s very thoughtful of you to suggest a fix. I can make per-podcast settings in Overcast. But I’m too lazy to take the time.
@SSteve
In overcast it’s really easy to change the speed-up on the fly also.
Open the podcast to the main playing screen.
Pause the podcast for a sec.
Swipe left to right. Adjust speed. (Easy).
Unpause. Voila! I do this all the time.
Takes less that 2 seconds to do this. Perhaps less than 1 second.
I play talk podcasts really fast and if people don’t enunciate, or they all talk at once, or the recording isn’t great, I miss stuff. So I backup 30 seconds or a min, slow it down, and listen again.
Obviously, someone can’t bear to listen to speeded-up music podcasts unless they are much weirder than I.
@f00l Done! Thanks for the pestering. Now my talking podcasts play a little faster. It feels like I’ve extended my lifespan.
/giphy weary-assertive-mallard
Now… can you have it here by tomorrow for my vacation?
/giphy unpleasant-depressed-jelly
/giphy thirsty-obscure-shelf
No Ulysses? No deal!
@versabox i tried to read Ulysses & i can’t make heads or tails of it
@versabox Over $15 for the Audible version, but, if you get the free Kindle version, you can add on the Audible version for $7.50.
/giphy unnerving-surging-baboon
Oh boy, here goes nothing closes eyes
/giphy flawless-devilish-ass
@Carebear I am dissapoint.
@Carebear Is this better?
/giphy flawless-devilish-ass
@OldCatLady Meh. Am I doing it right?
@Carebear Yes, you are. Giphy is eccentric and whimsical, so results can be astonishing. If you don’t like it, delete the comment and post it again; you should get a different result. And again.
@OldCatLady How bout this?:
@PhysAssist No. Just no.
Grrrr, sold out. Bah humbug!
Declaration of Independence?
I found it shallow and pedantic.
@Pufferfishy
Pedants
@Pufferfishy
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/political-illiteracy?ref=meh_com
I was too lazy. I missed out.
Looking to buy the 32 Gig drive if you get one and are not satisfied. savedme@gmail.com HMU.
@savedme As VMP, you can try to buy one in like 45 minutes. If I buy one for you, will you pay me $42 for it?
@medz Thank you, I didn’t realize they had some set aside for us $5 a month big spenders. I’ll try to get on it.
@savedme
/image odds be in your favor
@savedme Did you get one?
@sammydog01 yes I did. Thank you for the tip. I was not logged in when I saw the sold-out label. I would have missed out if not for you.
@savedme Yay! That was @medz that helped you but I’m always up for taking credit I don’t deserve.
@savedme yay! +10 Imaginary meh referral credits for me!
I just noticed my order number for this:
wormy-novel-ice
I guess it is good that I am getting audio versions!
@kathyl
/giphy wormy-novel-ice
@OldCatLady Thanks…I think! So is that supposed to be the hairy-audiobook-ice version?
@kathyl I don’t know, but it’s pretty gross.
Wistful-Rushing-Wilderness…I’m so very happy I was able to score one of the 32g Classics on the VMP grab! I’m getting ready to have a 2 level c-spine fusion on Tuesday and these will be greatly appreciated to listen to during my yr long recovery.
@Jolara Wishing you an uneventful, full recovery.
@Jolara Recovery is supposed to be boring. So is PT, but this will certainly help. Best of luck Tuesday.
@Jolara How are you doing after your surgery?
@Jolara How did it go for you?
I was gonna say break a leg, but thought it might be regarded as wishing you bad luck, instead of the good fortune I intended.
Instead may your God bless you, and mine too!
To all those who caught my error about Dana and not Sgt. Friday…thanks…cop show lover that I am mistakes do happen …oh well I’m old lol you should know that since I watched Dragnet, Hawaii 50 , Car 51 ( think that was its name) and Highway Patrol…
@AttyVette
@Barney I wasn’t going to tell her Barney, thanks for taking that pressure off me.
@therealjrn haha told you I was old
Thanks@Barney
@Barney btw did y’all all notice one of car 54 's cops was on the t.v. Show The Munsters later on as Herman Munster?
@AttyVette And Al Lewis, who played Grandpa Munster, was also in it, too.
I know my classic TV.
@AttyVette YES! I
Fred Gwinn!
My shipping address is WRONG!
@riosmith That’s just not RIGHT! Has it shipped yet? Maybe you can get some help from customer service.
@riosmith @thumperchick
@connorbush thanks for the tag. @riosmith wrote into CS.
IT HAS NOT ARRIVED~?
@Succor
These are shipped by turtle or snail, whichever is less convenient. Give it a little bit. You should have gotten an email with your tracking information, but if not go up to the top, click the person icon and click on my orders and you should see it there.
@Succor Remain calm. It may arrive tomorrow, or it may be impacted by the eclipse and drop into a black hole like all other electronic media, so that we will be reduced to verbal interaction. You just never know.
@Succor IT HAS ARRIVED~! (That’s what your tracking info says, anyway.)
“big bow mystery” is pretty good so far. locked room mystery.
I like the books, other than it “rewinding too far when I restart the car” I would get 2
more for my brothers who are truck drivers.
@BeerPhil This sale was a closeout due to new packaging…but dang if audiobooks wouldn’t be good for a job like trucking? They have the new versions for sale on their website. https://www.egolibrary.com/
@therealjrn Or you could buy a cheap tablet (I have a Fire I got for $35) and get audiobooks from the library that aren’t public domain. I have a speaker designed to fit in a cupholder. Overdrive FTW.
@BeerPhil if you’re still in the market for more… https://morningsave.com/deals/ego-audiobooks
@BeerPhil Check out today’s deal.