@jmkiii AND @mike808 what kinda secreet code are you talking? ‘M$’-----? And mike808, I don’t even know where to start looking that up…but I’ll try
I just go to NIST atomic clock time to see when the next meh is.
Right - but the main thing is that shinier package also has an unlock to our new Apple and Android app which means if you have an iPad for example you don’t have to worry about transferring the books from the drive onto the iPad. You can just download them off the app and then enjoy (even offline) anytime. Thanks! Nic
@Ppublishers And they’re not sold out so you can actually buy one. And some people we know gave really good reviews. That pushed me over the edge- looking forward to my new books.
Good evening/night/morning everyone! Nic here from the e-GO! Library.
In August we ran our first sale here so it’s nice to be back again! It was a warm welcome so thank you! Back then, I had stopped in to answer a few common questions which people seemed to have found helpful. So if you don’t mind a little (ie. mostly) copy/pasted info this might help…
1] NEW PACK NOW with BONUS APPS
The model offered back in August came in our old packs. What does that mean, besides that these come in a shinier clamshell? Well at the back of these new packs you’ll find a unique code that will unlock our Apple/Android Apps. So if you have an iPhone, iPad or Android device, you don’t even have to transfer anything off the USB drives. You can simply enjoy these AudioBooks directly from the app itself. Very easy/convenient, especially if you’re considering these as a gift for the lesser technically-inclined person this Holiday Season
These are all in MP3. If any techies out there 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. 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] 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.
Last round on Meh sold out in a flash, and while not too many of you ended up contacting us; those that did only had positive things to say (or had minor questions) so by all accounts everything went very well. But anyways, what I want to say is that we stand behind these all the way so if you need anything at all, contact us anytime as we’re here to help any way we can at:
@Ppublishers I am tempted to buy just based on this proactive service approach. Any way to buy and just get the app and m4b links? The shipping date on this doesn’t work for me.
If you order and contact us with the order number, we’ll send you an unlock code for the apps right away so you can start enjoying right away while the mail does it’s thing. Hope that helps. Nic
errr…not sure if Meh can do that - a bit out of my area here - what about having it sent to a friend or as a gift to someone and you just keep the App and/or download link we send? Just an idea…
@Ppublishers I bought the package, and just got it in the mail. I’ve left an email via the contact form on the website for those m4b links you mentioned. Thanks!
I checked the helpdesk and couldn’t see any tickets from you…can you try to resend it? Or if you’re brave you can drop your email here and I’ll email you directly
Holy male author sausagefest, Meh. I love me some Twain, Poe, London (and sausage), but who does a girl gotta blow to get some Bronte, Austen, or even Agatha Christie up in here? Sheesh. And no candy corn? What the Hell am I supposed to have for dessert after all that meat?
@bren01 Some of the Kindle readers (not Fires) on certain other sites (ahem) that sell Amazon refurbs cheap (as in $20) have built in text to speech that is listenable.
Some of the Kindle readers (not Fires) on certain other sites (ahem) that sell Amazon refurbs cheap (as in $20) have built in text to speech that is listenable.
The Amazon TTS engine is better than expected. By far. have listened to several books that way.
(on old Kindle, and used, unactivated fire phone purchased for that exact purpose).
The Fire tablet does not use that good TTS engine? Thought it did.
@bren01 Yeah, the books are free so you’re paying for some sweet talking dude to read them to you. Did you play the sample clips? I would listen to that guy read the phone book.
@sammydog01 And the bonus is that people who do “voice work” can get hammered at a party and start telling people (a) “I make my living with my my mouth” and (b) “I just washed my mouth and I can’t do a thing with it.”
I bought this last time it was here. If you like audiobooks (I do) then it’s a handy collection to fill in a few classic gaps.
There are not 550 books as claimed, if you call something you take home from the library a book: there are 550 files, some of which are complete books, others of which are short stories.
The shortest entry is “Rime Of the Ancient Mariner”, at just 55 seconds. The longest, at 82 hours plus, is “Count of Monte Cristo”. (Must be a slow reader - the same book on Audible has versions from 44 to 53 hours.)
A typical unabridged audiobook from, say, Audible is around 10 hours or so. I reckon this has the equivalent of about 200 books.
According to VLC, to play everything non-stop it would take 88 days, 16 hourse, 27 minutes and 44 seconds. You’d probably want to skip some tracks through - such as the collection of ancient card games. Seriously.
The audio quality is good enough for audiobooks. The MP3s are coded as 32 kb/s, mono.
Even during Ye Olden Times, there were always more books.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?
Attributed to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, 1781, upon receiving the second (or third, or possibly both) volume(s) of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the author.
(quoted by Sir Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography, (1921), vol. 21, p. 1133.)
Well that will take care of my reddit secret Santa gift. She was very specific that she wanted books, even gave me a amazon wish list with the books she wanted or a MacBook. No other information about her really. I think this is a good gift even if it isn’t exactly what she told me to buy her. weak-blurry-scent
@shampshire agreed I told about myself, my family, work and hobbies. I want to be surprised. I don’t care if it is handmade or 100 dollars. I think it is the thought that counts it kind of offends my sensibilities that some see this as a way to get a free item. Last year my Santa gave me a little game cabinet with a bunch of preloaded games. I know it didn’t cost much. The games are crap but the person put thought into it and really tried to get something novel for me. I keep it on my desk along with the note she wrote to me.
@shampshire Then again, by giving them a HD GC, they get exactly what they wanted. And what you spend on the gift will be 100% what they recieve in value. Its the most practical and efficient transfer you can possibly give.
I gave up on Reddit Secret Santa when the emphasis shifted away from the core concept to “help set a new Guinness world record every year” (which polluted the pool with users signing up specifically for that reason).
@shampshire From what I recall, the “spirit of the exchange” is me doing my best to make someone happy, and then receiving a package full of garage sale leftovers.
@rprussell Every year (since 2014) the gifts I have received have been thoughtful and personalized. Twice I have gotten handmade gifts. Some have probably been barely $20 with shipping, others have been significantly more. I have always appreciated the gifts and a couple are still in my office now.
My giftees have been wildly different. Some extremely appreciative, while one never even acknowledged the gift. I will admit to having better luck on the specific exchanges vs the semi annual secret Santa. I’m guessing mister gift certificate won’t be very grateful. And sending a GC takes away a lot of the fun for me.
@Jasonf1984 I guess you have to ask yourself whether you are truly giving a gift or are you ‘giving’ with the expectation that you will be recieving something in return. That’s not a gift. That’s a contract or a transaction.
As long as you’re talking about the 'spirit’of giving, what does that say about you when you feel disappointed that the recipient of your ‘gift’ isn’t as appreciative of it as you would like them to be. Just sayin.
@mike808 That’s fine for charities- no thanks required. But I disagree about gifts to people you know or gift exchanges. Those folks should say thanks and at least pretend to appreciate the gift.
@mike808 That’s true. I guess I want to enjoy the experience of finding and giving a decent gift as well if not more than receiving. As I have gotten older I seem to derive more pleasure from the giving than receiving. I guess I am being a little selfish.
@Jasonf1984 Don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re halfway there. The next phase is to give without expectation. Then you have progressed from generosity to altruism. Not criticizing giving, just saying that there’s something beyond the kind of giving you’re at in life.
Note that this contains a reading of Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, a short poem that figures somewhat in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, which I’m midway through. In particular, the line “Some one had blunder’d“ is a recurring motif, and I was surprised to see that of the two versions listed by Wikisource (https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(Tennyson)), one doesn’t even include this line!
All that to say…there’s no way to be sure that this slender thumb drive contains the version of Tennyson’s coruscating ode that will help clarify for you the themes that Woolf was driving at, but if you gamble and make a purchase anyway and find that it’s not correct, I volunteer to read the orthodox version aloud to you anytime, day or night, with but a fortnight’s notice, using a technology of your choosing, anytime between December 10th, 2017 and January 31st, 2018 (inclusive). Just doing my bit to keep the flames of the literary classics alight.
Got these from “that other site” some months back and it is quite a good deal. Some very pro quality readers, not volunteers, wannabees or students. Since I have published my own “how to” audiobooks over the years, I thought I would say it is a LOT of work to do even ONE book well. Great commute material when all the news is wearing on you.
I got one last time, to use while I type in medical charts at work, but all the books I’m interested are read in a sonorous montone, making sleep avoidance a real Herculean effort.
…and that’s what I wanted the audiobooks for in the first place- to keep me from being bored to sleep.
Thanks! I used to love some of those shows!
We listen to the Chant II CD, Gregorian monks intoning sonorous nonsense [to my non-latin trained ears] repetitively in varying piches and volumes kept me from hearing the world outside all the years I worked at night and slept the days away- and still works now.
Just as an FIY - On the amazon reviews/Q&A several people stated that if you listen to them using your car to access them, every time you turn off your engine they start back at the beginning.
This is true (though would also happen with any USB drive you try to play in your car stereo). We always recommend putting the books on a a device such as phone, tablet or Mp3 player first then “hooking” that up to your car stereo using a cable or bet BlueTooth. With the apps that come with this it’s very easy to load the books you want on your phone. Then you can always keep listening when you get out of the car too. Hope that helps!
@caffeineguy yep. On the Kenwood kdc ‘###’ decks in my and my wife’s cars, USB drives continue playback a few seconds before where they were when the car was last turned off, unless the TOC on the drive changes, then it’ll start from the top.
@chellemonkey I guaranteed it’s not a 32 gb app which means it’s pulling the audiobooks from a cloud. Not great for bad signal areas or limited data plans.
@venussuz I use mine on my tablet with no extra cable. I actually use my phone as a phone so I don’t like podcasts, books, movies or whatever clogging it up. My phone uses a newer mini USB thing but it came with a backward compatible adapter.
You seem to be down on this product for some reason.
Right - but the main thing is that shinier package also has an unlock to our new Apple and Android app which means if you have an iPad for example you don’t have to worry about transferring the books from the drive onto the iPad. You can just download them off the app and then enjoy (even offline) anytime. Thanks! Nic
@therealjrn Yep, why use an eight hundred dollar phone when a thirty buck piece of Amazon crap will work just as well. I use a tablet for audiobooks. It gets abused. If it breaks I will buy another one without shedding a tear.
@f00l and others. Yes, you can download and listen to them offline. My point was the need to either do so ahead of a trip or attach the drive to your phone or tablet. Do you really want to be the person on an 8 hour flight with their laptop hogging seat space? My 1 gb data plan would get chewed up by d/ling these en route assuming I can get a signal - some parts of the US get poor reception, even from AT&T or Verizon.
I was suggesting people grab a $1 cable to connect the drive to their phone or tablet if that’s what they’ll use as most don’t have ports to plug them in.
Nothing against this package - I considered getting it both times but decided against it because I don’t need it.
@venussuz Speaking of fools, I (the lesser/greater (?) fool) missed that this has both a usb and micro usb connector, negating the need for the extra cable. Well done, ego. Would plug right into any device I would use it with.
i actually like these. bought one last time. i plugged it into my car’s USB port and listened to a Mark Twain tale on my work commute. i thoroughly enjoyed it!
Whoa. Communist Manifesto. Lord Jim. Adventures of Tom Sawyer. On War. Fall of the House of Usher. If it was written with a quill or steel pen, it’s here.
And to add injury to insult, my order number is “bardic fussy termite.” What, do you have Edgar Allan Poe chained to a keyboard in the cellar of Mediocre Tower making this stuff up?
OH EM EFF GEE - we just listened to EXACTLY THIS THING during our eleven-hour Thanksgiving “visit the fambly” drive. PRICELESS. I love it. It honestly ranks right up there as one of my best investments ever.
It turns out the original “Three Musketeers” is actually quite funny
I purchased the files last summer, but see now that you have an app, which should be able to placehold, etc. Can the version I purchased be adapted to be used with the app?
I don’t see my earlier post, but I can attest to the fact that these are professionally recorded. Not students, volunteers, etc. It’s a lot of work to record one book.
go to gutenberg.org or librivox.org and download the titles you want for free. I’m sure that’s what they did here as they are all in the public domain. Too much money for an $8 flash drive.
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.
I have attempted to listen to terrible quality librivox narration, where the various narrators were barely endurable, and complete with dogs barking and phones ringing in the background.
I appreciate what librivox narrators do for the rest of us.
But in the case of audiobook narration, [a professional quality voice plus studio recording control] wins every time.
I converted the PDF to a table so I could sort by author’s name. This was much more helpful to me. If you’d like to use it, feel free: Dropbox file you can download
/buy OK, I suppose with 15 hours commuting in the car every week I might enjoy this. 32K mono will drive me nuts though, I’m the kind of guy that signs up for a SiriusXM trial just so I can terminate and cite poor audio quality; That said, I’ll need to get the link to the higher quality ones and stick them on an SD card that my car’s deck will take
You have an Apple or Android phone/device? If so, the best thing to do is use our App (the instructions and code are on the back of the package) - which will easily let you download any/all the titles you want on your device. Then “hook up” your phone to your car stereo - the kids will easily show you how. What this does is also allows you to easily enjoy out of the car too!
@Ppublishers Hey Nic - I copied a few of these (from the previous sale’s key) onto my phone to listen to, but I find the pause/resume is all effed up.
To wit: Whenever I pause it, go do something, come back and press “Play” again, it backs up to some sort of previous hashmark, often tens of minutes earlier, and I cannot fast forward to where I actually was. “The Three Musketeers” was an excellent example of this. Dragging back and forth on the elapsed time bar was useless, taking me back and forth in the same-sized time chunks. I could not get to my actual stopping point.
I never ever ever have had this problem with mp3 files before, on this or any other player, even longer ones like radio shows. Is it a file format thing?
Otherwise (as I posted elsewhere) I love the living hell out of this product and it made a long long road trip very enjoyable!
Thanks a lot for the kind words first of all! Much appreciated. So i’m not just saying this…but I’ve never heard of this happening before. What phone are you using? And does this happen on other devices you have (if you’ve tried)? Do you want to try our new Apps to see if this solves your issue? Let me know - here to help my good man!
@Ppublishers It’s an HTC One M9, using whatever their built-in “Music” player is.
E.G. I just cranked up the Canterville Ghost, and forwarded it to 26minutes and change, and it leapt back to 18:25 before actually starting to play.
A similar - but not identical - thing with “Google Play Music” - I could drag it up to 38 minutes into the book, but when I hit “Pause” it jumps back to 25 minutes. Difference there is that once I play again, I could successfully drag it forward to 38 again. Wish I’d tried that on the road last week
WEIRD.
How do I get to the new APP? I would surely try it out, if for no other reason than to help nail this down.
@rprussell Sounds like the audio equivalent of a keyframe in a video file-- Most streaming formats are based on fixed snapshots, then a blob of deltas, so jumping in any direction requires first finding the keyframe and working forward from there.
@rprussell Actually it might be simpler than that-- it might be a block/buffer size setting in your player or when the MP3s were encoded. If they were encoded in Matroska MKA files, they could have added bookmarks for chapters very much like DVDs
@caffeineguy That occurred to me - but they don’t seem to be lined up with any sort of rational chapter break. I was wondering about the keyframe idea, but it’s seriously large breaks between them if that’s the case. Eesh.
@Ppublishers Hey! I looked at the back of the clamshell my USB came in, and it has a scratchoff thing for the apps… so I guess I got the latest version after all? I’ll try it tomorrow.
@rprussell Nice! Yea during the last sale they snuck in a few of the newer packs that just had come out but the vast majority were the old ones. If you need anything or otherwise be in touch! Thanks
Thanks a lot for the kind words first of all! Much appreciated. So i’m not just saying this…but I’ve never heard of this happening before. What phone are you using? And does this happen on other devices you have (if you’ve tried)? Do you want to try our new Apps to see if this solves your issue? Let me know - here to help my good man!
It’s not ideological for me like it seems for some, but e-books are not for me, and I’m old enough that I bet I make it to the grave without ever reading one. I can understand what some people like about them. On the other hand, their strongest advocates tend to underestimate the virtues of the traditional lower-tech format, in my opinion.
@Ppublishers Have you ever thought of doing this for Spanish language classics too? Many of us took Spanish in high school and can read it but get completely lost whenever anybody actually speaks it because we don’t get enough practice listening to Spanish. I’ve been watching telenovelas in Spanish, but my wife says it’s making my accent sound more ghetto because the shows are all about drug traffickers.
@Neil long story short…yes, but so far not to great success. We do offer a Spanish model with books to read (both contemporary and Classics), but getting quality AudioBooks made in Spanish seems to be somewhat of a Herculean effort which we haven’t been able to sink our teeth in yet. It’s on the list though
Bought this last time and it’s pretty cool. The iPhone app is really handy if you don’t want to manually copy all of the files to your podcast/music/media player device.
I presume the Android app works as well too, but I can’t say I’ve used it.
@mrallen1 Thanks! Yea the Android app works nearly the same except you can chose any music player to play the tracks whereas with Apple you only have the once choice. But for most that’s minor/inconsequential.
Does the app have a speed control to speed up the playback of the track? My podcast app (Overcast) has that feature along with an option to reduce the little gaps of silence. I’m absolutely addicted to the feature. I even started speeding up the evening news on my dvr (TiVo) too.
@Ppublishers OK, that did it. I placed the order even though I really wanted Spanish and my wife is a fan of some female classics like Jane Austin and Gone With the Wind (and Charles Dickens).
@Neil Terrific! Thanks and if you find the time later on (after having used it) we’d love to hear your honest feedback so drop us a line anytime. Thanks!
550 Audiobooks is a teensy bit misleading, since the vast majority of these are short stories or even short individual poems. Still, a lot of hours, I’m sure. But not for me. I like a printed text because I read faster than a voice can speak. And my commute is only 5 minutes, so I don’t need something to fill the hours in the car either. Plus, as a prof of 19C British lit, I’ve read most of these already.
@basketcase The point of audiobooks is that you can listen while driving, exercising, folding laundry, cleaning toilets, cooking, and all sorts of other activities. I would be surprised if many people plopped down in a comfy chair with a cup of coffee to listen to an audiobook.
NO DRM. We encourage sharing with friends/family. Of course not reselling (the recordings are proprietary) but by all means if you can spread a little audiobook love please do!
@Zeebers651 Welcome to meh! One deal per each 24 hour period. There is a sister site called morningsave.com that you might want to monitor in case some overstock of this deal ends up there as it is wont to do occasionally.
@Yoda_Daenerys I think it’s $32 vs $28 on Meh. Shipping is $5 but $2 is the morningsave version of VMP so you can unlock free shipping for two bucks a month then cancel. That makes it $34 instead of $33.
If you had kept VMP it would have been 10% off with free shipping or $28 plus change.
I was going to order this and then I read the list of included books. There were a few titles that probably could be seen as offensive to some, particularly the Joseph Conrad novel that was included. Heart of Darkness is a far more well-known book than the one that was chosen, so I am not sure why it was not chosen instead.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x 32GB Flash drive
Price Comparison
$119.99 at Amazon
Warranty
30 day e-Go
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Sell some more of those Monster 64GB USB sticks and I’d be in.
/giphy no no no no
Call me Ishmael
@norman8
Well, bless me. If it isn’t Norm Ishmael! How’s the White Whale trade these days?
Anyone turned it into a videogame yet?
I am tempted to reward the “makeoutclub” reference with s buy simply based on nostalgia.
/giphy this is stupid
@Pavlov
Match message to audience.
Win!
My 'puter says you’re early. What gives?
@jmkiii I’m pretty sure your computer is wrong. My computer (and network time) agree with Meh.
@yeppers Just checked. yep. I think I gave up accuracy in an effort to keep the M$ eyes at bay… Win 10!
@jmkiii psssst. Put static IPs in for tick and tock with the MS ntp server names.
@jmkiii AND @mike808 what kinda secreet code are you talking? ‘M$’-----? And mike808, I don’t even know where to start looking that up…but I’ll try
I just go to NIST atomic clock time to see when the next meh is.
Is meh getting woot leftovers now?
WTF…
I love meh. But there’s a lot of people here that LOVE love meh. So, to the LOVE love ones, didn’t this come up before?
I’ve been shaking my head at lot lately, at midnight.
@wew
Yes it did.
@wew These are in a shinier clamshell according to the product rep.
@sammydog01
Right - but the main thing is that shinier package also has an unlock to our new Apple and Android app which means if you have an iPad for example you don’t have to worry about transferring the books from the drive onto the iPad. You can just download them off the app and then enjoy (even offline) anytime. Thanks! Nic
@Ppublishers And they’re not sold out so you can actually buy one. And some people we know gave really good reviews. That pushed me over the edge- looking forward to my new books.
And shiny…
/giphy shiny
I’m gonna leave that there for @mfladd.
Where E-go I go or Meh be not
@haydesigner HA
@ZADMan I saw this too and thought “What the meh”
Good evening/night/morning everyone! Nic here from the e-GO! Library.
In August we ran our first sale here so it’s nice to be back again! It was a warm welcome so thank you! Back then, I had stopped in to answer a few common questions which people seemed to have found helpful. So if you don’t mind a little (ie. mostly) copy/pasted info this might help…
1] NEW PACK NOW with BONUS APPS
The model offered back in August came in our old packs. What does that mean, besides that these come in a shinier clamshell? Well at the back of these new packs you’ll find a unique code that will unlock our Apple/Android Apps. So if you have an iPhone, iPad or Android device, you don’t even have to transfer anything off the USB drives. You can simply enjoy these AudioBooks directly from the app itself. Very easy/convenient, especially if you’re considering these as a gift for the lesser technically-inclined person this Holiday Season
2] INDEX, FORMAT, LENGTH
For a complete list of books please visit: https://www.egolibrary.com/audiobooks
These are all in MP3. If any techies out there 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. 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] 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.
4] SAMPLES
You can listen to 2 of the books here:
http://www.egolibrary.com/data/demo/Flying-Dutchman.mp3
http://www.egolibrary.com/data/demo/Tom-Sawyer.mp3
5] SUPPORT
Last round on Meh sold out in a flash, and while not too many of you ended up contacting us; those that did only had positive things to say (or had minor questions) so by all accounts everything went very well. But anyways, what I want to say is that we stand behind these all the way so if you need anything at all, contact us anytime as we’re here to help any way we can at:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
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 in advance!
Nic
@Ppublishers Are all of the audio books the original versions or have they been abridged?
@Ppublishers I am tempted to buy just based on this proactive service approach. Any way to buy and just get the app and m4b links? The shipping date on this doesn’t work for me.
@Ppublishers
Any way to unlock the audiobooks within the app, for those who purchased your offering in August?
@MaestroTheRange
All UNabridged! Thanks
@dalekjoe
Of course…contact our support with your order number and we’ll send you both right away! At:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
@f00l
Drop us a line at the helpdesk and we’ll be happy to send you the unlock code:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
@Ppublishers Thanks! Email sent! You guys are great!
@Ppublishers You had me at shinier.
@Ppublishers Hey, meh, any way to otder and not have the physical item ship, or delay shipment?
@dalekjoe
If you order and contact us with the order number, we’ll send you an unlock code for the apps right away so you can start enjoying right away while the mail does it’s thing. Hope that helps. Nic
@Ppublishers Appreciate that, but I would need the package to not show up at my door.
@dalekjoe
errr…not sure if Meh can do that - a bit out of my area here - what about having it sent to a friend or as a gift to someone and you just keep the App and/or download link we send? Just an idea…
@dalekjoe Use your second Meh.com account with the alternate address.
@Ppublishers I bought the package, and just got it in the mail. I’ve left an email via the contact form on the website for those m4b links you mentioned. Thanks!
@njpomeroy
I checked the helpdesk and couldn’t see any tickets from you…can you try to resend it? Or if you’re brave you can drop your email here and I’ll email you directly
@Ppublishers brave-schmave. I’m sure I’ll regret this: {You would totally regret that. ~TC}
@njpomeroy
I just sent you the email - subject: M4B audiobooks
just let me know you get it. And hopefully you can take down your email now
@Thumperchick (or any other Mediocre person)
Feel free to redact the email address now.
@Thumperchick thank you!
@Ppublishers I purchased e-GO! 550 Classic and www.eGoLibrary.com/apps says my code has already been used. I have tried reporting this problem through https://www.egolibrary.com/contact twice but never response.
Meh.com ORDER # childlike-melted-throat
@SteveP
We just replied via the help-desk a few minutes ago…can you check your email please?
heres the booklist for those interested: https://www.egolibrary.com/#audiobooks
edit: Beaten to it. Scrambled.
“Canon fodder” got me good
32GB USB sticks is so 2000s, and Micro USB ports are so 2010s.
Oh, sorry, you are trying to sell books.
Geeks like me get easily distracted.
I can’t tell which is the free one and which is the ego one in the side by side haha. Both versions of Alice sound good to me.
@Collin1000 I hope the first one is the freebie- the guy with the accent is much better.
@Collin1000 the voices are a matter of opinion but the first definitely has a background hiss while the other one has only the voice.
@russellmz True, everyone’s tastes are different.
This is tempting but I already spent all my money on video games
I was going to wait for the Super eGo version, but what I really wanted was the Id.
/giphy har
So, how long does it take to print all of them out? I like to read all my audio books in text.
Holy male author sausagefest, Meh. I love me some Twain, Poe, London (and sausage), but who does a girl gotta blow to get some Bronte, Austen, or even Agatha Christie up in here? Sheesh. And no candy corn? What the Hell am I supposed to have for dessert after all that meat?
@bren01
@bren01
@mfladd I was expecting it, but that response came kinda fast.
@bren01 Hahahaha
@bren01 Mary Shelly not good enough?
@mfladd I feel like I should know this clip. Is it from Edge of Tomorrow?
@bren01 Some of the Kindle readers (not Fires) on certain other sites (ahem) that sell Amazon refurbs cheap (as in $20) have built in text to speech that is listenable.
@UncleVinny Cruise clip is from Jerry Maguire.
@radi0j0hn
The Amazon TTS engine is better than expected. By far. have listened to several books that way.
(on old Kindle, and used, unactivated fire phone purchased for that exact purpose).
The Fire tablet does not use that good TTS engine? Thought it did.
@bren01 Yeah, the books are free so you’re paying for some sweet talking dude to read them to you. Did you play the sample clips? I would listen to that guy read the phone book.
@f00l I really have not tried it on my Fire(s). I like the battery life on the Kindles…plug 'm in my audio in on my car.
@sammydog01 And the bonus is that people who do “voice work” can get hammered at a party and start telling people (a) “I make my living with my my mouth” and (b) “I just washed my mouth and I can’t do a thing with it.”
Is it too late to nominate @bren01 for GoaT for this post?
@Wormwood Mary Shelley’s swell, I was just surprised/ disappointed how few female authors were represented in that list
No Finnegan’s Wake? Count me out.
@styloroc and no Dune or LOTR. Aren’t these supposed to be classics?
@styloroc if only you lived in Seattle! We have a guy who’s memorizing the whole thing. I went to a chapter reading a few weekends ago.
Behold, from a performance last year: http://www.thestranger.com/events/24732193/finnegans-wake
@hchavers I think this is limited to classics that are in the public domain.
@UncleVinny wow, how is that even possible??
@styloroc he’s a maniac! People have been memorizing unbelievable things for millennia, but this is indeed impressive.
@UncleVinny
Homer and many other ancient classics were intended to be spoken/recited/chanted/sung
Since most folk didn’t read.
I never have to pay Audible again.
/giphy exponential joyful yoke
I bought this last time it was here. If you like audiobooks (I do) then it’s a handy collection to fill in a few classic gaps.
There are not 550 books as claimed, if you call something you take home from the library a book: there are 550 files, some of which are complete books, others of which are short stories.
The shortest entry is “Rime Of the Ancient Mariner”, at just 55 seconds. The longest, at 82 hours plus, is “Count of Monte Cristo”. (Must be a slow reader - the same book on Audible has versions from 44 to 53 hours.)
A typical unabridged audiobook from, say, Audible is around 10 hours or so. I reckon this has the equivalent of about 200 books.
According to VLC, to play everything non-stop it would take 88 days, 16 hourse, 27 minutes and 44 seconds. You’d probably want to skip some tracks through - such as the collection of ancient card games. Seriously.
The audio quality is good enough for audiobooks. The MP3s are coded as 32 kb/s, mono.
@JohnMorris Thanks for the info.
@JohnMorris
Any decent player (including Audible) will give the listener various speed options without making it sound wonky.
Most people I know listen at between 1.25 and 1.5. If the narrator reads slowly, faster playback is prob good.
Re worries about the time it might take to listen to one of the longer works.
@f00l What, do you have something better to do?
@sammydog01
Even during Ye Olden Times, there were always more books.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
Attributed to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, 1781, upon receiving the second (or third, or possibly both) volume(s) of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the author.
(quoted by Sir Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography, (1921), vol. 21, p. 1133.)
Well that will take care of my reddit secret Santa gift. She was very specific that she wanted books, even gave me a amazon wish list with the books she wanted or a MacBook. No other information about her really. I think this is a good gift even if it isn’t exactly what she told me to buy her. weak-blurry-scent
@Jasonf1984 You are doing better than me for reddit’s SS. I got “give me a gift card to Home Depot.”
I’m all for practical gifts, but not really the spirit of the exchange.
@shampshire agreed I told about myself, my family, work and hobbies. I want to be surprised. I don’t care if it is handmade or 100 dollars. I think it is the thought that counts it kind of offends my sensibilities that some see this as a way to get a free item. Last year my Santa gave me a little game cabinet with a bunch of preloaded games. I know it didn’t cost much. The games are crap but the person put thought into it and really tried to get something novel for me. I keep it on my desk along with the note she wrote to me.
@shampshire Then again, by giving them a HD GC, they get exactly what they wanted. And what you spend on the gift will be 100% what they recieve in value. Its the most practical and efficient transfer you can possibly give.
That said, I don’t give gifts. I give presence.
@Jasonf1984
I gave up on Reddit Secret Santa when the emphasis shifted away from the core concept to “help set a new Guinness world record every year” (which polluted the pool with users signing up specifically for that reason).
@shampshire From what I recall, the “spirit of the exchange” is me doing my best to make someone happy, and then receiving a package full of garage sale leftovers.
Twice.
Has it changed recently? This was 2012-ish.
@mike808 That’s true but I have plenty of friends irl that I could just give cash or gift cards to.
@rprussell Every year (since 2014) the gifts I have received have been thoughtful and personalized. Twice I have gotten handmade gifts. Some have probably been barely $20 with shipping, others have been significantly more. I have always appreciated the gifts and a couple are still in my office now.
My giftees have been wildly different. Some extremely appreciative, while one never even acknowledged the gift. I will admit to having better luck on the specific exchanges vs the semi annual secret Santa. I’m guessing mister gift certificate won’t be very grateful. And sending a GC takes away a lot of the fun for me.
@Jasonf1984 I guess you have to ask yourself whether you are truly giving a gift or are you ‘giving’ with the expectation that you will be recieving something in return. That’s not a gift. That’s a contract or a transaction.
As long as you’re talking about the 'spirit’of giving, what does that say about you when you feel disappointed that the recipient of your ‘gift’ isn’t as appreciative of it as you would like them to be. Just sayin.
@mike808 That’s fine for charities- no thanks required. But I disagree about gifts to people you know or gift exchanges. Those folks should say thanks and at least pretend to appreciate the gift.
@mike808 That’s true. I guess I want to enjoy the experience of finding and giving a decent gift as well if not more than receiving. As I have gotten older I seem to derive more pleasure from the giving than receiving. I guess I am being a little selfish.
@Jasonf1984 Don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re halfway there. The next phase is to give without expectation. Then you have progressed from generosity to altruism. Not criticizing giving, just saying that there’s something beyond the kind of giving you’re at in life.
@mike808 Thanks, I didn’t know I was going to get into a discussion about the virtues of giving lol.
Note that this contains a reading of Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, a short poem that figures somewhat in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, which I’m midway through. In particular, the line “Some one had blunder’d“ is a recurring motif, and I was surprised to see that of the two versions listed by Wikisource (https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(Tennyson)), one doesn’t even include this line!
All that to say…there’s no way to be sure that this slender thumb drive contains the version of Tennyson’s coruscating ode that will help clarify for you the themes that Woolf was driving at, but if you gamble and make a purchase anyway and find that it’s not correct, I volunteer to read the orthodox version aloud to you anytime, day or night, with but a fortnight’s notice, using a technology of your choosing, anytime between December 10th, 2017 and January 31st, 2018 (inclusive). Just doing my bit to keep the flames of the literary classics alight.
@UncleVinny I never learned about The Charge of the Light Brigade from History class, or English class… I learned it from a car show!
@UncleVinny
Very cool offer.
Volley’d and thunder’d;
@f00l Indeed. T’was truly stentorian.
@UncleVinny the version in aug has the line.
Communist Maifesto plus Declaration of Independence plus Kama Sutra? Hell, I’m in.
@Sarahsda many here probably don’t know about one of those, namely tbe Declaraction of Independence.
@hchavers Declar-action?
Got these from “that other site” some months back and it is quite a good deal. Some very pro quality readers, not volunteers, wannabees or students. Since I have published my own “how to” audiobooks over the years, I thought I would say it is a LOT of work to do even ONE book well. Great commute material when all the news is wearing on you.
/buy
@jake5snooze It worked! Your order number is: envious-warlike-relation
/image envious warlike relation
is this a 2.0 or 3.0 drive? also is it a read only drive?
@sp3ar
2.0 but NOT read only
I’ll pass
/giphy Physical Media is dead
@Cyklown Digital media on a USB stick is now considered “physical media”? Digital media by the way that you can transfer to any other device?
I got one last time, to use while I type in medical charts at work, but all the books I’m interested are read in a sonorous montone, making sleep avoidance a real Herculean effort.
…and that’s what I wanted the audiobooks for in the first place- to keep me from being bored to sleep.
@PhysAssist Heh. I play them to go to sleep at night.
Have you ever looked into Old Time Radio? Just a quick link to a free one here, but there are more:
The Antioch Broadcasting Network (ABN)
Playing today’s date in history when available
http://radio.macinmind.com/
@therealjrn
Some if that is really fun.
Thanks! I used to love some of those shows!
We listen to the Chant II CD, Gregorian monks intoning sonorous nonsense [to my non-latin trained ears] repetitively in varying piches and volumes kept me from hearing the world outside all the years I worked at night and slept the days away- and still works now.
@PhysAssist 3 words. Tibetan throat singers.
Best order number yet
/giphy giant fantabulous ass
@magman60
@therealjrn
Just as an FIY - On the amazon reviews/Q&A several people stated that if you listen to them using your car to access them, every time you turn off your engine they start back at the beginning.
@Kidsandliz
This is true (though would also happen with any USB drive you try to play in your car stereo). We always recommend putting the books on a a device such as phone, tablet or Mp3 player first then “hooking” that up to your car stereo using a cable or bet BlueTooth. With the apps that come with this it’s very easy to load the books you want on your phone. Then you can always keep listening when you get out of the car too. Hope that helps!
@Kidsandliz That really depends on the car–
@caffeineguy yep. On the Kenwood kdc ‘###’ decks in my and my wife’s cars, USB drives continue playback a few seconds before where they were when the car was last turned off, unless the TOC on the drive changes, then it’ll start from the top.
Anyone thinking of getting this to use with phone or tablet should also grab a USB to OTG cable or whatever the apple equivalent is.
@venussuz the rep said they give free access to an app so you don’t have to download them from the drive
@chellemonkey I guaranteed it’s not a 32 gb app which means it’s pulling the audiobooks from a cloud. Not great for bad signal areas or limited data plans.
@venussuz Audible uses an app and lets you download and play offline. I would hope these guys do too.
@venussuz I use mine on my tablet with no extra cable. I actually use my phone as a phone so I don’t like podcasts, books, movies or whatever clogging it up. My phone uses a newer mini USB thing but it came with a backward compatible adapter.
You seem to be down on this product for some reason.
@sammydog01
Exactly how it works! Thanks
@venussuz Yes, although I was mildly impressed when it had both kinds of USB plug on it so I could mount it (hyurr) directly on my Android phone.
IMHO there is nothing bad about this item.
@venussuz
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@therealjrn Yep, why use an eight hundred dollar phone when a thirty buck piece of Amazon crap will work just as well. I use a tablet for audiobooks. It gets abused. If it breaks I will buy another one without shedding a tear.
@f00l and others. Yes, you can download and listen to them offline. My point was the need to either do so ahead of a trip or attach the drive to your phone or tablet. Do you really want to be the person on an 8 hour flight with their laptop hogging seat space? My 1 gb data plan would get chewed up by d/ling these en route assuming I can get a signal - some parts of the US get poor reception, even from AT&T or Verizon.
I was suggesting people grab a $1 cable to connect the drive to their phone or tablet if that’s what they’ll use as most don’t have ports to plug them in.
Nothing against this package - I considered getting it both times but decided against it because I don’t need it.
@venussuz Speaking of fools, I (the lesser/greater (?) fool) missed that this has both a usb and micro usb connector, negating the need for the extra cable. Well done, ego. Would plug right into any device I would use it with.
Mehbe a teacher can use these at school.
/buy --coupon 25dollarsoff
@sligett It worked! Your order number is: fat-fruity-channel
/image fat fruity channel
@sligett How did that coupon thing work out for you?
@sammydog01 There was a brief feeling of euphoria, and then… nothing.
/giphy let down
@sligett Maybe you should have tried 26 dollars off?
@sammydog01 Or $29 off?
i actually like these. bought one last time. i plugged it into my car’s USB port and listened to a Mark Twain tale on my work commute. i thoroughly enjoyed it!
Whoa. Communist Manifesto. Lord Jim. Adventures of Tom Sawyer. On War. Fall of the House of Usher. If it was written with a quill or steel pen, it’s here.
And to add injury to insult, my order number is “bardic fussy termite.” What, do you have Edgar Allan Poe chained to a keyboard in the cellar of Mediocre Tower making this stuff up?
OH EM EFF GEE - we just listened to EXACTLY THIS THING during our eleven-hour Thanksgiving “visit the fambly” drive. PRICELESS. I love it. It honestly ranks right up there as one of my best investments ever.
It turns out the original “Three Musketeers” is actually quite funny
Do these come in large print?
@lucindalynne No, but if you order one, and pay me enough, I’ll transfer it to a DAT tape.
I purchased the files last summer, but see now that you have an app, which should be able to placehold, etc. Can the version I purchased be adapted to be used with the app?
@richferg
Yea for sure! Send us a line at our helpdesk and we’ll get you the app:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
Oh meh
Ordered, will keep me calm while driving long distances, perhaps tamping my urge to communicate my dissatisfaction with how others drive.
Coupon? What coupon!? Why didn’t I hear this before? Oh yeah, no audio! Wonder if these will play on my sync stereo.
I don’t see my earlier post, but I can attest to the fact that these are professionally recorded. Not students, volunteers, etc. It’s a lot of work to record one book.
go to gutenberg.org or librivox.org and download the titles you want for free. I’m sure that’s what they did here as they are all in the public domain. Too much money for an $8 flash drive.
@factotumgroup
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.
@factotumgroup
I have attempted to listen to terrible quality librivox narration, where the various narrators were barely endurable, and complete with dogs barking and phones ringing in the background.
I appreciate what librivox narrators do for the rest of us.
But in the case of audiobook narration, [a professional quality voice plus studio recording control] wins every time.
@f00l Listening to that lady read Alice for a few hours would make me want to claw my brain out. (Nothing personal, lady.)
Everyone’s talking about the deal and I’m just sitting here infuriated that I’ll have Olivia Newton John in my head for the rest of the day.
@grovberg By infuriated, I of course mean secretly delighted.
@grovberg …“Says what everyone is is thinking.”
I converted the PDF to a table so I could sort by author’s name. This was much more helpful to me. If you’d like to use it, feel free: Dropbox file you can download
/giphy harsh-phony-fact
/buy OK, I suppose with 15 hours commuting in the car every week I might enjoy this. 32K mono will drive me nuts though, I’m the kind of guy that signs up for a SiriusXM trial just so I can terminate and cite poor audio quality; That said, I’ll need to get the link to the higher quality ones and stick them on an SD card that my car’s deck will take
@caffeineguy It worked! Your order number is: harsh-cliched-school
/image harsh cliched school
I can’t wait for this to arrive so I can listen to books in the car. One of my grown kids can help me figure out how to use the damn thing.
@clarebear29
You have an Apple or Android phone/device? If so, the best thing to do is use our App (the instructions and code are on the back of the package) - which will easily let you download any/all the titles you want on your device. Then “hook up” your phone to your car stereo - the kids will easily show you how. What this does is also allows you to easily enjoy out of the car too!
@Ppublishers Hey Nic - I copied a few of these (from the previous sale’s key) onto my phone to listen to, but I find the pause/resume is all effed up.
To wit: Whenever I pause it, go do something, come back and press “Play” again, it backs up to some sort of previous hashmark, often tens of minutes earlier, and I cannot fast forward to where I actually was. “The Three Musketeers” was an excellent example of this. Dragging back and forth on the elapsed time bar was useless, taking me back and forth in the same-sized time chunks. I could not get to my actual stopping point.
I never ever ever have had this problem with mp3 files before, on this or any other player, even longer ones like radio shows. Is it a file format thing?
Otherwise (as I posted elsewhere) I love the living hell out of this product and it made a long long road trip very enjoyable!
@rprussell
Thanks a lot for the kind words first of all! Much appreciated. So i’m not just saying this…but I’ve never heard of this happening before. What phone are you using? And does this happen on other devices you have (if you’ve tried)? Do you want to try our new Apps to see if this solves your issue? Let me know - here to help my good man!
@Ppublishers It’s an HTC One M9, using whatever their built-in “Music” player is.
E.G. I just cranked up the Canterville Ghost, and forwarded it to 26minutes and change, and it leapt back to 18:25 before actually starting to play.
A similar - but not identical - thing with “Google Play Music” - I could drag it up to 38 minutes into the book, but when I hit “Pause” it jumps back to 25 minutes. Difference there is that once I play again, I could successfully drag it forward to 38 again. Wish I’d tried that on the road last week
WEIRD.
How do I get to the new APP? I would surely try it out, if for no other reason than to help nail this down.
@rprussell Sounds like the audio equivalent of a keyframe in a video file-- Most streaming formats are based on fixed snapshots, then a blob of deltas, so jumping in any direction requires first finding the keyframe and working forward from there.
@rprussell Actually it might be simpler than that-- it might be a block/buffer size setting in your player or when the MP3s were encoded. If they were encoded in Matroska MKA files, they could have added bookmarks for chapters very much like DVDs
@caffeineguy That occurred to me - but they don’t seem to be lined up with any sort of rational chapter break. I was wondering about the keyframe idea, but it’s seriously large breaks between them if that’s the case. Eesh.
@rprussell
drop us a line at the helpdesk and I’ll make sure you get the app installed properly at:
https://www.egolibrary.com/contact
@Ppublishers Hey! I looked at the back of the clamshell my USB came in, and it has a scratchoff thing for the apps… so I guess I got the latest version after all? I’ll try it tomorrow.
@rprussell Nice! Yea during the last sale they snuck in a few of the newer packs that just had come out but the vast majority were the old ones. If you need anything or otherwise be in touch! Thanks
Thanks a lot for the kind words first of all! Much appreciated. So i’m not just saying this…but I’ve never heard of this happening before. What phone are you using? And does this happen on other devices you have (if you’ve tried)? Do you want to try our new Apps to see if this solves your issue? Let me know - here to help my good man!
@Ppublishers woops…was meant to be a reply to @rprussell
It’s not ideological for me like it seems for some, but e-books are not for me, and I’m old enough that I bet I make it to the grave without ever reading one. I can understand what some people like about them. On the other hand, their strongest advocates tend to underestimate the virtues of the traditional lower-tech format, in my opinion.
@matthew You’ve never read a technical or owner’s manual online?
Ha, I meant to post this in the poll thread! So maybe the problem is I’m not great at reading.
@therealjrn I may have never read a technical or owner’s manual at all, not in the way I think of reading books.
/image obtuse coherent rattlesnake
/giphy obtuse coherent rattlesnake
/giphy crucial-feathery-chalk
@Ppublishers Have you ever thought of doing this for Spanish language classics too? Many of us took Spanish in high school and can read it but get completely lost whenever anybody actually speaks it because we don’t get enough practice listening to Spanish. I’ve been watching telenovelas in Spanish, but my wife says it’s making my accent sound more ghetto because the shows are all about drug traffickers.
@Neil long story short…yes, but so far not to great success. We do offer a Spanish model with books to read (both contemporary and Classics), but getting quality AudioBooks made in Spanish seems to be somewhat of a Herculean effort which we haven’t been able to sink our teeth in yet. It’s on the list though
Bought this last time and it’s pretty cool. The iPhone app is really handy if you don’t want to manually copy all of the files to your podcast/music/media player device.
I presume the Android app works as well too, but I can’t say I’ve used it.
@mrallen1 Thanks! Yea the Android app works nearly the same except you can chose any music player to play the tracks whereas with Apple you only have the once choice. But for most that’s minor/inconsequential.
Does the app have a speed control to speed up the playback of the track? My podcast app (Overcast) has that feature along with an option to reduce the little gaps of silence. I’m absolutely addicted to the feature. I even started speeding up the evening news on my dvr (TiVo) too.
@Neil Yes it does!
@Ppublishers OK, that did it. I placed the order even though I really wanted Spanish and my wife is a fan of some female classics like Jane Austin and Gone With the Wind (and Charles Dickens).
@Neil Terrific! Thanks and if you find the time later on (after having used it) we’d love to hear your honest feedback so drop us a line anytime. Thanks!
/image nosy textured leech
/giphy nosy textured leech
550 Audiobooks is a teensy bit misleading, since the vast majority of these are short stories or even short individual poems. Still, a lot of hours, I’m sure. But not for me. I like a printed text because I read faster than a voice can speak. And my commute is only 5 minutes, so I don’t need something to fill the hours in the car either. Plus, as a prof of 19C British lit, I’ve read most of these already.
@basketcase The point of audiobooks is that you can listen while driving, exercising, folding laundry, cleaning toilets, cooking, and all sorts of other activities. I would be surprised if many people plopped down in a comfy chair with a cup of coffee to listen to an audiobook.
TL;DR if i buy one and copy, is there any DRM on this thing?
/youtube drm on this thing
/giphy drm this thing
/image drm on this thing
/8ball drm on this thing?
Don’t count on it
@Yoda_Daenerys
NO DRM. We encourage sharing with friends/family. Of course not reselling (the recordings are proprietary) but by all means if you can spread a little audiobook love please do!
@Ppublishers hrrmphhhh, too late
@Yoda_Daenerys not for vmp’s
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
my bad
/buy
@kshannon1 It worked! Your order number is: influential-careless-silver
/image influential careless silver
I tried to buy this 3 hours ago at 9:15pm and its 11:16 now. How is it that i missed the opportunity to buy?
@Zeebers651 Meh changes over at 12am Eastern time (9pm Pacific).
@narfcake damn, I really wanted this deal.
@Zeebers651 Welcome to meh! One deal per each 24 hour period. There is a sister site called morningsave.com that you might want to monitor in case some overstock of this deal ends up there as it is wont to do occasionally.
@Zeebers651 check your math or your clock 9:15 + 3 hr = 11:16?
sadly, i missed the deal too, due to the passing of thyme
/giphy passing thyme
@Zeebers651 It’s already there.
https://morningsave.com/deals/ego-550-audiobooks-on-32gb-flash-drive-1
@sammydog01
@therealjrn what wa sthe price here vs. there? do they charge shipping? as some of you may know, i lost my V (actually threw it out)
@Yoda_Daenerys I don’t remember. I bought this deal before in August. Perhaps evaluate on what the price is now?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@therealjrn perhaps
@Yoda_Daenerys + shipping
@Yoda_Daenerys I think it’s $32 vs $28 on Meh. Shipping is $5 but $2 is the morningsave version of VMP so you can unlock free shipping for two bucks a month then cancel. That makes it $34 instead of $33.
If you had kept VMP it would have been 10% off with free shipping or $28 plus change.
@sammydog01 i’ve saved so much by not impulse buying, “cuz shipping is free” i appreciate the hints tho
@sammydog01 influential-joyous-contributor over on morningsave, let’s just hope that $2 isn’t the relapse drug…
/youtube relapse drug
/image relapse drug
/giphy drug relapse
/8ball relapse drug?
Very doubtful
@Yoda_Daenerys Cancel now!!!
I was going to order this and then I read the list of included books. There were a few titles that probably could be seen as offensive to some, particularly the Joseph Conrad novel that was included. Heart of Darkness is a far more well-known book than the one that was chosen, so I am not sure why it was not chosen instead.
@michaelgj2002
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@michaelgj2002 These are open source books- heart of Darkness is probably copyrighted.
@mflassy Do you have a question?
@sammydog01 I still think the choice of books by this author did not need to be included in this list.
@michaelgj2002
When I wrote that, it was before you edited your comment to include your 3rd sentence.
I only noticed this after the editing period, so I did not revise it to two question marks.
@michaelgj2002 I think you should buy this so you can burn it in the town square.
@therealjrn
/giphy book burning
@sammydog01 At least now I know where to start listening!
Ok, this is the ego version. When does the id version come out?
@eeterrific Nice!