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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2319702

Davos best character, imho.

Start here to begin reading the books (while you listen to this, of course).

Grab a PDF of A Game of Thrones and start. Move on to A Clash of Kings and so on and so forth.

See my other posts here and then here.

Ciao!

@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2319326

The best audiobook version of A Song of Ice and Fire.

Better than Roy Dotrice's version, imho.

You can start here.

I suggest reading along with the actual book.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2205934

Reek, reek, it rhymes with freak...

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2190427

Starting this up right now.

Also, you can start listening from A Game Of Thrones onward right over here.

@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net

Don't forget to read Dunk & Egg.

I don't know whether or not I should watch House of the Dragon. I hated the Game of Thrones TV show (much prefer the books) and I'm afraid that it will be just as bad (and just as overrated).

Also:

DavidReadsAsoiaf (unofficial narrator) > Roy Detroyce (official narrator for A Song of Ice and Fire)

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2156473

The Widlings bend the knee to Stannis Baratheon.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2129517

I really, really suggest this audio-book version of A Song of Ice and Fire over Roy Dotrice's official version (which sucks, btw).

Listen to this version.

Not to the official version.

Dewit, if you like A Song of Ice and Fire.

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Got a buddy that'll only listen to audiobooks. Heard an interview with the author on millennial are killing capitalism sounded good. Anyone have it?

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I know there are programs around (Libation etc) that let me download my Audible library. Is there a FOSS program that lets me down load my Chirp library?

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Starting September listening list :-)

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August listening list :-)

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Over the last year or so, Overdrive has been sunsetting their clients and pushing people to use the Libby web app leaving folks with older mp3 players, people who do a lot of offline listening, and people who just don’t like the Libby interface without a way to listen. I wrote a Firefox extension that lets you download the mp3s just like the old desktop clients used to do and it even will optionally parse the chapters for you. Hope someone finds it useful!

https://github.com/bookbonobo/libby-download-extension

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Elder Race (4.14 : 12,718)

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself).

The Road to Roswell (3.91 : 1005)

When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.

Light Bringer / Red Rising #6 (4.59 : 510)

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

Implacable / Outlands #3 (4.51 : 388)

As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.

Space Raideres / Space Raiders #1 (4.33 : 344)

After years of searching, Nathan Briggs is finally on the verge of making an incredible discovery. Unfortunately, the aliens have other plans. When Nathan stops a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim, he gets more than he bargained for and sets into motion events that will change his life forever. They told him he should’ve run away, and maybe they were right. Nathan is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Aliens are real. He has something they need, and they’re not the only ones hunting for it.

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Joshua Gayou's Commune, Book 2 read by R.C. Bray contains a character called Gibbs. Hands down the best character I've heard brought to life by a Narrator.

Honestly I don't like the book that much. Firstly there's not much story, it's just the author rolling out their idea of a subsistence commune in a narrative, and I suspect the author and I have vastly different ideological views.

... but Gibbs made it worth listening to. An ex marine with a penchant for colourful language. Bray and Gayou really created something special.

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This is a fan made audiobook and is as described. The immersive soundscape experience involves background sounds, chatter, music and more. It's genuinely a great peice of work especially for an enthusiast's effort. It may be removed by youtube soon, so here is an alternative link: https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497

Dive into Harry’s second year at Hogwarts with an immersive soundscape audio experience of the story by J.K Rowling - for those who like the movies, games and books, and want a little of both!

Narration, voices and edit by me. Music by John Williams, Jeremy Soule, J Scott Rakozy, Chuck E. Myers, Peter Murray and special thanks to Brigid Kaelin for her amazing musical saw orchestra! You can find her channel here - / @brigidkaelin

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I'm posting here because I was surprised that these older audiobooks are available to stream. Of course, only people with the library can access them. But they must have already been part of the physical CD catalogue. I'm assuming they're on CDs because they're old and sound quality is definitely not modern.

So perhaps staff uploaded them to their cloud service.

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Or 2022, doesn't matter

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So this is nice! Today I discovered that I can download M4B files from my Libro FM library instead of zipped MP3 files and now I wish this was the default. I like having structural elements in one file rather than having a folder comprised of nearly 80 tracks. It makes it easy to trance for as well! #Audiobooks #LibroFM @audiobooks@lemmy.ml @audiobooks@a.gup.pe @bookstodon

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There used to be a number of posts in this community, one of which I replied to, but they have all disappeared. Why did this happen?

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Starting the July listening list :-)

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So in the past few months I’ve consumed three body trilogy, the bobiverse, expanse series, dogs of war (meh), quantum earth x2 (meh) and project hail Mary. I really enjoyed most of these, with dark Forest being my favourite read lately. What should be in my reading list next, as I get close to the end of the expanse books?

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Set to release in August. I'm pretty excited to hear the story he wrote as motivation for his character's backstory in his own voice. I think DS9's streaming resurgance and rediscovery may have triggered renewed interest in the character and the book.

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Time for a top 5 list :-)

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I've had a few audiobooks over the years that have a mistake here and there, but at the moment I'm going through The Mahabharata - Volume 1 read by Gaurav Marwa and it's chock full of misread lines and words. Often he'll reread a sentence once or twice after making a mistake and it's all kept in the book.

Doesn't help that his reading is really dry. I'd honestly take some AI voice reading it.

Has anyone else come across some really poorly edited (or not edited) books that kept in mistakes?

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