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kerravonsenHere's a summary of my current audiobook/audioplay/podfic collection. As you will see, the actual Podfic makes only a small proportion of it.
I've got things set up so that things are copied onto microSD cards in groupings, so I can plug the card into my MP3 player and swap them over depending on what I want to listen to.
Drama:
Various professional audio-books and Big Finish adventures (mostly Doctor Who, but includes all the Harry Potter audiobooks). There are still CDs I need to rip for this, such as the Tomorrow People and Sapphire & Steel ones I haven't listened to yet. That will probably need an additional card to put them on.
(1 32G card)
Free Books:
Audio-books made by lovely volunteers at Gutenberg and Librivox. This is an ever-increasing collection, as I can only download so many books at a time. 8-) Currently includes a selection of Jane Austen, the Little Women series, a good chunk of the Oz books, Jane Eyre, a couple of Burroughs' Mars books, Chaucer, Cervantes, Spenser's The Faerie Queen, The Odyssey... Next on the list to download is some Sherlock Holmes. 8-) More cards will be needed for this too.
(4 x 8G cards)
Podfic:
Podfic I've managed to download from various places (jinjurly, hufflehugs, amplificathon etc).
Mostly Harry Potter and Doctor Who at the moment.
(1 x 8G card, but only about half filled)
Text-to-Speech:
Various pieces of fanfic which I've run a text-to-speech program over to generate podfic. This has undergone a lot of fine tuning (of course, being me, I wrote a script). I managed to find a Festival voice which isn't too horrible, though of course it still has rather odd mispronunciations every now and then ("reading" is "redding" for example). It can also be difficult to figure out who is speaking in dialogue because of course the voice doesn't have any variation or dramatic expression. But it isn't too bad. (So, of course, I'm not going to complain about ANY human-read works(*), because they are all going to be better than this.) I'm using this to listen to particularly long fic that I've been a bit daunted by; somehow I find it easier to listen to really long stories than to read them (maybe because that's how I experienced The Lord of the Rings).
I usually do crochet while I'm listening to these.
Stories I've listened to via this method include "The Twenty", "In Shining Armour", and "Murder, Magic, Mayhem and Madness" (all HP).
(3 x 16 G cards)
Bible:
The bible (KJV and NKJV) downloaded from a site which went to the effort of making free audiobooks of it.
(1 x 8G card, but the card is only half filled)
(*) One exception: for some reason, a lot of recordings of the Bible are done in sing-song voices which drain the meaning out of the text. I really don't know why they do that.
I've got things set up so that things are copied onto microSD cards in groupings, so I can plug the card into my MP3 player and swap them over depending on what I want to listen to.
Drama:
Various professional audio-books and Big Finish adventures (mostly Doctor Who, but includes all the Harry Potter audiobooks). There are still CDs I need to rip for this, such as the Tomorrow People and Sapphire & Steel ones I haven't listened to yet. That will probably need an additional card to put them on.
(1 32G card)
Free Books:
Audio-books made by lovely volunteers at Gutenberg and Librivox. This is an ever-increasing collection, as I can only download so many books at a time. 8-) Currently includes a selection of Jane Austen, the Little Women series, a good chunk of the Oz books, Jane Eyre, a couple of Burroughs' Mars books, Chaucer, Cervantes, Spenser's The Faerie Queen, The Odyssey... Next on the list to download is some Sherlock Holmes. 8-) More cards will be needed for this too.
(4 x 8G cards)
Podfic:
Podfic I've managed to download from various places (jinjurly, hufflehugs, amplificathon etc).
Mostly Harry Potter and Doctor Who at the moment.
(1 x 8G card, but only about half filled)
Text-to-Speech:
Various pieces of fanfic which I've run a text-to-speech program over to generate podfic. This has undergone a lot of fine tuning (of course, being me, I wrote a script). I managed to find a Festival voice which isn't too horrible, though of course it still has rather odd mispronunciations every now and then ("reading" is "redding" for example). It can also be difficult to figure out who is speaking in dialogue because of course the voice doesn't have any variation or dramatic expression. But it isn't too bad. (So, of course, I'm not going to complain about ANY human-read works(*), because they are all going to be better than this.) I'm using this to listen to particularly long fic that I've been a bit daunted by; somehow I find it easier to listen to really long stories than to read them (maybe because that's how I experienced The Lord of the Rings).
I usually do crochet while I'm listening to these.
Stories I've listened to via this method include "The Twenty", "In Shining Armour", and "Murder, Magic, Mayhem and Madness" (all HP).
(3 x 16 G cards)
Bible:
The bible (KJV and NKJV) downloaded from a site which went to the effort of making free audiobooks of it.
(1 x 8G card, but the card is only half filled)
(*) One exception: for some reason, a lot of recordings of the Bible are done in sing-song voices which drain the meaning out of the text. I really don't know why they do that.
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