Comments | jeriendhal: So I'm listening to the Audible edition of RAH's "The Rolling Stones"

jeriendhal

So I'm listening to the Audible edition of RAH's "The Rolling Stones"

Aug 10, 2010 12:29

And to my delight I've found that they recorded it with a full cast + narrator, a step up even from the excellent Readers Chair version of LMB's Vorkosigan books, which featured two readers taking on the male and female parts respectively. Given that The Rolling Stones has probably the snappiest dialog of any of his novels, juvenile or otherwise, ( Read more... )

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chewipaka August 10 2010, 16:43:07 UTC

It's the same with Baltimore, Arlington, and Fairfax county libraries. All of them limit how many customers can download an audio book at a time.

ankewehner August 10 2010, 18:17:29 UTC

Look on the bright side: You CAN download audiobooks, rather than going to the library and getting the CD(s).

jeriendhal August 10 2010, 19:04:34 UTC

Peta made the same comment more-or-less when I mentioned the library's download service to her.

allah_sulu August 10 2010, 20:23:13 UTC

Probably a licensing issue with the audiobook publishers.

Almost certainly a licensing issue. I remember working in an office many years ago where the application software (WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.) was installed on the network but only had a limited number of licenses... So after that number was hit, anyone else who tried to run the program got an error and had to wait for someone else to relinquish it.

(It took me very little time to figure out how to work around that.)

mmegaera August 11 2010, 00:43:47 UTC

Speaking as a former public librarian, definitely a licensing issue. Still, it's better than nothing...