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Sep. 25th, 2007 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2A great Terry Pratchett quote:
"Dwarves are very argumentative, Sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree...."
Pratchett's books are filled with lines like that, of course. ^_^ I've been listening to The Fifth Elephant, after downloading it from Audible.com. Their subscription service entitles you to one free download a month, and they have all of the older Pratchett books which cost anywhere from $50 to $90 if you wanted to buy them on cd (or even, in some cases, if you just wanted to buy a digital download at the normal price).
Setting everything up with Audible.com was a bit tricky. I was wary of telling it that I had an iPod, because I wanted to be able to easily burn my book onto cd. I don't feel like I own it if I don't have it on cd, and this is more of an investment than a 99 cent song from iTunes. I told it I didn't have an mp3 player and wanted to listen on cd, which meant I had to download their special player, which meant that if I wanted to burn to cd I had to download a copy of Nero (trial version). I'm wary of Nero. In my experience it does everything I'd ever want it to do but is very particular about a lot of things. I've also found that the version I downloaded likes to run an indexing program in the background which hogs system resources, and if I shut it down it will eventually start up again on its own.
However, in any case I did get my book downloaded and transferred to cd, and I've been listening to it at work. Fun stuff as always. ^_^
"Dwarves are very argumentative, Sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree...."
Pratchett's books are filled with lines like that, of course. ^_^ I've been listening to The Fifth Elephant, after downloading it from Audible.com. Their subscription service entitles you to one free download a month, and they have all of the older Pratchett books which cost anywhere from $50 to $90 if you wanted to buy them on cd (or even, in some cases, if you just wanted to buy a digital download at the normal price).
Setting everything up with Audible.com was a bit tricky. I was wary of telling it that I had an iPod, because I wanted to be able to easily burn my book onto cd. I don't feel like I own it if I don't have it on cd, and this is more of an investment than a 99 cent song from iTunes. I told it I didn't have an mp3 player and wanted to listen on cd, which meant I had to download their special player, which meant that if I wanted to burn to cd I had to download a copy of Nero (trial version). I'm wary of Nero. In my experience it does everything I'd ever want it to do but is very particular about a lot of things. I've also found that the version I downloaded likes to run an indexing program in the background which hogs system resources, and if I shut it down it will eventually start up again on its own.
However, in any case I did get my book downloaded and transferred to cd, and I've been listening to it at work. Fun stuff as always. ^_^
