Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#Audiobooks
blurb
kaysworld1
post image
Avanders Woo hoo congrats! 🎊 19h
28 likes1 comment
blurb
ElizaMarie
post image

#AudioBooks are so needed! I am fortunate to be able to engage in them! I recall that years ago, I had a particularly difficult time with them. And now --- perfect for:

#AudioCommute
#AudioChores
#AudioReSet

#OctoberReCap

thegirlwiththelibrarybag I never thought I had the concentration for them and then I discovered that you can play around with the speed and I have not looked back ☺️ they‘ve gotten me through some pretty dull work days. 4w
ElizaMarie @thegirlwiththelibrarybag - YES! I had to up the speed, and now it's great! I eased into AudioBooks by doing podcasts first. Felt like someoen was “talking to me“ or “telling me a story“. 4w
Cuilin Up the speed for chores, slow it down to sleep at night 👌 ❤️ #audiobooking 4w
19 likes3 comments
review
JenlovesJT47
post image
Pickpick

Phryne flies Gypsy
Moth in search of kidnapped child —
solves murder along the way.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #haikubookreview #PhryneFisher #audiobooks #cozymysteries

41 likes3 comments
blurb
kaysworld1
Red, White and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
post image

Crime scenes was a great book 5 🌟
Red, White and Royal Blue is a very funny book I'm currently reading 📚

#Cambodia
#queerbooks
#reading
#audiobooks

27 likes1 stack add
review
kaysworld1
Coast Guard Rescue One | Natalie Debrabandere
post image
Pickpick

Its been a while since i read a queer book this is a gentle lesbian book. This book was better than expected, great story, a bit over descriptive in area's but over all I enjoyed it a lot.
The story didn't have a happy ever after ending which I did like. 4 🌟

#queerbooks
#audiobooks
#Cambodia
#readingontheroad

review
SomedayAlmost
post image
Pickpick

A creepy, Satanic short horror listen that kept me under its spell. Strong voice. Stronger demon. Well narrated. it‘s a hard look at one NY professional woman‘s possession & bloody unraveling. #horrorfiction #demons #murderouswomen #audiobooks

blurb
CSeydel
post image
Librarybelle 😔 4mo
DGRachel Absolutely not. 🤬 4mo
julesG WTAF??? 4mo
See All 16 Comments
CindyMyLifeIsLit So they‘ve named the AI? 🙄 4mo
Christine ☹️ 4mo
Deblovestoread Ugh! 😣 4mo
Leniverse 😦 Nope, nopety nope 😒 4mo
Meshell1313 Whaaa???? That‘s insane. 4mo
KathyWheeler They gave the synthesized voice a name?! I won‘t listen to these. (edited) 4mo
GingerAntics I‘m intrigued to know what this sounds like… but I won‘t listen to an entire audiobook of it. @KathyWheeler synthesised voices have had names for a long time. I don‘t know how to look it up on android, but on iPhone you can choose which voice is “Siri.” There is the “Siri” voice, then “David,” “Oliver”… it depends on what accent you want it to speak in and if you want it to be male or female as to what the names are. I have mine set to Oliver. 4mo
GingerAntics @KathyWheeler Oliver is a lovely sounding British bloke! Anytime I use Siri (which is rarely) people always ask what it is. He has a very pleasant voice. I‘ve even had me read books in the past. I wouldn‘t pay for an audiobook made with one (even Oliver) though. That‘s ridiculous. There are plenty of voice actors looking for work to get a real person. 4mo
CSeydel @GingerAntics Exactly. Most of us are also familiar with “Alexa”, Amazon‘s voice-activated AI assistant (although my family uses “Echo” as our wake word). Funny, I use the British male voice for Siri too, but I never knew he had a different name. He still goes by Siri on my (old) phone. Anyway, this audiobook is “free” - that is, included in my Spotify subscription - and I‘m assuming it‘s a book that wouldn‘t have an audio version otherwise. 4mo
CSeydel (Cont‘d) … but it‘s the camel‘s nose, isn‘t it? If people get used to AI audiobook narrators, it‘s inevitable that they‘ll expand to mainstream books that would ordinarily hire a professional narrator. 4mo
GingerAntics @CSeydel that‘s true… it‘s a slippery slope. I went and checked… the names have apparently gone away. Depending on what iOS your phone is running, it might still have names. I don‘t think it really matters either way. It‘s a slippery slope we need to be careful of. 4mo
KathyWheeler @GingerAntics I know that about Siri and Alexa. To me, that‘s different than giving an audiobook synthesized voice a name. I don‘t really know why . Maybe because I‘m not listening to something long and involved with them, so I don‘t care. But it almost feels like with naming virtual voices, the companies are trying to humanize them to make it more acceptable. I heard some books using those voices and haven‘t liked one yet. 4mo
GingerAntics @KathyWheeler that is a fair point. 4mo
37 likes16 comments
blurb
kaysworld1
post image

Currently reading Unwell Womanby Elinor Cleghorn

Finally got my hands on it and back into my female authors.
I am starting to get into my reading again. Thanks to audio book's

#audiobooks
#femaleauthors
#Cambodiabound
#unwellwoman
#booksaremyworld
#readingontheroad

32 likes1 stack add
blurb
AroundTheBookWorld
The Collide | Kimberly McCreight
post image
mcctrish Depends - every book has its purpose 5mo
16 likes1 comment
blurb
kaysworld1
Audiobooks on the Go | Audiofile, Robin Whitten
post image

I finally caved and started audible.
I have missed audio books ever since borrow box stopped working.
It's a bit interesting but not in a good way although I've signed up it keeps asking me to to join.

Anyway I've got it now and I have found some good book's 👍

#audible
#audiobooks
#booksontheroad
#readingislife

monalyisha Some Audible exclusives I‘ve loved are Jodi Taylor‘s Chronicles of St. Mary‘s series, starting with the tagged. 5mo
monalyisha And Mark Lawrence‘s Book of the Ancestor series, starting with the tagged. 5mo
monalyisha I don‘t know if they‘re up your alley…but if you‘re doing Audible already (which I am, too, regrettably), you can‘t get them anywhere else! 5mo
kaysworld1 @monalyisha I'll look into them thank you 😊 🙏 5mo
23 likes4 comments