{"id":3966,"date":"2004-04-07T00:19:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2004-04-07T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:19:59","slug":"collaborative_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Audio Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Adam wrote about the idea of collaborating to create audio books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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collaborative audio books<\/a>
About a week and a half ago I stumbled onto AKMA’s brilliant idea<\/a> to create an audio-book version of Lawrence Lessig’s new book “Free Culture<\/a>“. Bloggers quickly signed up to the collaborative by claiming chapters to read in the posting’s comments.<\/p>\n

I arrived a bit late to the party, so I didn’t get to read a chapter, although there is plenty of room for alternative voices and reads, but that’s for later.<\/p>\n

I’m a big believer in audio books and ‘read’ this way frequently. I just finished Dan Brown’s ‘The DaVinci Code<\/a>‘ in about 2 week’s time of travelling to my morning radio show whilst listeing in the car. I use my iPod and the iTrip<\/a>, a snap-on fm-transmitter, so I can enjoy the reading on my car’s stereo. It’s also much safer.<\/p>\n

I listen to lots of stuff on my iPod besides music and audio books. There are interviews<\/a> and archives of old radio shows. There’s even an audio bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been listening to audio books a bit more lately now that I’m driving up and back to Boston all the time. It can be a nice way to make the almost two hour drive go by quickly. I just finished the second Dark Tower book and have started in on Sarah Vowell’s The Partly Cloudy Patriot<\/a>. But there are some books that aren’t in audio format that I wish were. Adam brings up the point that there are lots of books in Project Gutenberg<\/a> that would provide a good starting point (specifically mentioning the Tom Swift books<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Adam has some ideas about distributing the books that are recorded, but I’ve been thinking about this from another direction. Having a site for managing and tracking what books are being worked on. A page where users can register and then sign up for chapters of books and upload them when done. I have some other related ideas of letting people rate readers and chapters of books, since more than one person might upload a chapter. I wish I was going to be in town for BloggerCon II<\/a> so I’d have a chance to chat about this with him, but I’ll be stuck down in Hartford. I may just start coding up something for some php practice in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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