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This is so cool! I've installed it on my PC and my PocketPC - you can get the computer to read you stories, in the form of eBooks! If you don't mind the somewhat robotic voice (which you can alter and change) it's not bad actually! Any else used this? |
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Sounds good... how does it work? |
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holy shit, that's sick... |
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not to mention how annoying that must be for everyone else around |
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Hey Chris, how big is the program? I had a look on Kazaa and the files are about 5mb.. |
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About 3.8 Mb from www.microsoft.com/reader |
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I had some eBooks on the CD that came with my iPaq, such as Tarzan, Peter Pan, 80 Days around the World, Huckleberry Finn....and a few more. They're about 300KB each... |
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Aha! Thank you... I shall try this out now |
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I used to think you guys were cool... |
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In Reader's settings you need to turn off the Verbosity option, otherwise it'll read the punctuation. Which is comma very annoying full stop. :) |
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When you haven't got the time of day to read a book (like me) what better way, than to get someone to read it to you, whilst you do something else! |
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heheh, an imbecille-friendly piece of software, innit... |
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Right, got it, installed it, activated it... what do I do now? What files do I use with it? |
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Its quite good! |
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You need to do a search for some eBooks Jarworski! I can email you some of the ones I have later on if you want! The files are usually zipped, but when unzipped the extention is .LIT |
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Yeah, yeah, like for five year olds. Now they even don't have to learn to read... |
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I've come home for lunch at the moment, when I go back to work in half-hour I'll send you an email with one or two. I've left my Compaq CD on my desk, in my laptop. :( |
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I haven't got time for reading - its such a waste of time! ;) This is a more efficient means of absorbing info! :) |
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Get some samples from here in the meantime .... http://www.topicsites.com/ebooks/free-pocket-pc-downloads.h tm |
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I've been having a look around for some free ones... I'll have a cod here now =oD |
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Grrr....these books aren't free! The membership is $30 on each site! |
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Chris: I won't have any of this. No time for reading? Then make time!!! That is if you value reading at all. Reading is not only absorbing information, it includes contemplation and transcendence, which, of course may be included in listening too, but, as you say, you want to do other things while listening to an ebook being read, so, in a way you're not really doing justice to the book in question. |
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I do enough reading here!! Reading posts, its just a matter of time before I get my computer to read these to me!! Hehehee!! 'Computer: Tell Meho to fuck off!!' :) |
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Ouch. |
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Sorry! |
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I read a lot. It's nice. |
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kidding |
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So time consuming though! |
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I know....hehehhee! |
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yeah...readers pretty cool...haven't used the voice option yet (didn't even know it was there)... Probably won't use the text reading option as I like to concentrate on text when I read it...perhaps something quiet in the backg musicwise....but you kinda owe it to the author to devote some mindtime to their work.... but Jedi Chris...what's all this, "I haven't got enough time for reading?"...slow down, use the force...whats the hurry?... so easy to whip thru a book quickly and come out the end none the wiser... I manage to read at least 2 books a week...probably more most of the time...my house is like a library tho; books everywhere... |
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agree so much with meho....if you ain't got time to do a book justice then why bother reading... |
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i knew somebody would back my reasonable and honest opinion. |
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jesus? |
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eh? Me not jesus, me lucifer |
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I don't tend to read books at all - I'd rather spend two hours watching a film or programme on TV. I know that books contain so much more detail, but I have a very short attention span..... |
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Hmm... thanks for those files Chris, but I canna get the reader to start talking... I d/led the text to speech software, but... nothing! |
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