I posted earlier on the advantages of incorporating audiobooks into your study methods. One of the main problems I desribed was that there was poor selection with regards to audiobooks and particularly with regard to higher level subjects. I've recently found a way around this that makes using audiobooks even more of an obvious decision for me. I've started using text to speech conversion to make audiobooks from ebooks. The inspiration was from wedrifid.
Here is a sample of the best TTS voice I have been able to find. This method produces suprisingly high quality audiobooks with suprisingly little effort.
I can get through around 2 - 5 books a day by listening to audiobooks.
I've been doing this since November last year and recommend it.
My list of fully listened books has 109 entries now. I've found that an important thing in determining whether a book works well in text-to-speech form is how much of it you can miss and still understand what's going on, or, how dense it is. Genre-wise, narrative or journalistic nonfiction and memoirs make especially good listening; most popular nonfiction works decently; history and fiction are pretty hard; and scholarly and technical writing are pretty much impossible.
A lot of writing on the...
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