First, it would be wonderful if you attended Readercon! The Burlington Marriot is very receptive to access issues, and I always have alovely time there (though they were doing some renovating this year which caused horrible noises in the wing wheremy room was at way too early an hour, 8:30).
I have begun reading more audiobooks now that I have a Booksense. I tend to have two categories of audiobooks: those which involve a culture or dialect which I don't want tog et mangled by TTS and OCR--The Book of Night Women, The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende--or paranormal romance/urban fantasy, which I am unlikely to read more than once. I also get the occasoinal audiobook just because I want it *now* and don't want to have to wait to scan it: Holly Black's _The White Cat_, also _The Blind Contessa's Flying Machine_.
The rule about having the narrator's interpretation interfere with the text is happening ont he latest urban fantasy I just downloaded, _A Local Habitation_, read by an author who was at Readercon, Mary something Robineau? Perhaps the text has lots of itacized empahsized words, but hearing it spoken is making me crazy.
Re Singh: my memory is extremely faulty, and the panel was so busy, I nat have been mistaken about Singh having an entire novel coming about about the green alien physicist. The writers weren't always clear on which book they were talking about, past or upcoming publication, but it did sound like all of the writers had new books coming out soon.Check the Readercon link I gave for their bios/bibliographies, or just e-mail her--all of these writers sounded as if they would appreciate hearing from fans of their books.
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Date: 2010-07-14 11:58 am (UTC)I have begun reading more audiobooks now that I have a Booksense. I tend to have two categories of audiobooks: those which involve a culture or dialect which I don't want tog et mangled by TTS and OCR--The Book of Night Women, The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende--or paranormal romance/urban fantasy, which I am unlikely to read more than once. I also get the occasoinal audiobook just because I want it *now* and don't want to have to wait to scan it: Holly Black's _The White Cat_, also _The Blind Contessa's Flying Machine_.
The rule about having the narrator's interpretation interfere with the text is happening ont he latest urban fantasy I just downloaded, _A Local Habitation_, read by an author who was at Readercon, Mary something Robineau? Perhaps the text has lots of itacized empahsized words, but hearing it spoken is making me crazy.
Re Singh: my memory is extremely faulty, and the panel was so busy, I nat have been mistaken about Singh having an entire novel coming about about the green alien physicist. The writers weren't always clear on which book they were talking about, past or upcoming publication, but it did sound like all of the writers had new books coming out soon.Check the Readercon link I gave for their bios/bibliographies, or just e-mail her--all of these writers sounded as if they would appreciate hearing from fans of their books.
Must have decaf now.