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valhalla360
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We use epub books and a phone app that reads them out loud.
"voice aloud reader" (no affiliation and there are lots of other similar apps available)
We had to play a bit with the voice selection to get one we like (we picked a light British accent in a woman's voice).
We then connect it to the stereo with the 3.5mm input but you could bluetooth it also.
It's not perfect but it's surprisingly good. Occasionally, it will put the emphasis on the wrong word but really very good.
It's nice because it's the rare book that you can't find in epub format as opposed to true audio books that someone has read.
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ericosmith
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Not sure why the separate usb stick or mp3 player. Why not just load them on your phone?
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toedtoes
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Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
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valhalla360
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toedtoes wrote:Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
An epub file is pretty small. If that eats up the last of your data on the phone, you already need to clean things up.
But if you just want to be obstinate about it, get a $25 burner phone to leave in the truck as your book reader.
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wildtoad
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Unless you have a boatload of audio CD’s that you want to read or reread do as many above have suggested get an iPod, or similar device and download books from various sources. If you choose the iPod route may as well as get an iPhone.
Memory on device can be managed by removing books after being read. Documents can be offloaded to the cloud and restored when needed - automatically. Same with pictures. CD’s and DVD’ are going the way of VHS tapes.
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fj12ryder
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valhalla360 wrote:toedtoes wrote:Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
An epub file is pretty small. If that eats up the last of your data on the phone, you already need to clean things up.
But if you just want to be obstinate about it, get a $25 burner phone to leave in the truck as your book reader. An epub file may be small, but an actual audiobook is not. Easily 300-400 meg per book, and some books will be over a gig.
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valhalla360
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fj12ryder wrote:valhalla360 wrote:toedtoes wrote:Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
An epub file is pretty small. If that eats up the last of your data on the phone, you already need to clean things up.
But if you just want to be obstinate about it, get a $25 burner phone to leave in the truck as your book reader. An epub file may be small, but an actual audiobook is not. Easily 300-400 meg per book, and some books will be over a gig.
One of the reasons we like the epub with a reader app over a giant audio file.
Of course, it's probably like the guy who goes on about 4k definition on a 25inch TV over 1080. A human actually reading it does add a little but generally very little.
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Gdetrailer
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valhalla360 wrote:fj12ryder wrote:valhalla360 wrote:toedtoes wrote:Because not everybody has or wants a phone that can hold a bunch of media. Or the phone is filled with documents and/or music and/or photos and there isn't any extra room for books.
An epub file is pretty small. If that eats up the last of your data on the phone, you already need to clean things up.
But if you just want to be obstinate about it, get a $25 burner phone to leave in the truck as your book reader. An epub file may be small, but an actual audiobook is not. Easily 300-400 meg per book, and some books will be over a gig.
One of the reasons we like the epub with a reader app over a giant audio file.
Of course, it's probably like the guy who goes on about 4k definition on a 25inch TV over 1080. A human actually reading it does add a little but generally very little.
Actually in a lot of cases, a "human" reading and enunciating every word correctly adding emphasis at the proper places can and does make a big difference.. The emphasis brings the words to life a lot like punctuation can change the meaning.
Sort of like..
Let's eat Grandpa
Let's eat, Grandpa
Computer generated voices while they have substantially improved just are not able to make the words written on a page come to life as the author of the book intended.. Sometimes the computer generated voice stumbles and cannot pronounce a word, name, city and resorts to saying each letter until the next word.
NOAA radio broadcasts are a fine example of this, they replaced real humans reading and recording the forecast and weather info some 20 yrs ago.. There still are local towns and cities to me that are mispronounced to this day..
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Gdetrailer
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ericosmith wrote:Not sure why the separate usb stick or mp3 player. Why not just load them on your phone?
Phone storage memory is pretty limited compared to other means, ties up what storage space you have, ties up the phone for non phone use. Typical modern Android phones will have 16GB, 32GB, 64 GB of shared storage (OS and APPs share part and your data shares the other part).
The more APPs you install, the less space left for data files like music and photos and the reverse is true. Many phones do not have additional storage expansion like a micro SD card reader and the newer ones that do have it, you have to use a little eject pin which isn't very handy and when ejecting the SD card you are supposed to turn off the phone first before ejecting or risk losing data.
Using external USB flash drives means your not "sharing" space with non music stuff, you have unlimited space for your music library. Run out of space, expand your library to a second, third, fourth, fifth and so on USB drive. Your not tying up your phone for non phone use either. You can just leave the USB flash drive plugged into the USB port in your vehicle and each time you start the vehicle it picks back up right were you stopped.
USB flash drives are dirt cheap compared to your cellphone or even a dedicated MP3 player.. 32GB USB flash drive can be bought for about $8, I don't know where you can buy a cellphone or portable MP3 player for $8, even a burner Tracphone is going to cost you $30 and you will get a refurbished 20 yr old phone with 16GB of shared space (yes, I HAVE gone through a lot of those junk cheap Tracphones over the yrs).
I leave my flash drive plugged in all the time, I buy the little low profile drives so they don't stick out.
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No wires, no pairing, no charging a additional device and as a bonus, I control what song is playing from my radio touch screen or from my steering wheel buttons.
But I guess, some folks like to make this much harder than it is ![[emoticon]](http://www.rv.net/sharedcontent/cfb/images/rolleyes.gif "rolleyes") ![[emoticon]](http://www.rv.net/sharedcontent/cfb/images/scratchead.gif "scratchead")
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ReneeG
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I listen to audiobooks all the time and use to take along a portable CD player, but now I download audio books using my library card from their online library using the Libby app. It's the best thing!
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