Audiobook players

[Doug]

On 03/01/2011 12:48 AM, drew einhorn wrote:
> I would like a pair of them that play nice with each other.  I'd like 
> to be able to listen on any device supported by ubuntu or android. 
>  Then easily create a placemark, and resume listening at the same 
> place on any other supported device.  The abilities to easily 
> reposition a placemark, name place marks, save place marks, and 
> restore placemarks would be icing on the cake.
>
> -- 
> Drew Einhorn
>
> "You can see a lot by just looking."
>   --  Yogi Berra
After composing a long message, I just realized that the OP was referring
not to Kindle-type books, but audio books.  These seem to be available on
CDs, so it should be fairly easy to copy them onto a computer hard drive
if desired,or to another CD. (In earlier times, they were available on 
cassettes.)
I still don't see why you would need more than  one device to "read" one,
and anyone with a CD player or cassette deck should be able to
listen to the text.  Also, I understand that speech-to-text algorithms have
improved greatly over the past few years, (altho I do not know if any of 
the
good systems are available in Linux format,) so copying excerpts to use
in any sort of dissertation should be possible.

As to place-holding, some of the media programs have timing counters
built in, as do some cassette players, so you could presumably go to, say,
27 minutes, 34 seconds, and find the place you recently left.

I may be missing something here. . . .

--doug

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