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I've just started the Luminosity series. Reading a whole 30 chapters online was slightly daunting so I'm experimenting with listening to it in audio format so I can listen to it at the gym, etc. I found a suitable high quality voice that sounds like a young female. The 'Daniel' voice I had just sounded too bizarre reading a female first person narrative.
Once I'm finished with Luminosity I may try listening to some of Eliezer's sequences - the non illustrated ones obviously!
Some of the notebook portions may not come through properly in audio - I'm thinking particularly of a bit with strikethroughs in chapter 3, which the ff.net version doesn't even have because they don't allow strikethrough and I had to rewrite the section. So any bits that don't sound like complete sentences are likely due to that.
Ahh, that explains why I had no problems with chapter three then. I built my playlist by using a FanFiction.net scraper that presented the entire story thus far in a text file, split it into numbered files using the "##" chapter delimiter and then bulk converted the 30 text files into mp3s.
That's an elegantly constructed website.
I just noticed you have released chapter 31 too. (Perhaps consider creating a shortened version of the title for the FF.net version btw. :: Title too long ::)
Thanks :D On my to-do list, after I have buffers in place for all my works (hahahaha), is to code a black-text-on-white version that people can switch to, so there will be fewer objections to its use, because I really really hate ff.net.
I typed "title too long" in there on purpose; it's not an automatic insertion. I guess I could truncate it, but it's just so infuriating that I have to do things like that in order to play nice with the website. Hate hate hate.
FWIW, I prefer white-on-black. Monitors aren't paper.
I like it too, but people have complained. White-on-black will remain the default; I just want to make it possible to switch.
My reason for preferring plain black-on-white: makes it less conspicuous to read at work.
As an interim solution, try http://luminous.elcenia.com/story/luminosity##.html where ## is the chapter number. This is where I upload the files with the text, and then they go wherever else they need to be via file include.
Thanks. I did read you mentioning that trick, but it's good to be reminded.
I see your posts appear via the RSS feed, which currently contains a title and a one sentence summary. If you changed the configuration to include the whole chapter text into the feed, that would neatly obviate the problem.
I'll do a little testing and see if I can make it take file includes there. Pasting would leave the problem that the feed would require separate correction if I fix a typo or something.
Edit: I just tried a test of this and it didn't work. If anyone knows how to make RSS feeds accept file includes, please let me know (it'd be useful for Elcenia, too! HTHT already sends the new comic page through the feed, but that's just an image.)
I've had the same thought
Which is also far more appropriate in the context... it's supposed to be dark and there is supposed to be red involved somewhere on the page!