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Comment author: lukeprog 31 October 2013 11:10:57PM *  8 points [-]

Okay. In this comment I'll keep an updated list of audiobooks I've heard since Sept. 2013, for those who are interested. All audiobooks are available via iTunes/Audible unless otherwise noted.

Outstanding:
* Tetlock, Expert Political Judgment
* Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (my clips)
* Schlosser, Command and Control (my clips)
* Yergin, The Quest (my clips)
* Osnos, Age of Ambition (my clips)

Worthwhile if you care about the subject matter:
* Singer, Wired for War (my clips)
* Feinstein, The Shadow World (my clips)
* Venter, Life at the Speed of Light (my clips)
* Rhodes, Arsenals of Folly (my clips)
* Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI (my clips)
* Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (available here) (my clips)
* Gleick, Chaos (my clips)
* Wiener, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (my clips)
* Freese, Coal: A Human History (my clips)
* Aid, The Secret Sentry (my clips)
* Scahill, Dirty Wars (my clips)
* Patterson, Dark Pools (my clips)
* Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body
* Pentland, Social Physics (my clips)
* Okasha, Philosophy of Science: VSI
* Mazzetti, The Way of the Knife (my clips)
* Ferguson, The Ascent of Money (my clips)
* Lewis, The Big Short (my clips)
* de Mesquita & Smith, The Dictator's Handbook (my clips)
* Sunstein, Worst-Case Scenarios (available here) (my clips)
* Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From (my clips)
* Harford, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back (my clips)
* Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter (my clips)
* Hawkins & Blakeslee, On Intelligence
* Gleick, The Information (my clips)
* Gleick, Isaac Newton
* Greene, Moral Tribes
* Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (my clips)
* Sabin, The Bet (my clips)
* Watts, Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer (my clips)
* Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (my clips)
* Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
* Dennett, Freedom Evolves
* Kaufman, The First 20 Hours
* Gertner, The Idea Factory (my clips)
* Olen, Pound Foolish
* McArdle, The Up Side of Down
* Rhodes, Twilight of the Bombs (my clips)
* Isaacson, Steve Jobs (my clips)
* Priest & Arkin, Top Secret America (my clips)
* Ayres, Super Crunchers (my clips)
* Lewis, Flash Boys (my clips)
* Dartnell, The Knowledge (my clips)
* Cowen, The Great Stagnation
* Lewis, The New New Thing (my clips)
* McCray, The Visioneers (my clips)
* Jackall, Moral Mazes (my clips)
* Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar
* Ariely, The Honest Truth about Dishonesty (my clips)

Comment author: lukeprog 25 November 2013 10:46:07AM *  7 points [-]

A process for turning ebooks into audiobooks for personal use, at least on Mac:

  1. Rip the Kindle ebook to non-DRMed .epub with Calibre and Apprentice Alf.
  2. Open the .epub in Sigil, merge all the contained HTML files into a single HTML file (select the files, right-click, Merge). Open the Source view for the big HTML file.
  3. Edit the source so that the ebook begins with the title and author, then jumps right into the foreword or preface or first chapter, and ends with the end of the last chapter or epilogue. (Cut out any table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, appendices, index, bibliography, and endnotes.)
  4. Remove footnotes if easy to do so, using Sigil's Regex find-and-replace (remember to use Minimal Match so you don't delete too much!). Click through several instances of the Find command to make sure it's going to properly cut out only the footnotes, before you click "Replace All."
  5. (Ignore italics here; it's added erroneously by LW.) Use find and replace to add [[slnc1000]] at the end of every paragraph; Mac's text-to-speech engine interprets this as a slight pause, which aids in comprehension when I'm listening to the audiobook. Usually this just means replacing every instance of </p> with [[slnc1000]]</p>
  6. Copy/paste that entire HTML file into a text file and save it as .html. Open this in your browser, Select All, right-click and choose Services -> Add to iTunes as Spoken Track. (I think "Ava" is the best voice; you'll have to add this voice by upgrading to Mavericks and adding Ava under System Preferences -> Dictation and Speech.) This will take a while, and might even throw up an error even though the track will continue being created and will succeed.
  7. Now, sync this text-to-speech audiobook to some audio player that can play at 2x or 3x speed, and listen away.

To de-DRM your Audible audiobooks, just use Tune4Mac.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 08 December 2013 04:16:05PM 1 point [-]

VoiceDream for iPhone does a very fine job of text-to-speech; it also syncs your pocket bookmarks and can read epub files.

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