Audio book links

[Joe Bento]

Cassette tapes are also typically less expensive than CD's.  However,
I honestly no longer have a tape player other than a boom box.  Tapes
seem to have a much shorter lifespan than CD's.  I've noticed sound
degregation on many tapes only a few years old.

You can get 2 hours playing time on a C120 cassette tape, though many
manufacturers used to discourage using tapes of that length.  (As a
blind person, your tape player is probably variable speed.  I believe
some of the talking book tapes ran at a tape speed of 3/4 ips or slower.)

CD's are easier to "rip" to a computer so you can copy the files to a
portable MP3 player. I would also think CD's might be easier than tape
for a blind person to navigate with their separate tracks.

Joe

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mich Verrier" <mich at n...> wrote:
> hi all I am wondering if the CD's have a different thing on each CD
Sleeve 
> then what does the Tape formats of the books have on them? anything?
I am 
> also asking because I am blind so there for can't see for my self. I
like 
> Jim Dale's voice  Also did you know that you can  fit more on to a
tape then 
> you can a CD? from Mich Verrier.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:37 PM
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Audio book links
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> > "Joe Bento" _joseph at k..._ (mailto:joseph at k...)   wrote:
> >
> >>> I just took advantage of a buy-it-now option on ebay for  all
five Jim
> > Dale CD audio books new and shrink wrapped for $159.   <<
> >
> > That was a good deal! You are in for a treat and I envy you the 
> > experience.
> >
> > It's not just the books themselves. Spend some time looking at the
> > packaging. Each group of CDs within a book has a different image
on it. 
> > The  cardboard
> > folders are all different. I especially like the back  cover of
autographs 
> > on
> > one of the folders in Order of the Phoenix.
> >
> > Have fun!
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