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@Xavier@infosec.exchangeHey there #bookstodon folks. Would love help finding my next #audiobook adventure. I just finished the latest book in "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and, while amazingly fun, it reminded me that I try to only read series that have endings. I hate waiting for the next book!
So what are…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/819476/spotify-audiobook-ai-recaps-short-summary
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI'm listening to this audiobook at work atm as I pick snails invisible to the naked eye out of dust 😵💫🫨
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@pre@boing.worldNot sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@nitpicking@mstdn.partyI'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineBTW, there's a sale on this audiobook right now:
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@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeI am so tired today.
I binged "Someone You Can Build a Nest In" by @… al in one go yesterday and last night for my bookclub this month.
I didn't intend to. It was just so fun and funny and I had to just one more chapter it to make sure everything turned out ok for everyone. It's the first book I've read with an asexual major char…
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza🎁 Looking for the perfect festive gift for the reader in your life? Give the gift of adventure this Christmas!
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@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAttention dog lovers: The audiobook for "Arthur" is available for the next 2 days for FREE for Audible members!
▶️ "Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed a Jungle to Find a Home" by Mikael Lindnord on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/B078251LNZ?source_code=AS…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/lis
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
9. How does the means of publication change a work? print? digital? audiobook? something else?
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9. I do only digital so my answers are limited. I wouldn't change my preexisting work to fit the publishing format (I am naive enough to believe it fits most formats I need 'as is'). But creating a new work (or recreating it) would get a lot from le…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDid you know Michael Irvin STABBED a lineman in the neck & should have been charged with attempted murder but got away with it "because football"?
Listen to the audiobook, Jeff Pearlman's "Boys Will Be Boys".
https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V9ZBVG?sour
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b
