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Can someone make Paul Graham's essays into an audio book?

by Ian999 on 10/19/13, 8:16 AM with 5 comments

Walking around campus takes about 15 minutes. Would be perfect to listen to a Paul Graham essay each day. Please don't complain that I am lazy - I tend to remember certain things much better through hearing.

  • by sfrechtling on 10/19/13, 11:06 AM

    Have you tried text to speech? - that might be a quick compromise. A very quick Google found http://www.yakitome.com./tts/text_to_speech

  • by ScottWhigham on 10/19/13, 11:10 AM

    What am I missing here? At first (and third) glance, this seems pedantic, unthinking, and yes, lazy. In the time it took you to think of this idea and write this post, you could've recorded half of one into your phone's voice memo thing, couldn't you? Then you'd have it twice - once while you recorded it and once when you listened to it.

    Besides, there is copyright to be concerned with - maybe pg doesn't want some random 3rd party releasing his works in any format. Who knows - maybe behind the scenes he's already had this idea, has hired a VO actor, and is doing it already.