Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life

jimharris writes "The VCR started it - and then the DVR improved it, so now I want to apply the concept of timeshifting in other ways. I've always wanted an audio cassette player that worked like a VCR so I could listen to more radio talk shows. This morning's NY Times stirred my interest with After TiVo, Radio Rewound about a MP3 device that does just that. Better yet, is Replay Radio - software that is more flexible and you can download the results to a portable player. I already use Audible.com to squeeze in more books in my life, by listening, rather than reading. I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months just by carrying around my Otis player when I get dressed in the morning, driving to and from work, doing housework, or when I exercise. Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more."

Comments

8 Book in 2 months?

[nietsch]

You must be illiterate if you think that is a big achievement, or do you have dislexia or other reading disorders? 8 books in 2 months is less then a book per week. If I take more than 1 week to finish a book it is just not interesting.
But if you use as a backgroundnoise with added bonus to be able to claim literacy: Sure, go right ahead.

pretty childish

[misterpies]

>>I already use Audible.com to squeeze in more books in my life, by listening, rather than reading.

Here's a hint: if you learn to read without moving your lips, you'll find that you can get through a book in a fraction of the time it would take to listen to it.

>>I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months

I'm starting to wonder if the poster's age is in double digits. Apart from the puerile boasting (you know, it's not how much you read that counts, it's what you read), what's this 'unabridged' thing? Call me a metropolitan intellectual snob if you like, but the last time I saw an abridged book was in kindergarten. In the age of Harry Potter, even 8 year olds read 600-page books.