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Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by spidersouris on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:51AM (#24233238)
Do you know which book?
Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by MaxBarraclough on Friday August 21, 2020 @05:29AM (#24233412)
It's one of the three of his books I own, I'm afraid I can't easily narrow it down further. (I own all three as audiobooks, and I recall Simon Jones reading it, but it turns out he read all three.)

• Predictably Irrational

• The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty

• The Upside of Irrationality

Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by elliekelly on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:00AM (#24234505)
Tangentially related I wish there were a way to “search” within audio books. Once you’ve finished the book its almost impossible to figure out where a specific chapter or passage is if you’d like to go back.
Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by cestith on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:59AM (#24235955)
The semantic data format people have had a point all along. Just because digital audiobooks are inspired by books on cassette is no reason the data format can't support all sorts of metadata. We could have a format for written and read aloud works that highlights every word in the text on a screen as it's read when used in the proper player software, with user notations, bookmarks, indexes, an completely searchable by full text.
Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by jfengel on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:14PM (#24236146)
Kindle supports this with Whispersync. I don't know how the file format works.
Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear... by MaxBarraclough on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:35AM (#24234748)
They'd rather charge you separately for a DRM-locked ebook version.