Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game

Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by taeric on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:21PM (#36979734)

We still have a box of a lot of books on tape we found in a garage sale around here. Had to get a tape player for the kids to listen to them, as they were the kind where they had the books with them, too. Was a ton of fun, if a touch annoying to deal with rewinding the tape and such.

We also still have more than a few books on CD. We don't get as many as we used to, ironically, since it is far more convenient to use audible. Nice to shift from car to bedroom for stories.

I've been curious on why more "music players" weren't better at audio books. I'm guessing the ability to save mid track is just not nearly as big of a deal for most music applications?

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Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by bombcar on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:34PM (#36979813)

Exactly. You can still find a few devices that did it (often out of Japan, especially minidisk players, for example), but most had no permanent memory or only a few bytes for radio stations, and of course you can't write to a CD.

Many car CD-players handled it just fine.

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Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by TylerE on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:14PM (#36989578)

Every car stereo I've had for at least the past decade automatically saves the position when you turn the car off.

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