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Re:20,858 Public Domain Audio Books by disambiguation on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:15PM (#45663471)
Semi off topic, but i always thought it would be cool if there was a kind of multiplayer for ebooks - threads and notes in the margins similar to how dark souls lets you write brief hints for other players that you can hide around the game world.

Its impractical due to the technical and legal challenges, but it would be neat to see the thoughts of other readers page by page.

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Re:20,858 Public Domain Audio Books by Podrod on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:08PM (#45663828)
On kindles you can highlight passages and there's an option to see the most highlighted passages. Not quite the same as notes but a bit similar. I find it annoying and have it disabled however.
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Re:20,858 Public Domain Audio Books by snoozebutton on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:27PM (#45698724)
I thought you were going to say multiplayer for audiobooks. Different people could read for different characters and the listener could choose which voice they wanted to read for which parts.
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Re:20,858 Public Domain Audio Books by yencabulator on Monday October 27, 2025 @02:35PM (#45724665)
Lots of audio recordings have a "background" that would be jarring to jump between, and getting those backgrounds identical is actually hard work for professionals.

I find remote interview-format podcasts sometimes hard to listen to because the audio quality jumps around so much, with background hisses appearing and disappearing.

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