bickster Posted January 26, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 26, 2021 29 minutes ago, Genie said: Imagine how bad it would be if Corbyn won. Kentucky Fried Turnip? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 my mates got the kershaw hitler book on Audible, been years since ive read it gave my copy away, got me in the mood, i've got a free Audible trial with amazon so i signed up...i have to pay £25 to listen to that book? and then £8 a month to continue after the free trial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 27, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2021 8 minutes ago, villa4europe said: my mates got the kershaw hitler book on Audible, been years since ive read it gave my copy away, got me in the mood, i've got a free Audible trial with amazon so i signed up...i have to pay £25 to listen to that book? and then £8 a month to continue after the free trial? Audible is a complete nonstarter for me. You'd have to spend an awful lot of time listening to a great many books to get your money's worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I started listening to a lot of podcasts and I've almost burned myself out on them so the idea of it works But I wrongly expected it to be some sort of Spotify for books, there's a lot of free stuff on there but the frustration of it not being the one you actually want would be too much for me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Receiving things in the post during covid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: my mates got the kershaw hitler book on Audible, been years since ive read it gave my copy away, got me in the mood, i've got a free Audible trial with amazon so i signed up...i have to pay £25 to listen to that book? and then £8 a month to continue after the free trial? You get 1 credit each month to download an audiobook, I think you could use the one from your free trial to download it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 27, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2021 I'm isolating until Friday, and I'm almost out of beer. Wouldn't bother me, but for the fact there's a Villa game tonight. I've got wine, but it just doesn't go with football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 27, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2021 22 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I'm isolating until Friday, and I'm almost out of beer. Wouldn't bother me, but for the fact there's a Villa game tonight. I've got wine, but it just doesn't go with football. It does when you're sitting on a couch at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 27, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2021 44 minutes ago, BOF said: It does when you're sitting on a couch at home. Not for me, it doesn't. However it will have to do this evening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 9 hours ago, mjmooney said: Audible is a complete nonstarter for me. You'd have to spend an awful lot of time listening to a great many books to get your money's worth. Audiobooks are really expensive and the 'Netflix/Spotify' method just doesn't work for it, unless you were charging £100 a month plus for unlimited listening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 8 hours ago, mjmooney said: I'm isolating until Friday, and I'm almost out of beer. Wouldn't bother me, but for the fact there's a Villa game tonight. I've got wine, but it just doesn't go with football. Well the thing that pisses me off is that I wasted a beer on that match, so swings and roundabouts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 On 27/01/2021 at 09:52, villa4europe said: I started listening to a lot of podcasts and I've almost burned myself out on them so the idea of it works But I wrongly expected it to be some sort of Spotify for books, there's a lot of free stuff on there but the frustration of it not being the one you actually want would be too much for me 20 hours ago, Paddywhack said: You get 1 credit each month to download an audiobook, I think you could use the one from your free trial to download it. It is horifically expensive for what it is. I have audible and I use it so I can't really complain. But like V4E when I first signed up I expected it to be a Netflix of audio books. £7 a month and as many as you want. Nope. I don't understand why it's so expensive. £7 a month gets you unlimited access to a billion films and TV shows on any streaming platform. BUt it gets you ONE book a month on audible. Makes no sense to me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 9 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: It is horifically expensive for what it is. I have audible and I use it so I can't really complain. But like V4E when I first signed up I expected it to be a Netflix of audio books. £7 a month and as many as you want. Nope. I don't understand why it's so expensive. £7 a month gets you unlimited access to a billion films and TV shows on any streaming platform. BUt it gets you ONE book a month on audible. Makes no sense to me This is whats stopping me. 1 book a month is far too little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 11 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Well the thing that pisses me off is that I wasted a beer on that match, so swings and roundabouts. First half ice cold stella, second half warm flat Skol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 28 minutes ago, Seat68 said: This is whats stopping me. 1 book a month is far too little. You may be surprised when I say it's far too much for me. Thing is, 95% of my book consumption is actual reading of physical books. But I like the idea of having an audiobook library on tap for the occasional listen. But I'd want to pay on an 'as and when' basis. No point in paying every month when in any given month I probably wouldn't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: You may be surprised when I say it's far too much for me. Thing is, 95% of my book consumption is actual reading of physical books. But I like the idea of having an audiobook library on tap for the occasional listen. But I'd want to pay on an 'as and when' basis. No point in paying every month when in any given month I probably wouldn't use it. The opposite for me as I am finding more and more I am not reading where an audiobook would be perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Sat with my 8 year old son who is doing his school work from home. He's got different questions about Italy, longest river, lakes, mountains, language, currency, population etc Theres something quite sad about google, and children using it for this. I suppose years ago it would have been encyclopedia, atlases etc. Which is kind of similar but much more challenging and enjoyable I think. It feels like you'll never need to memorise any of these sort of things as presumably youll always have google on you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) Yeah I used to have a kids atlas full of fun facts and trivia and then also a fair few map puzzles which I used to love I think much like when I was at university it will become more about where to source information from and then how to reference it, that was the main thing about my degree and dissertation, not free thought or opinion, it was the ability to scour the Internet to find something but then make sure it was reliable and then you correctly told the world where you were stealing it from, also known as "don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia" Edit - if he likes that kind of thing have a play on sporcle, not sure how easy it will be for him but there's thousands of quizzes on there which will drill the trivia in to him, one for pretty much exactly what you've just described on italy Edited January 28, 2021 by villa4europe 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 55 minutes ago, turvontour said: Sat with my 8 year old son who is doing his school work from home. He's got different questions about Italy, longest river, lakes, mountains, language, currency, population etc Theres something quite sad about google, and children using it for this. I suppose years ago it would have been encyclopedia, atlases etc. Which is kind of similar but much more challenging and enjoyable I think. It feels like you'll never need to memorise any of these sort of things as presumably youll always have google on you? But what's the difference between looking up the answer on google or looking it up in an encyclopedia? Google is faster? I think the internet and google gives a huge amount of opportunity for learning that people never had before. When i hear about something now or have a question I can google it and then go down a rabbit hole reading about it. Before google and the internet I wouldn't have been able to do that. Ok if it was a school assignment I'd have to research it, but in general day to day I just wouldn't bother. If I had a question about something I'd think about it for a second and just forget about it. Now I can google it and read loads of stuff about it in seconds. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 Just now, Stevo985 said: But what's the difference between looking up the answer on google or looking it up in an encyclopedia? Google is faster? I think the internet and google gives a huge amount of opportunity for learning that people never had before. When i hear about something now or have a question I can google it and then go down a rabbit hole reading about it. Before google and the internet I wouldn't have been able to do that. Ok if it was a school assignment I'd have to research it, but in general day to day I just wouldn't bother. If I had a question about something I'd think about it for a second and just forget about it. Now I can google it and read loads of stuff about it in seconds. It's a fair point. I do wonder whether we retain it better from a book, but I have no real evidence for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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