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[darchildre]

We do this thing at the Kingston library where people can sign up to come in 15 minutes before we open on days that I work and I can talk them through using our downloadable materials. This has become increasingly popular after Christmas - I had one last Thursday, one today, and another one later this week.

What I do when I'm helping people is to go through the download process a couple times and, if they don't know what they want to check out, I'll just take the first thing on the list (and show them how to delete it if they don't want it).

The last two people I've had sessions with have wanted to know how to use the audiobooks. I have sent both of them away with audiobooks of Les Miserables.

Three weeks for a sixty-hour audiobook. Good luck, you guys!

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[aa_banner]

Ha ha. I totally bought that 60 hour audiobook in the audible classics sale! It was $6. I figured that was like ten cents an hour or something even though I have already read the book. Sometimes I want to have something egregiously long at my disposal!

[darchildre]

I keep going back and forth about acquiring the audiobook because, y'know, I love audiobooks and Les Miz, but I am leery of encountering it in a form where I cannot easily skip the Convent History or the All the Waterloo Ever. Especially since it those things take longer to listen to than to read and god knows they took long enough to read.

[aa_banner]

I admit to some trepidation on those grounds as well, especially if -- heavens forfend -- I end up in Waterloo while I'm on a long drive and can't conveniently fast forward. >.>

[darchildre]

The thing about Waterloo is that there are bits of it that I legitimately like - mostly the sad bits about how France is (or isn't) recovering from the battle, because I recognize in them echoes of our own national consciousness of the Civil War - but they are surrounded by chapters of troop movements made by people whose names I do not know and cannot pronounce and are not properly part of the story. Just, there was a cliffhanger, Victor Hugo, tell me what is happening to Valjean!

[silveradept]

I sincerely hope they're doing a long trip or something else that will mean they have those sixty hours to devote, because...yeah.

[darchildre]

Yeah, that is crazy long. Which is the reason that, if I ever do decide to get the audiobook, I will not be getting it from the library. Because three weeks is just not going to happen.