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"American Gods" question
Does anyone know what the true first of Gaiman's "American Gods" is?
I see that both US and UK editions came out in 2001. A search on abebooks.com did not shed any light on this issue, as both editions were offered as "firsts." The U.S. edition precedes by a few weeks. For future reference, the best group to ask such questions in is rec.collecting.books (to which this reply has been copied). |
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"American Gods" question
On 28 Feb 2006, "William M. Klimon" wrote in
oups.com: In any case, I was hoping to listen to AMERICAN GODS next, but the only unabridged version available on CD seems to be the "MP3 CD" version, which apparently can only be played on a computer. (I was also hoping to listen to a recent and well-received legal novel, IN THE SHADOW OF THE LAW, but it too seems unavailable in unabridged CD form.) Any rhyme or reason to these (un)availabilities? The thing is that one can fit more onto a CD using MP3 encoding than using standard audio encoding. Or, to put it another way, a long audio book will fit on fewer CDs. I shudder to think how many CDs an uncompressed version of 'American Gods' would take up, and perhaps the publisher did too. Paul -- The Pink Pedanther "Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan." |
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"American Gods" question
On 28 Feb 2006 00:32:45 GMT, Paul Andinach
wrote: On 28 Feb 2006, "William M. Klimon" wrote in roups.com: In any case, I was hoping to listen to AMERICAN GODS next, but the only unabridged version available on CD seems to be the "MP3 CD" version, which apparently can only be played on a computer. (I was also hoping to listen to a recent and well-received legal novel, IN THE SHADOW OF THE LAW, but it too seems unavailable in unabridged CD form.) Any rhyme or reason to these (un)availabilities? The thing is that one can fit more onto a CD using MP3 encoding than using standard audio encoding. Or, to put it another way, a long audio book will fit on fewer CDs. I shudder to think how many CDs an uncompressed version of 'American Gods' would take up, and perhaps the publisher did too. Paul My wife gets audio books through Audible.com - we download them and copy them in compressed form to her portable player, although if you wish you can burn them to CDs uncompressed to play in any CD player. "American Gods" unabridged was 19 hours and change, and that would be a big stack of CD disks (and probably a couple of hours disk swapping in the course of burning them, too). Compressed, it would easily fit onto one CD. And (for Bill) there are numerous non-computer CD players now which will play MP3 CDs. You can probably get a battery powered portable one for less than $30. A little FM transceiver to plug into the earphone jack and broadcast to your car radio, and you're in business. Most recent DVD players will play them, too. |
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"R. Totale" wrote in message ... .... And (for Bill) there are numerous non-computer CD players now which will play MP3 CDs. You can probably get a battery powered portable one for less than $30. A little FM transceiver to plug into the earphone jack and broadcast to your car radio, and you're in business. Most recent DVD players will play them, too. |
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"American Gods" question
"R. Totale" wrote in message ... .... My wife gets audio books through Audible.com - we download them and copy them in compressed form to her portable player, although if you wish you can burn them to CDs uncompressed to play in any CD player. "American Gods" unabridged was 19 hours and change, and that would be a big stack of CD disks (and probably a couple of hours disk swapping in the course of burning them, too). Compressed, it would easily fit onto one CD. And (for Bill) there are numerous non-computer CD players now which will play MP3 CDs. You can probably get a battery powered portable one for less than $30. A little FM transceiver to plug into the earphone jack and broadcast to your car radio, and you're in business. Most recent DVD players will play them, too. And if you're insistent on having it in CD format, it's relatively easy to produce CD's from MP3's. Roxio or Nero software will do it easily. Blank CD's are very cheap. Though I suppose if that's what you wanted, you'd prefer to buy it like that. J/ |
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"American Gods" question
Paul Andinach wrote:
The thing is that one can fit more onto a CD using MP3 encoding than using standard audio encoding. Or, to put it another way, a long audio book will fit on fewer CDs. I shudder to think how many CDs an uncompressed version of 'American Gods' would take up, and perhaps the publisher did too. Yes, we could fit more books onto microfilm too, but they would not be easily readable. The last thing I want to spend my time doing is ripping audio books from MP3 to standard CD format. I'm not sure what's so shutter-inducing about a big box of audio book CDs. I've recently listened to unabridged versions of: DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD on 20 CDs DUNE: THE MACHINE CRUSADE on 22 CDs THE RULE OF FOUR on 11 CDs and am currently listening to: JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL on 26 CDs. I have a long commute, so the more, the merrier for me. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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"American Gods" question
"William M. Klimon" wrote in message ups.com... Paul Andinach wrote: The thing is that one can fit more onto a CD using MP3 encoding than using standard audio encoding. Or, to put it another way, a long audio book will fit on fewer CDs. I shudder to think how many CDs an uncompressed version of 'American Gods' would take up, and perhaps the publisher did too. Yes, we could fit more books onto microfilm too, but they would not be easily readable. The last thing I want to spend my time doing is ripping audio books from MP3 to standard CD format. I'm not sure what's so shutter-inducing about a big box of audio book CDs. I've recently listened to unabridged versions of: DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD on 20 CDs DUNE: THE MACHINE CRUSADE on 22 CDs THE RULE OF FOUR on 11 CDs and am currently listening to: JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL on 26 CDs. I have a long commute, so the more, the merrier for me. I'd certainly prefer to have a single CD with the entire book on it if I were on a commute. Unless I could guarantee that one CD's worth would last the trip. I can just imagine reaching into the glove compartment to try to find #17 and pulling out #7 by mistake. And the sound quality of MP3's for spoken work is just fine. If one doesn't have MP3 capability in the car that's another matter. J/ |
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"American Gods" question
On 27 Feb 2006 15:24:57 -0800, "William M. Klimon" wrote:
wrote: Does anyone know what the true first of Gaiman's "American Gods" is? I've started listening to audio books during my daily commute. I just finished THE RULE OF FOUR, which I found surprisingly entertaining. It is a biblio-mystery of a sort, but I found the bibliographic part somewhat weak, while much of the rest is quite clever. In any case, I was hoping to listen to AMERICAN GODS next, but the only unabridged version available on CD seems to be the "MP3 CD" version, which apparently can only be played on a computer. (I was also hoping to listen to a recent and well-received legal novel, IN THE SHADOW OF THE LAW, but it too seems unavailable in unabridged CD form.) Any rhyme or reason to these (un)availabilities? Makes me glad I'm a BOOK collector, though--really only one format to worry about. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com Note that the top-of-the-line Subaru car radio will play mp3 CDs. Not that I have it, but it is described in the manual. I would imagine that it isn't the only such device. P. Taine |
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"P. Taine" wrote in message ... .... Note that the top-of-the-line Subaru car radio will play mp3 CDs. Not that I have it, but it is described in the manual. I would imagine that it isn't the only such device. P. Taine |
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