So I'm listening to the Audible edition of RAH's "The Rolling Stones"

[jeriendhal]

And to my delight I've found that they recorded it with a full cast + narrator, a step up even from the excellent Readers Chair version of LMB's Vorkosigan books, which featured two readers taking on the male and female parts respectively. Given that The Rolling Stones has probably the snappiest dialog of any of his novels, juvenile or otherwise, it works extremely well. All you'd need is some sound effects and more music and you'd have a great radio play.

On a related note, I'd love to know why the hell the PG county library's download service has a limit on how many customers can "check out" an audiobook from their website. Limiting the amount of time you can use it makes sense, but it's not like the data dissapears from their system. Probably a licensing issue with the audiobook publishers. Shrug.

Comments

[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

It's the same with Baltimore, Arlington, and Fairfax county libraries. All of them limit how many customers can download an audio book at a time.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side: You CAN download audiobooks, rather than going to the library and getting the CD(s).

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Peta made the same comment more-or-less when I mentioned the library's download service to her.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Probably a licensing issue with the audiobook publishers.

Almost certainly a licensing issue. I remember working in an office many years ago where the application software (WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.) was installed on the network but only had a limited number of licenses... So after that number was hit, anyone else who tried to run the program got an error and had to wait for someone else to relinquish it.

(It took me very little time to figure out how to work around that.)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a former public librarian, definitely a licensing issue. Still, it's better than nothing...