Reply to: A Blackadder Question

[NotAllThere]

My dad (totally blind) reads audiobooks all the time and has some sort of mp3 player that the RNIB provided. He never seems to have a problem obtaining what he wants.

He wanted a massively obscure audiobook recently and the only place I could find it was www.listening-books.org.uk. Didn't get it in the end, but their library looked pretty extensive.

Why did I read that as "obscene"?

[Qdos Contractor]

My dad (totally blind) reads audiobooks all the time and has some sort of mp3 player that the RNIB provided. He never seems to have a problem obtaining what he wants.

He wanted a massively obscure audiobook recently and the only place I could find it was www.listening-books.org.uk. Didn't get it in the end, but their library looked pretty extensive.

[ASB]

The RNIB have a library but its limited. He gets a load of braille books from them. Odd to think that Ian Brady could be the person typing them up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/672028.stm

Have you tired the assorted "discount book" type places in outlet centres and often small towns. We've got a guy locally deals with remaindered books and he has quite a good range of audio books (mainly BBC titles). Might just be worth popping in when you're passing one.

[BoredBloke]

The RNIB have a library but its limited. He gets a load of braille books from them. Odd to think that Ian Brady could be the person typing them up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/672028.stm

[zara_backdog]

Do you know anyone who could record some for you? Maybe worth contacting a theatrical or stage school to see if one or more students can do this as a project. i.e record a play with some of the stage directions left in to explain what is going on -would be could experiance for them!

[BoredBloke]

Dr Who?

I have no idea what these are like and he may have tried these already.

http://www.doctorwhoaudiobooks.com/

Got them

We've literally spent thousands on books over the years. On our recent trip to the states we spent $200 on audio books. The paper versions would have been about $50.

[zara_backdog]

Dr Who?

I have no idea what these are like and he may have tried these already.

http://www.doctorwhoaudiobooks.com/

[BoredBloke]

I take it he's done the Harry Potter ones then.

That Stephen Fry can take a LONG time to read a book.

yes - those also, but he preferred the Jim Dale readings of it.

Plus all of the Serier of Unfortunate Events. The trouble is, when you go into Waterstones there are hundreds of books aimed at his age group. Then you look at this tiny shelf with a few audio books on it and it's a but sad really.

[PRC1964]

I take it he's done the Harry Potter ones then.

That Stephen Fry can take a LONG time to read a book.

[BoredBloke]

The Radio 4 Dramatisations of Pratchett's stuff are usually pretty good. Also, of course, there's the Lord Of The Rings - 13 hours of it!

yes - he's done them also. Audio books are like his TV

[NotAllThere]

The Radio 4 Dramatisations of Pratchett's stuff are usually pretty good. Also, of course, there's the Lord Of The Rings - 13 hours of it!

[TheFaQQer]

I'll take both - Cheers

I don't know if he'd get the Mighty Boosh at all but you never know. We're really struggling for audio books these days. Most books don't get transferred to Braille or CD, and the ones that end up on CD cost £20 for a book that would normally cost about £8. We've just started on that Audible website - they seem to have quite a range.

There might be some "freely available" on btjunkie, but that would not be something that I condone.

[Spacecadet]

I'll take both - Cheers

I don't know if he'd get the Mighty Boosh at all but you never know. We're really struggling for audio books these days. Most books don't get transferred to Braille or CD, and the ones that end up on CD cost £20 for a book that would normally cost about £8. We've just started on that Audible website - they seem to have quite a range.

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[BoredBloke]

how about the mighty boosh radio series?

I've got it on CD... listened to it and still haven't quite got into it... you're welcome to have it if you want it

I offered a UML book & CD-ROM recently to a forum member for free... never heard back. You are wasting your time!

I'll take both - Cheers

I don't know if he'd get the Mighty Boosh at all but you never know. We're really struggling for audio books these days. Most books don't get transferred to Braille or CD, and the ones that end up on CD cost £20 for a book that would normally cost about £8. We've just started on that Audible website - they seem to have quite a range.

[Platypus]

I read some when I was around 13, but I only read a few, so I don't know if there is much difference in content across his pretty prolific output.

Foundation is no more complex than the robot stories.

The tapes have cool sound effects and music too!

It's quite rare these days but here's one