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[arethinn]

gelatinous mutant coconut says:
you know what i hate?
audiobooks with tons of discs
this one is 24, which is the biggest i've processed in some time
i use *tons* of labels up labeling each disc, and each pocket in the album
fortunately we only put tattle-tape on the last disc, but then it'd be far too expensive to do otherwise, at $1.40 per special disc-shaped tattle tape thing
between the supplies and my time and the processor's time, it already costs like $22.75* to get this thing cataloged and processed
Maybe someone should just shoot ken follett
so he won't write such long crap
White House Diary: 18 discs
STOP TALKING, JIMMY CARTER


* - Approximation, and exclusive of the purchase price of the audiobook itself, of course ($59.95).

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[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

...or you could just merge the audio files and play it back on an iPod or something similar, thus negating the need for physical media altogether?

[arethinn]

I'm complaining about having to catalog/process items this long for the library, not listening to them. (Admittedly, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which I did listen to but did not have to catalog, was in this ballpark - 23 discs. I actually don't have an iPod or any such MP3 playing device, though it was moot since I was listening to them at work on the computer's drive while I cataloged.)

enotsola's solution was DVD-audio, which would have taken e.g. the Ken Follett novel down to 4 discs.