{"id":15191,"date":"2012-02-29T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2012-02-29T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:25:31","slug":"how-i-learned-free-amateur-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15191","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned: Free Amateur Audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re talking about my books this week, it seems like a good time to mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/peripheralarbor.com\/\">Paul Spooner<\/a> recorded himself reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-I-Learned-ebook\/dp\/B006JALMLG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1330517645&#038;sr=1-1\">How I Learned<\/a> to his children. (Which is just a slightly expanded, proofed version of my <a href=\"?p=12687\">autoblography<\/a> series.)   With my blessing, he&#8217;s put these recordings up so that others can download or listen to them. You can find these recordings <a href=\"http:\/\/peripheralarbor.com\/HIL_Audio\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s only fair to warn that these were done in one take, and not for posterity. There&#8217;s room noise, and sometimes you&#8217;ll hear the baby chatter (which might be considered a bonus) or Paul might stumble over his words.  So if you&#8217;re looking for a professional-grade studio recording as read by trained celebrity voice, then this is probably not your thing.  If you&#8217;re willing to overlook these minor things, then I think this is a great way to enjoy the book while driving, jogging, or playing with your Nintendo Virtual Boy. <\/p>\n<p>I like Paul&#8217;s performance, and his reading of my words often gives them a bit more weight and depth than I was able to impart with my keyboard.  Thanks to Paul for putting this together. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re talking about my books this week, it seems like a good time to mention that Paul Spooner recorded himself reading How I Learned to his children. (Which is just a slightly expanded, proofed version of my autoblography series.) With my blessing, he&#8217;s put these recordings up so that others can download or listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[218,205],"class_list":["post-15191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-author","tag-autoblography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}