https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/ en Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138082 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:49:23 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138082 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138081 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:22:08 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138081 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138080 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:45:58 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138080 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138079 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:51:28 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138079 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138078 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:15:39 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138078 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138077 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:38:57 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138077 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138076 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:31:38 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138076 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138075 "... The visually impaired are a group who can most benefit from a program of this type, yet the interface was certainly not designed with them in mind. " NOT disagreeing really, but the big *market* for audiobooks is just people that want to multitask, e.g. listening while driving, or maybe relaxing on a plane flight, where an mp3 player is much easier to carry than a hard cover or paperback. The visually impaired do benefit most, but they're not the one's the audiobook market always targets. That said & if it helps, those with some visual impairment can often benefit from high contrast settings &/or large font displays in win7, &/or when your hardware supports it, setting the display resolution lower than the max with a larger monitor, or perhaps even using something like a cheaper, smaller HDTV rather than a PC monitor... I've seen several HDTVs from 19"28" priced the same or less than a PC monitor, that natively display at 720p, which would make text & icons & such much larger than the native display for a same-sized PC monitor. Many PCs have HDMI connections already, or you could use a DVI -> HDMI adapter, or for older systems I've seen VGA -> HDMI converters &/or USB -> HDMI converters for ~$25 on sale at sites like meritline.com. * * * #14: "... My father is completely blind and the only thing he has that he enjoys is his talking books. He has a machine that plays these books on CDs ... So if this works, it would be very useful for me to make books on CD for him. What I’m asking is, if anyone also knows of any other programs like these? I noticed that this has a large thumbs down amount. So if anyone knows of any other programs in addition, or instead of this, could they please post names or links?" FWIW I'd suggest (if you don't know already) finding out if there's a particular format his reader/player uses. Audiobook Downloader Pro helps you find & download audiobooks in the public domain at those 2 sites, but you might have to convert for his player, or skip the player & load them on a few mp3 players for him -- I've seen them as cheap as $3-$4, & rather than trying to navigate from one book to the next, maybe load several, each with just one book, swapping out those he's listened to with fresh downloads. Some of the really cheap mp3 players I've seen have really minimal controls that I'd think he could manage. TO actually make audiobooks OTOH, if that's what you were asking about, you might check around the sites & forums of people who create the audiobooks for sites like librivox.org. I'm hearing impaired so I'm not up on the best or latest tech for electronically reading text, but I know it's fairly widespread with a lot of resources you could explore -- even Adobe's PDF reader has it. Using that you could fairly easily make audio recordings or books from a huge number of sources, from newpapers & magazines to perhaps even Amazon's books for their Kindle, & they often have several free.]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:33:07 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138075 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138074 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:30:51 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138074 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138073 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:01:55 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audiobook-downloader-pro-1-2/#comment-138073