Burt Blackwell... What a great narrator he was! I met him back in 1972
when I was a summer missionary in Louisville. My tour of APH was a
hi-light of my summer.
At 08:11 PM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
Hi. Since these threads have generated in my opinion a bit of overwhelming list traffic, I thought I'd combine my responses into one message.
I so far have used the book port to listen to some web braille books and magazines. I briefly signed up for audible books but my economic circumstances do not permit me to stick with audible as much as I enjoy it. The same goes for book share. I have heard a couple of mp3's on the book port and I thought they sounded wonderful. I did not compres the files because I wanted to hear the song in its normal pitch.
I prefer human narration when the narrator is good and that is of course to each one's preference. I did read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the book port CD but a human narrator pronouncing the dialect is much better than a synthesizer trying to pronounce it. Give me Burt Blackwell or Jim Walton any time. Or even my 8th grade English teacher for that matter.
I do not speed books up very often. Most of the narrators from the major studios read fast enough for me.
Mike
