xoops!
my window did not let me see all of your message.
So the other one is bill too.
hmmm perhaps NLS is trying this as some kind of cost cutting measure, or
thought it would be more fun to have bill reading it, which I understand is
a nice job really.
I will have to get that one from the Library when I have time grin.
Sorry for the mistake,
Karen
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Evan Reese wrote:
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Author: Clinton, Bill, 1946- Title: My life [sound recording] / Bill Clinton. Edition: Abridged. Published: New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, c2004. (Distributed in special format for the Library of Congress by Talking Book Publishers) Description: 2 sound cassettes (C-90) : analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. Book Number: RC 58101 Dewey No.: 973.929092 B ANF ISBN: 0739317059 Notes: A shared master program book. The Random House Audio recording has been adapted by NLS. The publication has been changed to 15/16 ips, 4 track format. Side announcements have been added. Digital master.
However they did record the original version as well:
Author: Clinton, Bill, 1946- Title: My life [sound recording] / Bill Clinton. Published: New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, c2004. (Distributed in special format for the Library of Congress by Talking Book Publishers) Description: 9 sound cassettes in two containers (C-90) : analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. Book Number: RC 58100 Dewey No.: 973.929092 B ANF ISBN: 0375414576 Notes: A shared master program book. The Random House Audio recording has been adapted by NLS. The publication has been changed to 15/16 ips, 4 track format. Side announcements have been added.
Actually, they didn't record either one at the talking book studios the way they usually make talking books by the looks of things, which might explain how they got them out so fast. I don't know which one came out first, though they both came out quicker than usual.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi, What proof do you have that the clinton auto biography was abridged? NLS never records abridged versions, as this would serve no one. Also, on some occasions NLS has an arrangement with the publisher to have access to books either just before or at the exact time of printing. Such speeds up the time it takes in getting a book on the library shelves, but can also in the case of book to movie adaptations result in some different endings than either the films themselves or later publications of those kinds of books. I am an NLS fan always will be. Bookshare will not be able to equal the NLS reach or quality for a variety of reasons in my view. nor should it. there should be a choice here as with other things.
Karen
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Evan Reese wrote:
> Was that the abridged version? I thought they got it out faster than > usual, and I thought that was a really long book for them to get done so > quickly. That must have been the reason.
> > Also, if you can spring for one of those Handicassettes, you can change > the speed of the narrator's voice without changing the pitch. I think > they're overpriced, but I use it all the time to read books and > magazines on tape.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx
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> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:15 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad > scan Wheel of...
> > > I agree with Shannon. I just read a Nora Roberts series and I'm sure NLS > will have it eventually, but I didn't have to wait. Also, when I started > with Bookshare, I read Bill Clinton's biography, the whole thing. NLS > had it at about the same time, but it was the abridged version and I > wanted to read all of it. And I find I can read faster with bookshare > books because I use my screen reader and can increase the speed to a > much faster rate than is used by NLS narrators. The only way I can do > this with NLS books is to increase tape speed which distorts the > narrator's voice.
> > Gail
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