I have to rectify the report of the novel of WM. Paul Young – The Shack. As this post is about how I prepared and listened to this book I neither comment its theme nor contrast it with Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show on Earth
- 250 pages total (including foreword, after words and acknowledgements)
- 4h 40min audio play time (on normal speed) or cc. 3h 30min on high speed (I usually play on 133% speed)
In this case I wanted to compare again reading against listening so I have read the first 90 pages at night then I carried on with listening the rest. I could not find any difference in the experience apart from that reading needed my half night and I was sleepy on the next day.
Reading makes the time slow down and you relax. Listening in wasted time makes the time speed up and you feel juiced.
As The Shack is a relatively short novel it took only a few days to listen to it between 17.Nov. and 21.Nov. during my driving time to the office and back and sitting on the training cycle. I hate cycling inroom in winter time so I must listen to some thrilling story.
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Getting close to the finale of Rita Monaldi – Imprimatur
(sorry for beeing late with its review and report) I have just captured two new books what I will listen to.
Malcolm Glodwell – Outliers: The Story of Success was 292 pages and took 12min.13sec to grap all the pages to jpg.
Robert B. Cialdini – Influence: Science and Practice (5th edition) was 330 pages and took 10min.21sec to shoot them (2 pages at one shot of course).
My machine is working on the conversions now so I will have the mp3 files soon.
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R. Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth.
- 496 pages total (including illustration photo pages, appendix, bibliography, acknowledgements, table of contents, etc.)
- 418 text pages
- 679 min (11 hrs 19 mins) audio play time (on normal speed) or cc. 9 hours on high speed (I usually play on 133% speed)
Data based on the Hungarian edition: R. Dawkins: A nagy mutatvány
See my book review here.
You can order the book from Amazon here The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Date
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Listening Time (minutes)
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Book Pages
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Activity
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Notes
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| Oct-29-2009 |
67
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9-51
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driving to office and back to home |
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| Oct-30-2009 |
22
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52-84
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driving to countryside |
Thanksgiving visit |
| Oct-31-2009 |
50
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85-108
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driving to countryside |
Thanksgiving visit |
| Nov-1-2009 |
22
|
108-122
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driving to home |
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| Nov-2-2009 |
106
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122-209
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- driving to office and back
-driving to a meeting
-fitness training |
during training, I need to listen to the audio on a lower speed to understand well |
| Nov-3-2009 |
75
|
210-258
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driving to office and back |
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| Nov-4-2009 |
18
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259-272
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driving to office |
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| Nov-5-2009 |
134
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273-354
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driving to office, to car service, training |
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| Nov-6-2009 |
87
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355-410
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driving to office |
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| Nov-9-2009 |
75
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411-459
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driving to office |
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