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[the_rck]

Scott is currently listening to Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind on CD. He's six CDs in and hasn't yet made up his mind whether he likes the book or not. He's not going to finish the dratted thing-- It's 28 CDs and is due on the 22nd, and he only listens to about 30 minutes a day (on his drive home from work). We can't renew it. The library only has one copy, and there are ten people on the waitlist. Because the book is so long, the check out period is six weeks, so it would be at least a year before we could get our hands on the set again. I'd ask the library to buy a second copy as there's demand enough, but the thing is unfortunately out of print. Amazon still lists reasonably priced used copies, but the library doesn't buy used.

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[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

I suggest he rips the CDs to MP3 and delete them when he's finished.

[the_rck]

He may do that, but the difficulty will be listening to it. He only has time to listen to audiobooks on his drive home from work, and if he rips to MP3, he can't listen to them in the car because all he's got for listening to MP3s is his laptop which isn't going to go to work with him. I'm not sure he cares enough about this book to try to listen to it at home (especially since listening to it at home means Cordelia and I have to hear it. Cordelia's heard about ten minutes of this one and has stated absolutely that she doesn't want to hear another word of it).