One crucial activity for me is listening to audiobooks while driving. I used to hate driving, but now I’m just a student in a car!
A fact about audiobooks is that they only go to such depth. I cannot find a better course than “the origins of the human mind” on evolutionary psychology. For my areas of expertise (Evo Psy, Pos Psy, Evolution, and Philosophy) there is nothing audiobooks can give me anymore. So I’m learning linguistics, economics and Anthropology.
My question to fellow less wrongers is: There is widespread rumor that the free days of finding good books, audiobooks, movies, and music on the internet are counted. Should we download Loads of good material, and keep it safe?
Several P2P websites were taken down, some, like piratebay, had to change location. Most important I think is that the old Gigapedia, which became Library.nu went down. It probably had the best books online.
Things are scattering now. It is widespread in Brazil where I live (though websites are down everywhere). I also noted it on the SI fellows list. I think it is a cheap time effort investment to take it seriously.
I find it somewhat difficult to believe that you’ve maxed out your knowledge “philosophy” obtainable from audiobooks! But only somewhat, if you care to inform me that there is simply a terrible drought of philosophy audiobooks.
There is widespread rumor that the free days of finding good books, audiobooks, movies, and music on the internet are counted.
This comment is oddly prescient. Yesterday, I downloaded several books from libgen.info. Today, when I attempted to do so a bit more, I find that libgen.info is gone. library.nu and libgen.info were the best, or perhaps only decent book pirating websites. Now there is basically nowhere to get free pirated books online.
Edit: And now I find that this comment is premature; libgen.info is back up. Shocking scare, though. Edit: And now I see that previous edit was premature; libgen.info is down again. Edit: It is back up. I give up.
There is at least one community that does (properly) free audiobooks: LibriVox. However, they are restricted to public domain works, so their catalog is restricted (it consists mostly of old works that have gone out of copyright).
They have a fairly large number of audiobooks categorised as non-fiction (although the bible appears to be put in this category). Also, the free restriction means that modern/up-to-date courses are likely to be hard to come by (that said, I don’t really know that much about LibriVox’s catalog, and I’d be very happy to be proved wrong).
If you spend enough time looking you can find some higher level stuff. But, yeah, unfortunately I mostly end up listening to intro stuff of various disciplines.
Things seem to be getting worse for internet piracy, but if you use stuff to hide your IP and go to private torrent sites things will probably still be great.
One crucial activity for me is listening to audiobooks while driving. I used to hate driving, but now I’m just a student in a car!
A fact about audiobooks is that they only go to such depth. I cannot find a better course than “the origins of the human mind” on evolutionary psychology. For my areas of expertise (Evo Psy, Pos Psy, Evolution, and Philosophy) there is nothing audiobooks can give me anymore. So I’m learning linguistics, economics and Anthropology.
My question to fellow less wrongers is: There is widespread rumor that the free days of finding good books, audiobooks, movies, and music on the internet are counted. Should we download Loads of good material, and keep it safe?
I was not aware of this rumor. How did you come to the conclusion it is widespread, and why do you think it’s worth taking seriously?
Several P2P websites were taken down, some, like piratebay, had to change location. Most important I think is that the old Gigapedia, which became Library.nu went down. It probably had the best books online. Things are scattering now. It is widespread in Brazil where I live (though websites are down everywhere). I also noted it on the SI fellows list. I think it is a cheap time effort investment to take it seriously.
I find it somewhat difficult to believe that you’ve maxed out your knowledge “philosophy” obtainable from audiobooks! But only somewhat, if you care to inform me that there is simply a terrible drought of philosophy audiobooks.
This comment is oddly prescient. Yesterday, I downloaded several books from libgen.info. Today, when I attempted to do so a bit more, I find that libgen.info is gone. library.nu and libgen.info were the best, or perhaps only decent book pirating websites. Now there is basically nowhere to get free pirated books online.
Edit: And now I find that this comment is premature; libgen.info is back up. Shocking scare, though.
Edit: And now I see that previous edit was premature; libgen.info is down again.
Edit: It is back up. I give up.
There is at least one community that does (properly) free audiobooks: LibriVox. However, they are restricted to public domain works, so their catalog is restricted (it consists mostly of old works that have gone out of copyright).
They have a fairly large number of audiobooks categorised as non-fiction (although the bible appears to be put in this category). Also, the free restriction means that modern/up-to-date courses are likely to be hard to come by (that said, I don’t really know that much about LibriVox’s catalog, and I’d be very happy to be proved wrong).
If you spend enough time looking you can find some higher level stuff. But, yeah, unfortunately I mostly end up listening to intro stuff of various disciplines.
Things seem to be getting worse for internet piracy, but if you use stuff to hide your IP and go to private torrent sites things will probably still be great.