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My partner's Mum is 85 and can't see very well any more. Struggles to read.
She's a massive Barbra Streisand fan and I would have loved to get her a new Audiobook that's out by the aforementioned Streisand for her birthday.
Trouble is, she's 85, doesn't have internet at home. She has a cd player and a basic smartphone but struggles to use it without throwing her toys out of the pram.
I had thought that maybe I could buy the audiobook myself and then maybe get someone with the tech to rip it to cds, but for a start, it's 48 hours long! That's a lot of cds potentially.
Also, after looking into it a bit I don't think it's possible with the file format used by Audible (.aa I think).
So, can anyone think of a way to cleverly or blatantly obviously get around this?
Or maybe there is some kind of very simple device capable of playing audiobooks I've not come across?
I thought maybe I could buy a cheap mp3 player but I don't believe they play audiobook files.
Any other ideas or obvious things I've missed?
It's easy to convert Audible files to mp3 (or an other audio format) using audiamus.
Could you get her an mp3 cd player and put books as mp3s on a CD?
Edit: assumes you can still buy mp3 CD player.
Edit of edit:
Yes you can: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/oakcastle-cd100-bluetooth-personal-cd-player-black-10221207.html
It’s easy to convert Audible files to mp3 (or an other audio format) using audiamus.
Would it not have some sort of anti-piracy shizzle built in?
I think maybe that approach is out as 48 hours of cds is an awful lot of cds I'd think.
See if your local library uses the Borrowbox app. It is possible to download the entire audiobook and play on a free app like Sirin. The book is essentially yours until you delete it. I use this a lot and it works well.
See if your local library uses the Borrowbox app. It is possible to download the entire audiobook and play on a free app like Sirin
It's not the download that's the quandary. It's the playing it.
I can actually get the book free with an Audible free trial, but she's very non-tech literate, doesn't have internet, doesn't understand apps and never will I doubt.
Also, she lives in Manchester and we live in Warwickshire so can't simply pop round any time she can't work something.
Edit. Would a Kindle do it? Do they have physical headphone sockets?
Kindles can either read (with text to speech) or play (via audible I want to say) audiobooks. Older Kindles (keyboard ones for sure) have headphones ports.
Alternatively, an echo device will play without a screen, plus a WiFi hotspot with a cheap sim card in?
Also looks like audible sinks to offline mp3 players.. https://help.audible.com.au/s/article/listen-with-audiblesync?language=en_AU