FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 13 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• £1.99 -- Just William -- Richmal Crompton --> kids 5-7

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 13 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $1.95 -- The Sentient Machine -- Amir Husain --> NF technology
  
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* The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Daily Deals -- exp 13 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $1.95 -- The Sentient Machine -- Amir Husain --> NF technology
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> TBA

* The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

To tubemonkey: offerings from Downpour and eStories have been so sparse lately. Do you sometimes wonder if it's worth the trouble to check everyday to see if they have specials? Speaking only for myself, I would not be bothered at all if you just quit checking them. But thanks for past efforts, and future ones if you do go ahead and keep checking.

I hate being a curmudgeon (well, no, I actually rather like it ), but publication of the audio book on artificial intelligence is just about 2 years old. That subject seems to be so much on the cutting edge that I wonder if a lot of what it says is out-of-date. I am wondering if maybe people interested in the subject would be better served by reading magazines on the subject and/or following very reputable websites that cover that subject.

Just some musings . . . .

[elaysee]

I barely have time to lurk these days, so sorry if I missed an earlier post.

There's a Humble Bundle of audiobooks from Games Workshop/Black Library's SF/F Warhammer universe (DRM-free MP3). The $1 tier includes 3 longer works, 2 shorts, and a sampler, with 17 additional items at the $10 and $18 tiers. Runs for another 13 days.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 14 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- The Dispatcher -- John Scalzi --> sci-fi

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 14 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> TBA -- Before She Was Found -- Heather Gudenkauf --> thriller
  
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• eStories --> TBA

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I hate being a curmudgeon (well, no, I actually rather like it ), but publication of the audio book on artificial intelligence is just about 2 years old. That subject seems to be so much on the cutting edge that I wonder if a lot of what it says is out-of-date. I am wondering if maybe people interested in the subject would be better served by reading magazines on the subject and/or following very reputable websites that cover that subject.

Just some musings . . . .

It's not an either/or. Books (good ones anyway) will give you a foundation, and depth and perspective on how we got to the state of the art that you won't get from web or journal articles. They help you understand why some roads were followed and others were abandoned. Then you catch up on what has happened since with (good) articles, and you're likely to better understand them.
This is why college courses in cutting edge fields still have textbooks.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ApK

It's not an either/or. Books (good ones anyway) will give you a foundation, and depth and perspective on how we got to the state of the art that you won't get from web or journal articles. They help you understand why some roads were followed and others were abandoned. Then you catch up on what has happened since with (good) articles, and you're likely to better understand them.
This is why college courses in cutting edge fields still have textbooks.

After reading your post, I think that I completely agree with you. A theme seems to run through your post: history (history in the sense of what is recorded about the past) changes very little, so the audiobook to which we refer, might be excellent for giving the greatly important background and history of the study of artificial intelligence. Kudos.

It's been a while since I took a college class, but I know that things have changed a lot with textbooks, too, with the coming of the digital revolution. There are etextbooks, POD (Print On Demand) textbooks, and Open Access textbooks, et al. that you can download immediately. But even those obviously cannot give you up-to-the-minute information! There must be a lag--it must take some time to write it, add new information to it, print it, etc.; that's obvious.

Our audio book under consideration may not (I haven't listened to it) make any claim to containing the most recent information. But, one thing that surely appears not to have changed, and that is that professors are expected to keep up with new developments in their fields of study, and impart their knowledge of it (as needed) on a level that their students can understand). But a student in a traditional class needs to show up for classes to get the information! ). The same principle would have to hold true for those taking online classes )

Kudos, again, for your post. It gave me a lot of food for thought!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

To tubemonkey: offerings from Downpour and eStories have been so sparse lately. Do you sometimes wonder if it's worth the trouble to check everyday to see if they have specials? Speaking only for myself, I would not be bothered at all if you just quit checking them. But thanks for past efforts, and future ones if you do go ahead and keep checking.

It takes less than a minute to scan both stores to see if they have anything, so I'm not bothered by it.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by elaysee

I barely have time to lurk these days, so sorry if I missed an earlier post.

There's a Humble Bundle of audiobooks from Games Workshop/Black Library's SF/F Warhammer universe (DRM-free MP3). The $1 tier includes 3 longer works, 2 shorts, and a sampler, with 17 additional items at the $10 and $18 tiers. Runs for another 13 days.

Thanks for posting, and you haven't missed anything. I haven't posted a Humble Bundle deal in ages. I'll add this deal to the OP.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

• £2.99 -- The Cobra -- Frederick Forsyth --> thriller

[tubemonkey]

Amazon Original Stories -- KU/Prime only -- rental only

This is Amazon's latest collection of Original Stories

FREE -- Nameless (Season 1) -- Dean Koontz/ Edoardo Ballerini -- thriller

1. In the Heart of the Fire -- 1.5 hrs
   
2. Photographing the Dead -- 1.3 hrs
   
3. The Praying Mantis Bride -- 1.3 hrs
   
4. Red Rain -- 1.1 hrs
   
5. The Mercy of Snakes -- 1.3 hrs
   
6. Memories of Tomorrow -- 1.3 hrs

A killer serial

If our memories make us who we are, who is a man without any? Nameless has only a gun, missions from a shadowy agency, and one dead aim: dispense justice when the law fails. As he moves from town to town, driven by splintered visions of the past and future, he's headed toward the ultimate confrontation in this propulsive series of short thrillers by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

6 short Kindle books with audio narration

FREE -- Nameless (Season 2) --> details

Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle. Past collections include the Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Studios joint acquisition The Fairer Sex by Michelle Miller, Warmer by Lauren Groff, Jane Smiley, Jess Walter, and more, and Dark Corners, which features Lisa Unger’s Edgar Award-nominated short The Sleep Tight Motel. Each story is available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and is available for download for non-subscribers beginning at $1.99.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 15 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $4.95 -- Norco '80 -- Peter Houlahan --> NF history
  
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• eStories --> TBA

* Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK

There's a 2-for-1 sale going on. Since I don't have a paid membership, I can't see the details.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Daily Deals -- exp 15 Nov @ 11:59 PM PT
[LIST][*]Audible ---> $4.95 -- Norco '80 -- Peter Houlahan --> NF history
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Not one to listen to when you go nighty-night.