My Book Is Being Held Hostage!
I think I hate electronics. I’ve spent hour upon hour this weekend fighting with my PC, iTunes and my iPod Touch. They used to work just fine but I made a purchase on iTunes and then discovered I can no longer sync the iPod and transfer the purchase. The only thing I can think of that has changed since I last synced it successfully was an update to the newest version of iTunes and, although I’ve read many, many forums and message boards about the problem, none of the suggested fixes have worked, including an iTunes uninstall and reinstall.
Now, the reason I’m agitated about this has nothing to do with not being able to listen to my music. It’s BOOKS I can’t get to and, as any true bibliophile will tell you, the fact that I have other sources of reading material does not make me feel better. I can’t get to the book I just bought and that is the ONE book I must have. Now. How dare these machines keep me from that treasure??
I have turned into an audio book addict. I still read print books and will continue to do so as long as I can see well enough with a magnifying glass and any other visual aids that might become necessary but audio books have become my reading method of choice. Granted, I’ve come across some that are not especially well done, maybe even downright poor (sometimes because the book itself is just not all that good, sometimes because of the narrator) but, on the whole, I find them to be really entertaining. In many cases, they’ve brought the book to life for me in ways I wouldn’t have expected. A particularly good example is Terry Pratchett’s series featuring Tiffany Aching—Stephen Briggs is simply fabulous as the reader and I’ll beg, buy or borrow anything he does. I also have been entranced by Jayne Entwistle’s reading of Alan Bradley’s books and her dead-on voice of Flavia.
If only somebody would come up with audio ARCs, I’d think I’d died and gone to heaven.
So, Monday I have to head off to the Apple store to see if they can figure out what’s wrong and, if not, then I’ll try my favorite computer store geek. In the meantime, all I can say is thank the gods I have some unread books still on the iPod and a sizeable TBH (To Be Heard) stack of books on CDs.
July 11, 2010
Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller
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