Library CDs

It probably will not surprise you at all to learn that not everyone who borrows audiobooks from the library bothers to take care of them. End result, of course is that listening to them, ripping them to a hard drive or otherwise trying to actually getting through an entire book without either error or my hair turning the rest of the way grey is simply not possible.

Of course,  I do have an audible membership and could possibly buy a number of the books. But since the library has them, I figure why not listen to them on the library’s (and my taxes) dime. Buying them would cost more than a dime and frankly there are not all that many books which are worth listening to more than once.

I don’t think the problem is my CD player. In fact, we have several floating around and I have tried three so far in the attempt to get this particular book to the point where I might possibly be able to listen to the whole thing. Perhaps the most critical disks are the first and last.

So guess which ones seem to be the most damaged? At the moment I am on disk 8/12 and 61 minutes into attempting to import it to iTunes.  Not the whole book, mind you – just this one disk. Considering that the average disk plays in 45-75 minutes – the scope of the problem should be obvious.

and which CD? Well, the first one to start with won’t load – and it all went down hill from there….

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to Library CDs

  1. Cat says:

    I haven’t borrowed CDs. I did borrow a couple of DVDs for the Senior Cat but faced the same sort of issues. It drives the library staff mad too.

    • Holly Doyne says:

      Brand new CDs work. And mostly they are readable. But there are just too many people who don’t take care of them. Optical readers just don’t deal well with scratches…

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