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miriam_eThis has got to be the weirdest audio file I've ever found:
http://librivox.org/the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi/
I'm usually satisfied with using a calculator to get enough digits. If I don't have a calculator handy (rare these days) then the old mnemonic "How I wish I could enumerate pi easily" works well enough (the number of letters in each word corresponds to the first 8 digits of pi). If, for some odd reason I ever need more digits I can always download the Project Gutenberg ebook:
PI to a Million Places
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/pimil10.zip
...though other than mawkish interest I can't imagine ever needing it. (Um, yes, I have it already. [blush])
On a slightly more lively tack, librivox have a whole lot of free audiobooks -- 1,301 of them so far. Neat! They have some of the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars series up there. A rollicking good politically incorrect bunch of adventures from a time when men were men, women were helpless, and bug-eyed monsters fought with swords. I loved these as a kid. Wonder what I'd think these days... Must have a read of them again. All the text ebooks are up on Gutenberg. (Yep I've got 'em all as paper and electronic. How embarrassing.)
http://librivox.org/the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi/
I'm usually satisfied with using a calculator to get enough digits. If I don't have a calculator handy (rare these days) then the old mnemonic "How I wish I could enumerate pi easily" works well enough (the number of letters in each word corresponds to the first 8 digits of pi). If, for some odd reason I ever need more digits I can always download the Project Gutenberg ebook:
PI to a Million Places
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/pimil10.zip
...though other than mawkish interest I can't imagine ever needing it. (Um, yes, I have it already. [blush])
On a slightly more lively tack, librivox have a whole lot of free audiobooks -- 1,301 of them so far. Neat! They have some of the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars series up there. A rollicking good politically incorrect bunch of adventures from a time when men were men, women were helpless, and bug-eyed monsters fought with swords. I loved these as a kid. Wonder what I'd think these days... Must have a read of them again. All the text ebooks are up on Gutenberg. (Yep I've got 'em all as paper and electronic. How embarrassing.)
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Date: 2008-03-24 05:19 am (UTC)The first time I'd delayed reading the book for about a week to do some work and in the meantime the computer crashed really badly. I reinstalled MSWindows and suddenly the ebook didn't believe I'd bought it anymore.
The second time I'd bought an ebook and soon after my hard drive died. I replaced the hard drive and upgraded the computer and the ebook would no longer open for me.
The idiots had locked the book to the equipment. The equipment changes and I can no longer use the book. Dumbasses!
Baen Books (http://www.baen.com/) (SF publishers) have been doing a roaring trade selling unencumbered unencrypted ebooks for some years. All the other ebook sellers with their terrible wares are having a hard time of it. That's gotta say something.
I don't buy encrypted ebooks anymore. I can't afford to waste the money.