Tony Horwitz relates his travels in the south and his adventures with a hard core re-enactor Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Bradley Garrett visits survivalist entrepreneurs and the compounds they’ve engineered hoping to make money off of well-heeled preppers Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
I just noticed that Audible has recently added the majority of the Modern Scholar courses to its free-with-membership Plus Catalog.
The Modern Scholar is a since-discontinued series of lecture series similar to The Great Courses. The overall average level of quality is IMHO below that of The Great Courses, but some are quite good. In particular, Michael Drout is a very engaging lecturer. And there are good series by H. W. Brands, Joseph Ellis, and Robert Dallek if you like American history.
Does Audible still have DRM on all their audiobooks? Meaning you can’t share a book, or even move it to another device?
I buy my audiobooks from Libro.fm or other sites where I get “clean” mp3s that I can move from PC to laptop to iPad to phone without any trouble.
The first time I bought a 'book that turned out to be from Audible, it was one long (huge) file, and was locked down pretty tight. I could only listen to it on the phone I downloaded it to.
You have to* listen to Audible audiobooks with a version of the Audible app that you’re signed into, but you can do so on multiple devices, and it will even sync and remember your place so that you can easily switch between “PC to laptop to iPad to phone.”
* Audible uses AAX files, which do have DRM. There are ways of coverting these to “clean” mp3 files, but that may get into a legal gray area.
I agree! My district library co-op has an incredible selection of resources that goes way beyond fiction and nonfiction books.
Professional collections pertaining to business science health art and more.
I recently discovered it has the Rosetta Stone language immersion courses.
An incredible benefit for a minor tax cost.
I use Audible every day, so I do recommend it.
As for recommendations of listening (and hard sci-fi to boot) I’ll start with The 3 Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu, narrated by Bruno Roubicek. Amazing and huge.
Peter Kenny’s narration of Iain M Banks’ Culture novels is great, and I love Michael Sheen’s narration of Philip Pullman’s books.
I’ve just finished listening to The Vorrh Trilogy by B Catling, read by Alan Corduner, and while I absolutely loved their brilliance and breadth, I still don’t understand what they were really about!
I hope you enjoy them.
MiM