Comments on: Infinite Sunday http://outsidecat.com/wordvehicle/archives/734 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dingledoodie http://outsidecat.com/wordvehicle/archives/734/comment-page-1#comment-102750 Dingledoodie Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:13:42 +0000 http://outsidecat.com/wordvehicle/?p=734#comment-102750 I would really love Infinite Jest in audiobook format as I have a two-bus, one hour, commute to and from work every day and diobooks are keeping me sane. But, I can't find it anywhere. Indeed, a Google search for "Infinite Jest audiobook" lead me to this page!!! It seems strange that it isn't available in this format yet as Pale King is already on sale as an audiobook. You mentioned that there could be issues with the footnotes in the novel when in audiobook format. However, I just listened to this radio documentary about DFW (http://youtu.be/DIjS4K2mQKY) and some excerpts from Infinite Jest are read out and the footnotes handled fine, I think. I would really love Infinite Jest in audiobook format as I have a two-bus, one hour, commute to and from work every day and diobooks are keeping me sane. But, I can’t find it anywhere. Indeed, a Google search for “Infinite Jest audiobook” lead me to this page!!! It seems strange that it isn’t available in this format yet as Pale King is already on sale as an audiobook.

You mentioned that there could be issues with the footnotes in the novel when in audiobook format. However, I just listened to this radio documentary about DFW (http://youtu.be/DIjS4K2mQKY) and some excerpts from Infinite Jest are read out and the footnotes handled fine, I think.

]]> By: Jake http://outsidecat.com/wordvehicle/archives/734/comment-page-1#comment-47858 Jake Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:28:09 +0000 http://outsidecat.com/wordvehicle/?p=734#comment-47858 It's embarrassing how excited I am at the ways you and LibraryThing can contribute to the IJOSASa/oBC. Its tags and algorithms reminded me of another book-categorization system I stumbled upon recently called statistically improbable phrases, which basically compiles phrases that are occur in a given book but hardly any other. I think Amazon uses it. Here are some of the SIPs for <i>IJ</i>: say her momma, entertainment cartridges, dawn drills, waste displacement, annular fusion, professional conversationalist, feral hamsters, new bong, ceiling bulged, red leather coat, appropriation artist, red beanie, addicted man, littler kids, little rotter, land barge, veiled girl, technical interview, police lock, oral narcotics, milk dispenser, goddamn lie, sober time, his racquet It’s embarrassing how excited I am at the ways you and LibraryThing can contribute to the IJOSASa/oBC. Its tags and algorithms reminded me of another book-categorization system I stumbled upon recently called statistically improbable phrases, which basically compiles phrases that are occur in a given book but hardly any other. I think Amazon uses it.

Here are some of the SIPs for IJ: say her momma, entertainment cartridges, dawn drills, waste displacement, annular fusion, professional conversationalist, feral hamsters, new bong, ceiling bulged, red leather coat, appropriation artist, red beanie, addicted man, littler kids, little rotter, land barge, veiled girl, technical interview, police lock, oral narcotics, milk dispenser, goddamn lie, sober time, his racquet

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