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Old 10-29-2024, 01:47 PM   #3151
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I just came across this list of recommendations of asexual books: https://bsky.app/profile/rainbowcrat.../3l7lz7dsjum2j
Very nice, thank you! Will certainly check them out.
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I really enjoyed The Cybernetic Tea Shop, Meredith Katz.
It's a sweet story and no sweaty passages.
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I really enjoyed The Cybernetic Tea Shop, Meredith Katz.
It's a sweet story and no sweaty passages.
Sweaty passages per se don't bother me - I'd just like to have an occasional protagonist who is not interested in sex and romance at all. If they're interested, then it makes no difference to me whether it's a "clean" romance or a smutty one.
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No, Audible, I’m not going to pay for an audiobook narrated by “Virtual Voice”. I’m not even going to listen to one for free with Audible Plus. So how about letting us filter them out from browsing/searching results?
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No, Audible, I’m not going to pay for an audiobook narrated by “Virtual Voice”. I’m not even going to listen to one for free with Audible Plus. So how about letting us filter them out from browsing/searching results?
I just had a look at Audible US and UK. There is no virtual voice in the UK (yet).
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No, Audible, I’m not going to pay for an audiobook narrated by “Virtual Voice”. I’m not even going to listen to one for free with Audible Plus. So how about letting us filter them out from browsing/searching results?
That's free on Android and iOS anyway, it's just Text to Speech. Pocketbook works nicely on Android for PD content.

Writing of search filters:
Why not by language?
Also Kindle Only search for books from an author doesn't give all the titles, yet has multiple languages.

Why is default always Most Popular or Featured?

Also I don't want to know things (not just Kindle) are "Best Sellers" or "Amazon Recommended" or whatever. Creates unfair positive feed back loops because it does affect people's choice.

KU price more prominent is wrong,
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That's free on Android and iOS anyway, it's just Text to Speech. Pocketbook works nicely on Android for PD content.
There's a possibility that it's more "natural" than garden-variety TTS, but I'm not interested.

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You can filter by language.

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Why is default always Most Popular or Featured?
World of difference there. "Most popular" may be valuable to some buyers, although not to me because my tastes are aberrant. And it does serve to filter out the absolute dreck, or at least bump it down. "Featured" is of value only to the purveyor. It's not as if it's featured because Amazon/Audible is using the wealth of data available to them about my tastes to make targeted recommendations!

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KU price more prominent is wrong,
Yeah. Don't tell me a book is free if you mean "free after paid subscription". That's outright misrepresentation.
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