Re: Fabric of reality audiobook?
"Brett Hall [email protected] [Fabric-of-Reality]" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:44:37 +1000
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--Apple-Mail-71C930D7-1E1B-4054-83AE-6CCEFFCB6BC8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > On 16 Apr 2015, at 03:00, David Deutsch david.deutsch-LR/[email protected] [Fabr= ic-of-Reality] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 15 Apr 2= 015, at 12:50, [email protected] [Fabric-of-Reality] <Fabric-o= [email protected]> wrote: >> >> HI David, >> >> I bought the Begi= nning of Reality audiobook (and the book too) from audible and I've listene= d to it more than any other audiobook. It's a great listen. >> > Thanks. >= > Do you have any plans on creating a Fabric of Reality auidobook? If you = do, I'd certainly hope that you'd use the same excellent narrator. >> >> T= hanks >> >> Posted by: [email protected] Agreed! An interest= ing thing is going back to FoR with "new eyes" having read BoI a couple of = times and noting how significant themes are very much there in the earlier = book like fungability and the centrality of science as good *explanation*. = > > Unfortunately I have no say in the matter. I'm hoping that Penguin = Books will eventually realise that since the print version is still selling= , there'll be a market for an audiobook. > > For BoI they didn't send me a= n advance copy to proof-listen, so there are some mistakes. Nothing too ser= ious, and I'm glad it didn't spoil your enjoyment. > > -- David Deutsch C= hris, I couldn't agree more and would love to be able to listen to FoR. I r= ecently had to replace one copy of my almost-2-decade old FoR paperback due= to taking it on one too many journeys. Perhaps if we begin to independentl= y contact Penguin this might help? Contact details are hard to come by, but= buried on their UK website are some email details: http://www.penguin.co.u= k/help/#question12 Maybe this address? [email protected] A= n argument can surely be made that all those who listened to BoI would want= more? The natural next thing to want to listen to would be FoR? I have no= ticed lots more people asking about "time" on social media recently: I don'= t know why (maybe that "Interstellar" movie which is just now available for= purchase/viewing on tv) but have been directing them towards Ch 11, Time. = Others have been talking about some of what Sam Harris, and others, have sa= id recently about "consciousness" and I've found material in Ch 5 (Virtual = Reality) equally useful. So FoR seems to me to be more relevant than ever (= not least that the first 4 chapters on Quantum Theory, Reality and Problem = Solving really need to be better understood by anyone working, or with an i= nterest, in physical science, especially). Brett. > --Apple-Mail-71C930D7-1E1B-4054-83AE-6CCEFFCB6BC8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style="background-color: #fff;"> <span style="display:none"> </span> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text" > <p><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>On 16 Apr 2015, at 03:00, David Deutsch <a href="mailto:david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]">david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]</a> [Fabric-of-Reality] <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <span> </span> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>On 15 Apr 2015, at 12:50, <a href="mailto:[email protected]" class>[email protected]</a> [Fabric-of-Reality] <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" class>[email protected]</a>> wrote:</p><div><blockquote type="cite" class><div class><p style="padding: 15px 0px 3px;overflow: hidden;font-family: Monaco;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;" class><span class>HI David,</span></p><p style="padding: 15px 0px 3px;overflow: hidden;font-family: Monaco;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;" class><span class>I bought the Beginning of Reali ty audiobook </span><span style="word-spacing: normal;" class>(and the book too)</span><span style="word-spacing: normal;" class> from audible and I've listened to it more than any other audiobook. It's a great listen.</span></p><div class><br class></div></div></blockquote>Thanks.<br class><blockquote type="cite" class><p style="padding: 15px 0px 3px;overflow: hidden;font-family: Monaco;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;" class><span style="word-spacing: normal;" class>Do you have any plans on creating a Fabric of Reality auidobook? If you do, I'd certainly hope that you'd use the same excellent narrator.</span></p><p style="padding: 15px 0px 3px;overflow: hidden;font-fami ly: Monaco;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;" class><span style="word-spacing: normal;" class>Thanks</span></p><div id="fromDMARC" style="font-family: Monaco;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;" class>Posted by:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]" class>[email protected]</a></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span>Agreed! An interesting thing is going back to FoR with "new eyes" having read BoI a couple of times and noting how significant themes are very much there in the earlier book like fungability and the centrality of science as good *explanation*. </span></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="ygrp-msg"><div id="ygrp-text"><div><div><br class></div>Unfortunately I have no say in the matter. I'm hoping that Penguin Books will eventually realise that since the print version is still selling, there'll be a market for an audiobook.</div><div><br class></div><div>For BoI they didn't send me an advance copy to proof-listen, so there are some mistakes. Nothing too serious, and I'm glad it didn't spoil your enjoyment.</div><div><br class></div><div>-- David Deutsch<br class></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Chris, I couldn't agree more and would love to be able to listen to FoR. I recently had to replace one copy of my almost-2-decade old FoR paperback due to taking it on one too many journeys. Perhaps if we begin to independently contact Penguin this might help? Contact details are hard to come by, but buried on their UK website are some email details: <a href="http://www.penguin.co.uk/help/#question12">http://www.penguin.co.uk/help/#question12</a></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe this address? <span><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</span></div><div><br></div><div>An argument can surely be made that all those who listened to BoI would want more? The natural next thing to want to listen to would be FoR?</div><div><br></div><div>I have noticed lots more people asking about "ti me" on social media recently: I don't know why (maybe that "Interstellar" movie which is just now available for purchase/viewing on tv) but have been directing them towards Ch 11, Time. Others have been talking about some of what Sam Harris, and others, have said recently about "consciousness" and I've found material in Ch 5 (Virtual Reality) equally useful. So FoR seems to me to be more relevant than ever (not least that the first 4 chapters on Quantum Theory, Reality and Problem Solving really need to be better understood by anyone working, or with an interest, in physical science, especially).</div><div><br></div><div>Brett.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="color: #fff;height: 0;"></div> <!-- end group email --> </blockquote></p> </div> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--> <div style="color: #fff; height: 0;">__._,_.___</div> <div style="clear:both"> </div> <div id="fromDMARC" style="margin-top: 10px;"> <hr style="height:2px ; border-width:0; color:#E3E3E3; background-color:#E3E3E3;"> Posted by: Brett Hall <[email protected]> <hr style="height:2px ; border-width:0; color:#E3E3E3; background-color:#E3E3E3;"> </div> <div style="clear:both"> </div> <table cellspacing=4px style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #2D50FD;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; padding: 7px 5px 5px;" > <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #2D50FD" href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Fabric-of-Reality/conversations/messages/25693;_ylc=X3oDMTJxYmtoYnJiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE4ODg2MDAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDIwNTg1BG1zZ0lkAzI1NjkzBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTQyOTEzNzI5MA--?act=reply&messageNum=25693">Reply via web post</a> </td> <td>•</td> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; padding: 7px 5px 5px;" > <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fabric%20of%20reality%20audiobook%3F" style="text-decoration: none; color: #2D50FD;"> Reply to sender </a> </td> <td>•</td> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; padding: 7px 5px 5px;"> <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fabric%20of%20reality%20audiobook%3F" style="text-decoration: none; color: #2D50FD"> Reply to group </a> </td> <td>•</td> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; padding: 7px 5px 5px;" > <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Fabric-of-Reality/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZjJhb2F0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE4ODg2MDAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDIwNTg1BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTQyOTEzNzI5MA--" style="text-decoration: none; color: #2D50FD">Start a New Topic</a> </td> <td>•</td> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; padding: 7px 5px 5px;color: #2D50FD;" > <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Fabric-of-Reality/conversations/topics/25691;_ylc=X3oDMTM2MWxtNW9nBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE4ODg2MDAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDIwNTg1BG1zZ0lkAzI1NjkzBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTQyOTEzNzI5MAR0cGNJZAMyNTY5MQ--" style="text-decoration: none; color: #2D50FD;">Messages in this topic</a> (3) </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!------- Start Nav Bar ------> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-vital" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 10px;"> <span id="vithd" style="font-weight: bold; color: #333; text-transform: uppercase; "><a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Fabric-of-Reality/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJlamJsc3E1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE4ODg2MDAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDIwNTg1BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTQyOTEzNzI5MA--" style="text-decoration: none;">Visit Your Group</a></span> <ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: inline;"> </ul> </div> <div id="ft" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0 2px 0 0; clear: both;"> <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJkdmEwaTNuBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzE4ODg2MDAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDIwNTg1BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxNDI5MTM3Mjkw" style="float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/ru/static/images/yg/img/email/new_logo/logo-groups-137x15.png" height="15" width="137" alt="Yahoo! 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