Hack a Super Easy Audiobook Player

[jesse_the_k]

contents: outdated language, patronizing assumptions, great tech

A creative way to reuse an out-of-date Android 4.4 (or better) smartphone/tablet: transform to an MP3 audio player with the most direct UI I've ever seen.

Exact step-by-step details from the inventor, Marcin Simonides:

http://msimonides.github.io/homerplayer

If you live in the United States and can't read regular print because of any impairment, NLS (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) provides thousands of books for free.

http://nls.loc.gov

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I miss the NLS, they used to send me books on cassette when I was a kid. :)

[jesse_the_k]

Doesn't the RNIB provide a similar service?

I remember reading where folks had to pay to use a library. Are free libraries even a thing in the UK?

[cosmolinguist]

Oh, definitely! I have a public library about a minute's walk away from me. And they do have audiobooks (a kind of limited selection, but I can easily get anything from any Manchester library branch; there are many). And yes the RNIB does do a similar thing.

[replyhazy]

Wow. This is cool.

I wonder if my mom is doing audio books at all. If she wears her headphones, her hearing impairment doesn't come into play, and she does not have to constantly hold the e-reader as when she reads.

I'll be checking this out.

[untonuggan]

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