Monday, September 30, 2013

#17 - Japanese Book Library

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I've just got Japanese book library collection with more than 500 titles, most of which can hardly be found on the Internet.
But for now the most important thing for me is that it has Ryunosuke Akutagawa's several novels in English. Although it's a shame that less than 10 of his titles have been translated yet, out of more than 100. It is really a shame, cause he really write great things.

And it's pity that I don't know Japanese (well, just a little bit maybe) and can't read him in original =_=

The Library in English | Ryunosuke Akutagawa in Japanese

Sunday, September 29, 2013

#16 - Audible to MP3 and free audiobooks

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If you have never used Audible, but you love audiobooks, then you must used at least one. Why? It has a library of more than 150 000 titles in audio, most of which you will not be able to find at torrents or file-sharing services. Thus, sometimes it is really worth to buy and to download, but not just to download.

The only problem is the extension and the type of Audible files (.aa) which is supported only by Audible Manager and iTunes

But, lol, everything is solvable.

So, a little how-to:


Part #1


  • Download and install VirtualCD without active Internet connection (turn the Internet off before the install process starts)
  • Download and install Audible Manager and iTunes.
  • Purchase a book-you-want (by the way, Audible offers one free book and a 30-day trial subscription for free). For example, click here to start a free trial with "All you need is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Recommended ^^
  • Before the purchase note that you should have active Amazon.com account and an active Debit/Card linked with it.

Part #2

  • After the purchase go to "Purchases" and download the chapter of the book (They should automatically open in Audible Manager). Now wait till all downloads finish.
  • Now go to the Audible directory you used before downloading your book and copy all the .aa files to the music folder connected with iTunes
  • Open iTunes - wait a couple of seconds - Choose My Library/Books/Audiobooks and here they are.

Part #3

  • Start "VirtualCD v10" and click "Manage Images in the new window".
  • In the opened window right click on "Virtual Burner" - "Create a blank virtual medium" - "CD-R(W)" - "CD-RW".
  • Now return to iTunes and create a new playlist that contains all the chapters of the audiobook. Then go to Music/Playlists - Choose your newly created playlist - click on the gear icon (you can found in the bottom left corner of iTunes window) - Burn Playlist to Disk - Choose the drive with virtual CD-RW in it that you created before.
  • 1 CD will not be enough and therefore just create a new CD-RW in the same drive each time iTunes asks you to insert a blank CD.

Part #4

  • When iTunes is done, insert double-click on the first CD iTunes burned. 
  • Now return to iTunes and select the CD-disk from "My Library" option list.
  • "Import to iTunes" and wait till iTunes converts the CD tracks to .mp3 files.
  • Repeat the action with each CD left.

That's all.
わたしわあなったお助けてうれしい。

Monday, September 16, 2013

#15 - Music Library

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Hey, what's up? It's been 3 weeks since my last post already. And, well, these 3 weeks were.. I dunno, they were kinda unusual for me. But, anyway, I ain't gonna write about what has happened in these 3 weeks - I'm here for another thing.

I've decided to upload all of my music and photos to Google Drive (at the same time I keep my documents and e-books on SkyDrive) and to make a public access to my music library. It's not too big, only 10 GB (+Unsorted 8 GB, but I do not share them, cause I haven't listened to them still), but it's rather good, imo.

You can simply click here. And if you want to read about contents of my library, you can read this post.


The question with music has been sorted now for now. And now we come to scans: I will get the scanner in the late Sept - early Oct. Not Nov, fortunately.

And the first scan will be "Code Geass - Stage 0", yup.


 
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