Audio for Unabridged Cryptonomicon and Zodiac

OMFG I have been waiting for an unabridged Cryptonomicon for ages! I just wish I knew before I used this month's credits.

Wouldn't an unabridged audio Crytonomicon take, like, seven years to listen to?

I mean, I loved the book, but you could use it to kill small animals.

Even the paperback.

It will be nice when we can finally buy these without DRM infections.

dglewis@2, it's 40 hours. I noticed it show up in this week's dump of new Audible titles and had already bought it before I saw this. It's definitely my second-favorite Stephenson, behind Snow Crash. Now all we need is unabridged audio for the Baroque Cycle.

Be aware, it's a 2-credit book. But at 40 hours I don't think that's a huge problem.

By the way, the Jonathan Davis narrated unabridged version of Snow Crash is awesome, very well done, in my opinion.

Excellent, whoever thought the "unabridged excerpts" route was a good idea needs to be slapped.

How does the size of this one compare to Anathem? I have that as unabridged audio and it's great. I also got the music based on it and used for section breaks, great stuff.

Anathem is 32 hours, so this is 25% longer. Read by William Dufris, so one of the readers for Anathem. I have it, have not listened to it yet, though.

Now if only Audible would drop the DRM, I'd buy one.

Church@7, it is possible to get rid of the DRM, if your google-fu is strong. Or for that matter, they let you burn to CD so you can always burn to CD and then rip it, for a small loss in fidelity. Audible's pretty agressive about getting web pages taken down that describe how, so I won't do so here. However, Audible's DRM, when combined with itunes/ipod meets my criteria for being non-offensive.

a) It just works, and when I upgrade or swap out ipods I don't have to do anything. I'm on my fifth one right now, with two swapped out under warranty.

b) They give me the works at a significant discount to the non-DRM'd versions available. Audible credits work out to about $10 each, depending on which plan you're on, and it's not uncommon at all for works to be available for a single $10 credit that would have been $50-60 on CD.

b is the clincher, if you're going to take something from me, via DRM, you have to give me something back. And here, they have.