Does anyone know of a copy of Permaculture A Designers Manual in audiobook form free or paid that I could find and download?
I own the actual book but I find that I have little time to read it but plenty of time to listen to audio books so this would be a great option for me as well as for may people.
This would be the kind of project I think we'd need to crowd fund. Perhaps we could contact the publisher with a copyright proposal. I'm legally blind and any visual input is tedious, to say the least and heavily dependent on fickle text-to-speech software. Good to know there might already be a support base for such an endeavor.
At a guess you would be looking at least 100 hours of audio, and good voice artists are not cheap to hire. Then there is the post editing and production. I suspect that this would easily cost £10,000 to produce when all is done, and that for a text book that hasn't been reprinted since 1998, indicating that the demand isn't there for it.
I love audiobooks, and listen to a lot of stuff on them, but I can't see this being a good candidate for it from a commercial perspective.
Indeed. There is also the challenge of interpreting all of the graphical content and tables into an aural delivery. No simple task from any perspective, but I do feel that demand for this book will revive as Permaculture continues to demonstrate solutions for heretofore insoluble problems. One can dream.
Thank you, Anne! I'll try to contact the library. If it's already recorded, it would merely be an issue of getting it legally reformatted to digital audio.
I too would be interested. I have never purchased or read a permaculture book. This is because as I have delved further into permaculture my life has become busier.
I love reading books, but haven't finished a book in the last few years.
I do listen to audio while I garden, however.
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His brain is the size of a cherry pit! About the size of this ad:
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