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Can someone make Paul Graham's essays into an audio book?

9 points by Ian999 ↗ HN
Walking around campus takes about 15 minutes. Would be perfect to listen to a Paul Graham essay each day. Please don't complain that I am lazy - I tend to remember certain things much better through hearing.

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ScottWhigham
What am I missing here? At first (and third) glance, this seems pedantic, unthinking, and yes, lazy. In the time it took you to think of this idea and write this post, you could've recorded half of one into your phone's voice memo thing, couldn't you? Then you'd have it twice - once while you recorded it and once when you listened to it.

Besides, there is copyright to be concerned with - maybe pg doesn't want some random 3rd party releasing his works in any format. Who knows - maybe behind the scenes he's already had this idea, has hired a VO actor, and is doing it already.

ScottWhigham
I'd love to hear from anyone who has the courage to explain their downvote. Was it the copyright comment? I know how the teens and 20-somethings here love to hate on copyright so that's my guess. Or was it the calling the guy out for even asking the question? Hell, I don't care which I'd just like to hear from someone what it was. It won't likely change my thoughts but it seems childish to vote down something just b/c you disagree. I'm assuming that's what has happened here and I'm curious to see if anyone has the courage to say, "I voted it down and here's why."
S4M
I agree with you (in fact, I upvoted you), but your tone might be a bit aggressive.
xauronx
Because it's just a stupid response. It's like someone saying "I could really use a SAAS that does [X]" and you going "You're so lazy, what a stupid question". I know we're all hackers here and we're supposed to just magically obtain the time, means and expertise to create any product we desire.

Obviously going onto a forum and asking people to steal/repurpose/redistribute someone else's work is a poor idea, but it's very possible OP was looking for someone to say "they already have them here [link]" or "hey, I'm a voice actor, if PG says it's ok that would be an awesome project" or something.

I think just scolding the guy and calling him lazy was a poor approach, and although I can't and didn't down vote you, I thought I would explain my reasoning.