This is ‘machinma-audiobook’ of Neil Postman’s famous book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. It was made using Mac’s voice synthesis that, after the voice named “Alex” was included, actually became usable. You can what Alex sounds like here. File is in compressed with AAC encoding, bookmarked and ready to land into your player.

Neil_Postman_-_Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death.part1.rar
Neil_Postman_-_Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death.part2.rar
Neil_Postman_-_Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death.part3.rar
Neil_Postman_-_Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death.part4.rar

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Alas, even the workers in the factories can listen to this audiobook now!

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