Re: Audible question -- Is there a way to find out how far through the book one is?
Hi, also in the info dialog you mention in the details tab. Once you move past rating, where it says program type, if you keep listening it will say program length or something like that. that gives you the length of the part you are listening too. If you look at the slider which gives you elapsed time and you look at the info screen for the total time, you can have some idea of how long you have left. Holly On Sep 26, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Most unabridged Audible books consist of 2 parts, some have 3 or 4 and some > long ones have up to 6 or even 7. In any case, you would know how many parts > because you have to download them and if you are on the Now Playing screen > you can see which part of the book is playing, it would be the next right > swipe after the Share button and it’s the first of 3 pieces of information: > Title including the part number, Author and narrator. If you swipe left from > the bottom it will go from Play to Jump Back, then narrator, author and title > with part number. So, once you know which part of the book is playing you can > check at the top, at the very top left you have the book title once again > with a Back button, but this doesn’t announce the part. One swipe right puts > you on Info, another swipe right gives you the elapsed time of the current > chatper, next is the Chatper number and after that is the time remaining in > that chapter. Now, you can go back to Info and on the screen that comes up > select the very bottom right tab which is Chapters. Now you see again the > book title including the part number at the very top left, then comes the > Done button which gets you out of the Info screen and following is a list of > all the chapters in the current part. Each Chapter starts with the length, > then Voiceover reads, for example, Chapter 1. You know from the first screen > which chapter is playing so now if you once again go to the very bottom where > you have the Bookmarks, Details and Chapters tabs, swipe left once from > Bookmarks and Voiceover will read out the duration and Chatper number of the > last chapter in the part. Now if you hear, for example, 32:38 Chapter 12 and > you are listening to Chapter 8 you know that you have 4 chapters remaining. > > One other way would be for you to know approximately how long each part of > the book is. I usually check how long a book is when I buy it since the total > duration is shown, so if I have a book that is 15 hours and 44 minutes long > and consists of 2 parts I know that each part is a bit under 8 hours. If you > check the Playback Position slider which is one flick to the right of the > chapter’s remaining time and just before you get to the Hands Free, Sleep > Mode, Narration Speed and Share buttons, the time displayed here is the > elapsed part of the entire part you are listening to, not just that of the > chapter. So if it says 5:30:32 I know I am 5 hours 30 minutes and 32 seconds > into that part and knowing roughly how long the part most likely is this > gives me an indication. > > You actually bring up a good point and I think I will include this into my > next email to Audible. I am planning to write them shortly to tell them about > the new Action rotor in iOS 6 and asking if they could not implement this > into the app in order to allow us Voiceover users an easy way to delete the > parts of a book. It would be great if we could just swipe up rod won on a > part and have a delete option just like in mail. I will also suggest that it > would be a nice feature to have a percentage indicator which indicates how > much of the entire book one has listened to. And in case you and others want > to write to them as well, I also would include the fact that while Voiceover > says “Download in progress” if you are downloading a part of a book, there is > no spoken information as to how much of the download has been completed. This > information is there for sighted users. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Audible question -- Is there a way to find out how far through the book one is?
Hi Ed, Most unabridged Audible books consist of 2 parts, some have 3 or 4 and some long ones have up to 6 or even 7. In any case, you would know how many parts because you have to download them and if you are on the Now Playing screen you can see which part of the book is playing, it would be the next right swipe after the Share button and it's the first of 3 pieces of information: Title including the part number, Author and narrator. If you swipe left from the bottom it will go from Play to Jump Back, then narrator, author and title with part number. So, once you know which part of the book is playing you can check at the top, at the very top left you have the book title once again with a Back button, but this doesn't announce the part. One swipe right puts you on Info, another swipe right gives you the elapsed time of the current chatper, next is the Chatper number and after that is the time remaining in that chapter. Now, you can go back to Info and on the screen that comes up select the very bottom right tab which is Chapters. Now you see again the book title including the part number at the very top left, then comes the Done button which gets you out of the Info screen and following is a list of all the chapters in the current part. Each Chapter starts with the length, then Voiceover reads, for example, Chapter 1. You know from the first screen which chapter is playing so now if you once again go to the very bottom where you have the Bookmarks, Details and Chapters tabs, swipe left once from Bookmarks and Voiceover will read out the duration and Chatper number of the last chapter in the part. Now if you hear, for example, 32:38 Chapter 12 and you are listening to Chapter 8 you know that you have 4 chapters remaining. One other way would be for you to know approximately how long each part of the book is. I usually check how long a book is when I buy it since the total duration is shown, so if I have a book that is 15 hours and 44 minutes long and consists of 2 parts I know that each part is a bit under 8 hours. If you check the Playback Position slider which is one flick to the right of the chapter's remaining time and just before you get to the Hands Free, Sleep Mode, Narration Speed and Share buttons, the time displayed here is the elapsed part of the entire part you are listening to, not just that of the chapter. So if it says 5:30:32 I know I am 5 hours 30 minutes and 32 seconds into that part and knowing roughly how long the part most likely is this gives me an indication. You actually bring up a good point and I think I will include this into my next email to Audible. I am planning to write them shortly to tell them about the new Action rotor in iOS 6 and asking if they could not implement this into the app in order to allow us Voiceover users an easy way to delete the parts of a book. It would be great if we could just swipe up rod won on a part and have a delete option just like in mail. I will also suggest that it would be a nice feature to have a percentage indicator which indicates how much of the entire book one has listened to. And in case you and others want to write to them as well, I also would include the fact that while Voiceover says "Download in progress" if you are downloading a part of a book, there is no spoken information as to how much of the download has been completed. This information is there for sighted users. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Audible question -- Is there a way to find out how far through the book one is?
Have you looked at the slider control after the amount of time remaining in the chapter? This might give an over all picture of how far you are into a book. You can also look on the chapters tab page of the Info screen, by double tapping the Info button in the upper right corner of the book that you are currently listening to. Once there, double tap the Chapters button/tab at the bottom, third from the left. It will not say how much time is left in the book, but it will list all of the chapters and their lengths, and you can figure from there. I don't know of a time display that has the amount of time left in the whole book or part. That would be nice to have. Wayne On 9/26/12, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. wrote: > Hi, > > I can't seem to find this. I can find how far into each chapter I am, but > not a sense of how far into the book I am, that is, am I getting close to > the end. > > Is there a way to do this? > > Thanks in advance. Keith > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My websites: www.wayneism.com www.whitecaneday.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
