Completed the audiobook for How To Organise Your Computer Files in record time. The text boxes and footnotes presented a problem for audio, so I changed the timbre of the voice for those, making it somewhat dry and dusty like the voice of HAL in the '2001: A Space Odyssey' film. For footnotes, I added a bell sound at the appropriate time, and read the notes at the chapter end, as in the book.
I had to change the cover, as the lower part needs to be blank for overlays.
The book is less than 4 years old, but some parts are already ripe for a new edition. Back then, few USB drives could outperform a hard drive's writing speed, but now this is common. Perhaps the parts on optical media was anachronistic even in 2022, but the comments are still valid; they are, in the long term, probably more archival than solid state drives. I'll wait a week or two before doing more on this. It would be better to release these audiobooks at intervals instead of all in one lump. Much of the material will be valid and useful no matter what the year.
The fast work on this has given me confidence that I can work at a similar rate for the Blake poems, so I've decided to record The Burning Circus too, notably leaving only Deep Dark Light unread. The strange specialist books, like the Nantwich Museum Poems (which isn't my work anyway, and was only made as a limited edition accompaniment to my exhibition), the Salome book, the Marius Fate book, and the Taskforce manual aren't high priorities to revisit.
Deep Dark Light would be quite a lot of work, it has a lot of poems, and the long story of almost novella length, and it's yet to sell a copy, so for the moment I'll hold off on that, even though I think it's a good work of literature.
