I listened to Books on Tape for hours a day, for years, so wrangling cassette tapes was a Key Survival Skill for me. Especially when the tape suddenly started playing backwards, and I had to find, first the point where the tape had flipped, and the the point where it flipped back, and straighten the intervening section. Even better than a pencil was a seam ripper, which fitted nicely into the little sprockets, turned smoothly, and didn't snap off at a bad moment.
Sigh. Audiobooks are on CDs now. Analog devices have some real benefits: you can't stop a CD at a given point, remove it from one player, move it to another player, start it again and have it start where you had stopped.
In other news: I've only looked at the DVD extras for a couple of Who episodes so far (I only just started replacing my VHS tapes). My all-time favourite is the spoof interview with Sutekh on "Robots of Mars", with OMG Gabriel Woolfe actually doing the voice work OMGOMG squeeee.
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Date: 2012-01-14 03:13 pm (UTC)Sigh. Audiobooks are on CDs now. Analog devices have some real benefits: you can't stop a CD at a given point, remove it from one player, move it to another player, start it again and have it start where you had stopped.
In other news: I've only looked at the DVD extras for a couple of Who episodes so far (I only just started replacing my VHS tapes). My all-time favourite is the spoof interview with Sutekh on "Robots of Mars", with OMG Gabriel Woolfe actually doing the voice work OMGOMG squeeee.