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Audible

I’ve been an Audible subscriber since February 2010, and since then about half of all the books I’ve reviewed in my podcast have been audiobooks from their service. I’m very happy with it, and would recommend the company to anyone. In fact, I recommend their audiobooks all the time.

With that in mind, I’ve signed up as a partner with Audible.com. This means I’m offering my listeners a 30 day free trial, with one free audiobook of your choice from a selection of over 100,000 titles. At the end of the trial there is no obligation to begin paying the monthly subscription, but I’m pretty confident that you’ll want to do so, just like I did.

If you use this link to start your free trial you’ll be supporting the SFBRP, and I’ll be using the proceeds to for pay bandwidth costs, some new studio equipment, newly released book titles, and also help fund an exciting new project which I hope to announce at the end of the summer.

I hope this works out!

If you’re not sure which book to try out for free, check out the episode lists to find your favourite author or the highest rated novels.

SFBRP Live Show Tonight!

SFBRP Live Show tonight! Begins in about 3.5 hours. That makes it:
11pm my time (Central European Summer time)
10pm British Summer Time
5pm Eastern Daylight Time
2pm Pacific Daylight Time

The book I’ll be reviewing is Crystal Rain by Tobias S Buckell. Just go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lukeburrage, hang out and enjoy the ride. For some reason I feel a rant coming on… but I won’t give it away early.

SFBRP Live recording starts in 30 minutes.

Everything is set up and ready to go! We start in 30 minutes! Just go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lukeburrage and join in the fun. The session will begin at:
11pm my time (Central European Summer time)
10pm British Summer Time
5pm Eastern Daylight Time
2pm Pacific Daylight Time

I’ll be reviewing and discussing Dan Simmons’ novel Hyperion, one of the most requested novels from the listeners of the SFBRP.

The idea is that I’ll chat for a few minutes and welcome any listeners, then do a normal SFBRP recording, then take questions about the review and the book from those following in the attached chatroom, to be included in the podcast itself. Following that I’ll be open for whatever those in the chatroom suggest, answer any questions, whatever.

If you miss the recording session, the video will be recorded in full, and you can play it at any time by visiting the same page. The audio will be edited and released as a normal episode in the podcast feed.

SFBRP Live Recording (with video) – Dan Simmons – Hyperion

As I mentioned on the last episode of the SFBRP, I’m planning to do live recording sessions of the next few episodes.

Everything is set up and ready to go! Tomorrow night (Thursday 16th April), just go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lukeburrage and join in the fun. The session will begin at:
11pm my time (Central European Summer time)
10pm British Summer Time
5pm Eastern Daylight Time
2pm Pacific Daylight Time

I’ll be reviewing and discussing Dan Simmons’ novel Hyperion, one of the most requested novels from the listeners of the SFBRP.

The idea is that I’ll chat for a few minutes and welcome any listeners, then do a normal SFBRP recording, then take questions about the review and the book from those following in the attached chatroom, to be included in the podcast itself. Following that I’ll be open for whatever those in the chatroom suggest, answer any questions, whatever.

If you miss the recording session, the video will be recorded in full, and you can play it at any time by visiting the same page. The audio will be edited and released as a normal episode in the podcast feed.

The start of something new.

The first post on the new blog and rss feed for a new podcast I’ve been planning and recording for about a year. I thought it would be best to actually get started on the project that I included in my new years resolutions…