Too Busy to Read? Try Text2Go!
I am an information junky. My laptop is exhausted from all the web searches I do on a daily basis - looking for information I must have, simply want to know, or am looking up for someone else. Anytime I need an answer to something, I "Google it" and always find the answer. The internet is incredible, and I can't imagine how I ever grew up during the 70's and 80's without this resource - and with only the local library (and my father's incredible brain-bank of knowledge) to rely on.
Given the amount of information I find and want/need to read throughout a given week, I can't aways find the time to, well, actually read it all! Not enough hours in a day or a week to keep up. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about! Then I was fortunate enough to have a lovely email exchange with Mark Gladding, Director of a company in Australia called Tumbywood Software. They have an awesome and affordable product called Text2Go!
Here's how they describe Text2Go on their website: "Transfer information from the web to your iPod / MP3 Player, so you can listen to it on the go and utilize time that would otherwise be wasted. Make productive use of those times when you're commuting, out for a run or in the gym. Designed to help students, doctors, lawyers, academics and knowledge workers absorb large amounts of information." It's very easy to use - I highly recommend that you check it out.
Given the amount of information I find and want/need to read throughout a given week, I can't aways find the time to, well, actually read it all! Not enough hours in a day or a week to keep up. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about! Then I was fortunate enough to have a lovely email exchange with Mark Gladding, Director of a company in Australia called Tumbywood Software. They have an awesome and affordable product called Text2Go!
Here's how they describe Text2Go on their website: "Transfer information from the web to your iPod / MP3 Player, so you can listen to it on the go and utilize time that would otherwise be wasted. Make productive use of those times when you're commuting, out for a run or in the gym. Designed to help students, doctors, lawyers, academics and knowledge workers absorb large amounts of information." It's very easy to use - I highly recommend that you check it out.




3 Comments:
This seems like an amazing technology. Apart of my graduate studies in Instructional Technology I am enrolled in an Authoring for Mobile Devices course.
We have had discussions, presentations, assignments and homework based on the complexity of developing sound instructional content for various mobile devices.
I think my colleagues will be interested in this type of tool because they are information junkies as well. I hope we have some free time to explore this technology as well, cool post!
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Aaron Kennelly, at 4/30/2008 3:28 PM
Jenna,
Great blog and great post here! This kind of software is a godsend, not only to stay up to date on your reading but also to stay in shape!
I used to be like every working graduate student who complains of no time to read texbooks and journal articles.
For the last six months or so, I've made a habit of pasting the upcoming week's courseware text (all of it is posted on the college's online library as text or pdf text) into speech-generating software similar to this (mine's TextAloud). I transfer these mp3 files to a little generic mp3 player.
Every day I carve out time for a 70-minute brisk-pace walk - to both stay in shape and finish all my "reading"!
There's no better way, especially on nice days like today in nearby West Chester PA, to study!!)
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Dave Fink, at 5/29/2008 11:27 AM
I've been looking for something like this! I found your blog through Google Reader's recommended feeds, and I was thrilled to see this post. It's hard to find time to sit down and read, many times I wished there was an audiobook version of my course work. Now there can be!
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lhash, at 7/01/2008 1:56 PM
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