{"id":1915,"date":"2005-06-30T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2005\/06\/30\/a-reason-not-to-write-long-books\/"},"modified":"2011-11-25T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T22:10:18","slug":"a-reason-not-to-write-long-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2005\/06\/30\/a-reason-not-to-write-long-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason Not To Write Long Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> has Audiobooks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/George-Martins-Thrones-4-Book-ebook\/dp\/B004JN1D2I\/\">The Song of Ice and Fire Series<\/a>. How long does it take to read George to read them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Game of Thrones &#8211; 33h 45m<\/li>\n<li>A Clash of Kings &#8211; 37h 13m<\/li>\n<li>A Storm of Swords &#8211; unavailable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on my calculations, it should take about 2 min per page. So it would be about 43 hours to read 1216 pages. Ummmmmmmmmmm&#8230;. 33 + 37 + 43 = 113 hours to read the 3 books which are out now.<\/p>\n<p>Only 7 days to listen all (assuming 8 hours of sleep and the 3rd one exists).<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Now I understand why George did not read the 3rd one. He had already recorded 70 hours of reading. Yeah&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So iTunes has Audiobooks of The Song of Ice and Fire Series. How long does it take to read George to read them? A Game of Thrones &#8211; 33h 45m A Clash of Kings &#8211; 37h 13m A Storm of Swords &#8211; unavailable Based on my calculations, it should take about 2 min per page. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,977,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-from-livejournal","category-music-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-uT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}