I have just received a copy of the Playaway edition of my book ‘Dalai Lama: Man Monk Mystic’ brought out by Bolinda of Australia. Playaway is described as the world’s first preloaded digital audio player.
It is not so much the book as the technology that I am quite excited about. The Amazon listing of the book prices my Playaway version at $84.99, which is obviously not the kind of money that a lot of people would be willing to spend on a book even if it is a cool new technology. I am sure with time the price of Playaway is bound to come down.
I played some parts of the book. The audio quality is flawless and controls are very easy to handle. The narrator of my book is a highly regarded Australian actor and narrator called Paul English who has done a superb job of reading what I wrote. It is a tribute to Paul’s craft that the book sounds better to me even though I have written it.