So I was listening to Michael Crichton’s “Prey”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060536977/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=1789&link%5Fcode=xm2 tonight, on disc 11, the last disc. It’s a book on CD in case you didn’t figure that out :-) I have it out from the library, and it’s really good. All 10 of the first discs were perfect in audio quality, no noises or other imperfections. However, this last disc, nearly halfway through, in the middle of one of the most suspensful parts…locks up. Starts skipping and freezing over and over, from at least track 6 to track 8, where I finally quit. I was home, so I came in, and tried some moist lens-cleaning cloths I picked up from a local warehouse club cheap a while back…then I tried ripping it into iTunes. It works! So I’ll try listening to it again, if that doesn’t work I’ll burn myself a temp. copy to get me through it. I may return it to the library with a note saying there might be an issue with disc 11! Fortunately I have a backup though….the hardcover version of the book from the library as well! So if nothing else, I could’ve read the end. But I’m tired and I think I’ll go listen to it right before I fall asleep :-)
This is the end :-)