RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

You can search the Oracle Documentation online at http://www.oracletuning.com

                                                                                       
        
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Also, for Oracle 7 at least, the documentation is about 10,000 pages long, that would take a lot of tapes.

Regards,

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dana
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes
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> --- Apps Sol <apps_sol_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any place where we can get Oracle books on Tape (Audio
> > tapes or CD's)
> > RK
>
>
> I doubt it. From what I understand, audio books are primarily made from
> best-selling fiction. What non-fiction audio books exist are probably
> limited to stuff with the broadest general appeal (best-sellers).
>
> I've personally never heard of technical books on tape/audio CD.
> However, you might be able to make your own, rather tediously, if you
> receive a PDF version along with a "dead tree" technical book.
>
> 1. Copy-paste the text from the PDF to your word processor of choice.
> 2. Use text-to-speech software to creave WAV files
> 3. Burn to CD.
>
> Or, you may want to purchase some Oracle Computer-Based-Training CDROMs
> and burn the audio tracks to an audio CD(if they're in a standard audio
> format or a format you could convert to WAVs) - or convert and download
> to an MP3 player. That's probably your best choice, though an expensive
> one.
>
> - Dana
>
>
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