This is the Book Right Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool

and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

Recording today is Friday, January 21st, 2022. I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from

The Goodship Book Riot.com, great website. Rebecca, today we're going to try for we'll see how long we can

keep the steam under this particular initiative of reading front list and

talking about front list we're going to do that in a little bit too but of front list, a lot of the books we will be reading and talking about,

oh for however long we can keep this up, we talked about on our winter draft, which we're doing another pay-for special bonus episode. It's available at bookwright.com slash winter draft.

You can get it as a special RSS feed where you can drop the the file into your podcast catcher of choice. RSS you can't play an arbitrary audio file which on a phone or tablet frankly is

harder than it should be I'll say that apple to you guys out there I don't know why

you can't press play and have have something work easily it seems like something that in

iTunes used to be able to

I'm now I'm a thousand years old where I'm talking about old technology but used to

be able to do this. It wasn't as hard. You could put it on an IP, you could have an

MP3 on the iPod and name it and it would play.

How do you do that now on an iPhone?

I have no idea.

I mean, in fairness to Apple.

They don't have much incentive

to make it easy for you to bring in your own MP3s

when what they really want is for you to sell your bonus content directly through them.

Those $2 trillion don't make themselves is what you're saying.

I'm not saying I feel bad for Apple.

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