Best Practices in Workplace Relationships

[knight_tracer]

Title: Best Practices in Workplace Relationships
Author: BlackEyedGirl
Reader: knight_tracer
Beta: leish
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairings: Eduardo Saverin/Mark Zuckerberg
Rating: Explicit
Length: 2:26:34
Summary:

Someone is sitting at the desk outside his office.
Mark comes to stand by the desk. “Do I know you?”
He is given a quietly appraising look. The man stands and offers Mark his hand. “Eduardo Saverin. You’re supposed to be interviewing me.”

Written for a prompt at the kinkmeme: They meet when Mark's already a billionaire and Eduardo is his new personal assistant.

Links: mp3 m4a

Comments

[daraq]

I'm looking forward to listening, thanks!

[knight_tracer]

I hope you enjoy it :D

[lunchee]

SO EXCITING!!!!

This was on my to-do list, but now I can listen to you read it! Fantastic! \o/

[knight_tracer]

\o/ I hope you enjoy it. I'd love to listen to your version if you do get to it :D

[lunchee]

My to-do list is ridiculous really, and this was a bit of a lower priority seeing as how I didn't have to ask permission for it. And also, I am happy listening to you read it, rather than recording it and editing it myself, mwahahaha >:D

[cybel]

Hey there!

I noticed that you tagged for posting a podbook, but the links are only for mp3 and m4a. Am I missing something or did I add the tag myself in error? Which is entirely possible!

[knight_tracer]

I have no memory of tagging it this way. If it was my error, I'm sorry.

[cybel]

No, no it was most likely me! My brain is a sieve! I probably misread the link text.

Did you know you can change an m4a into an m4b just by manually changing the tag? The two formats are very closely related, and that's all it takes to make the conversion. :-)

[knight_tracer]

I think I *did* know that. Is it worth doing?

[cybel]

That depends, I suppose. Many people prefer podbooks because they auto-bookmark and file in iTunes under Books instead of Music. Also, they usually have covers, which many people adore.

To tell you the truth, I don't know if anyone does, or why they would, prefer an m4a over an mp3 for podfic. Both are compressed formats, and though an m4a offers better sound quality than an mp3 (lossless compression vs lossy compression) when listening to music at high volume, the difference is not really noticeable in spoken word files, or music either, for that matter, when listened to on a portable device. Plus, an mp3 version must be made available anyway as many people do not have players compatible with m4a (or m4b) files.

It might be interesting to check in the archive to see the number of page hits an m4a gets vs the mp3 version of the same podfic. I sometimes, out of curiosity, do this for mp3s vs m4bs, but then, I'm all about the podbooks, obviously. :-)

[knight_tracer]

Yes, covers are an amazing thing! In the past if my podfic didn't have a cover it didn't occur to me to covert it to m4b, but I think I'll start doing that now - auto-bookmarking is really useful. I'm always interested in stats. Thanks for the info.

[cybel]

Podbook lovers everywhere will applaud you!

If you ever need a cover made, of course, feel free to ask. :-)