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So this isn’t necessarily anything super groundbreaking, but I did something last night that I thought was kind of cool. And it’s a good illustration of why I think it’s valuable to actually own your media rather than just renting access to it. The Problem Yesterday, I was listening to an audiobook that was probably recorded in the early days of the format; not cassette-era, but before there was really a loudness standard for audiobooks. I was several chapters in and the whole time I was thinking, man, this volume is really low. My phone was maxed out and I was still having trouble hearing it. We’re getting into the warm days here in Phoenix, so the A/C is running in the afternoons and I’ve got fans going too, which is just more ambient noise, making it even harder to hear. And on my lunch break, I was cooking and connected my phone to a Bluetooth speaker so I could listen in the kitchen, and even then, I was losing words over the sound of the faucet and whatever else I had going on. I...