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This is perhaps the most meta thing I’ve ever done. I uploaded The Machine Stops<\/a>, the powerful 1909 essay by E.M. Forster, to SoundGecko<\/a>, a Web service that converts any text into an MP3, Siri reading.<\/p>\n

NOTE: I first read this essay on my iPad and did not miss the irony. So, bonus points of you are listening to this ‘audio reading’ on your mobile device.<\/em><\/p>\n