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After quite a bit of thought, I’ve placed the high quality audio version of John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars<\/a><\/em> up on Youtube. You can read the first few chapters here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HQ version of the audio book is here<\/a>. If you are unfortunate enough to have HughesNet, ViaSat, or any other data capped Internet service provider I suggest you listen to the Standard Quality audiobook version<\/a> as it will be much more data cap friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After quite a bit of thought, I’ve placed the high quality audio version of John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars up on Youtube. You can read the first few chapters here. The HQ version of the audio book is here. If you are unfortunate enough to have HughesNet, ViaSat, or any other data capped Internet service provider I suggest you listen to the Standard Quality audiobook version as it will be … John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars – Audiobook<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2429,2430],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audiobooks","tag-youtube","bnm-entry"],"yoast_head":"\nJohn Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars - Audiobook – Logikal Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After quite a bit of thought, I've placed the high quality audio version of John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars up . . .\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/john-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Smith - 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