Text-only NPR
I wish there was a easy-to-find-downloads-of-audio NPR ...<p>But unfortunately, like almost all media outlets, finding an actual link that points to an actual mp3 file is very time consuming and difficult.<p>Here's an example ...<p>Let's say you want to download an episode of 1-A to listen to on an airplane.  The front page of the website[1] has "listen" links and also a "subscribe to the "podcast"" link.  But I don't want to "listen" and I don't want to subscribe to anything and I don't use itunes (or anything like itunes).<p>So you click the link to the actual episode of the show[2] but once again ... cute little "listen" link ... cute little "discuss" link ... but no way to download a file.<p>So now it's getting frustrating ... but as a last ditch effort, you turn off your brain and just type in "download 1-a episode" into google and come up with this link[3] which takes you to a different website (npr.org) which has a list of 1-a episodes (and our friend the "listen" button) but <i>also has a cute little "..." button</i> that expands into choices, one of which is "download".<p>[1] <a href="http://the1a.org/" rel="nofollow">http://the1a.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://the1a.org/shows/2017-09-25/salman-rushdie" rel="nofollow">http://the1a.org/shows/2017-09-25/salman-rushdie</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510316/1a" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510316/1a</a>