Comments on: Audio Books

By: Pride and Prejudice - Audio Book Review « Devourer of Books’ Weblog

Pride and Prejudice - Audio Book Review « Devourer of Books’ Weblog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:39 +0000

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By: Literate Housewife

Literate Housewife — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:57:46 +0000

Despite the way it ended for me, I really enjoyed listening to Eat, Pray, Love on CD. When I first started my blog I was anti-audio and wouldn’t have counted it in my total. I think that was really just stupid of me now. Before I learned to love reading on my own, I loved being read to. As an adult, how many opportunities do you have to be read to anymore? I will have to check out LibriVox and these others myself. Great post!!!

By: PLAYAWAY

PLAYAWAY — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:32:40 +0000

Hi -

You should also check out Playaways. Playaway is a new, preloaded audiobook format and they are available at Chicago Public Library (or also available to purchase online). They are great because they come preloaded with a title, and only weigh 2 ounces – so great for your walks! And no downloading required!

Enjoy and happy listening!
Dana – from the Playaway team

By: hugh

hugh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:32:51 +0000

hiya, you might also want to check our http://earideas.com for good audio selected daily (brought to you by a couple of librivox’s original members).

By: fyreflybooks

fyreflybooks — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:46:08 +0000

I can’t imagine life without audiobooks. My dad drives quite a bit for work, so he had books on tape in the car for as far back as I can remember. I didn’t really start listening myself until a post-college road trip that got me through the entirety of the Lord of the Rings.

Now I’m almost never without my iPod with a book on it, and it’s a huge sanity saver, especially when I’ve got a ton of fairly mindless labwork to do. I actually listened to Pride and Prejudice a few weeks ago, and loved it – I absolutely agree that the prose style gets into the brain better through the ears than through the eyes.

By: Marg

Marg — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:36:22 +0000

I love listening to audiobooks, and used to listen to a lot of them when I was driving to and from work, but now that I catch the train I read instead. Downloading the classics is a great idea! I’m off to see what I can download to listen to while I do my cleaning!