Does anybody listen to audiobooks?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

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I love listening to a rip-rousing story thriller or mystery on an audio-book. I have a subscription to Amazon Audible, but there are ways to listen to quality AB's online or smartphone free of charge.

Librivox is a downloadable free app to listen to hundreds of quality book topics read by volunteers. Some of my favorites include old radio mystery theater, the war of the worlds, Burns & Allen, Bob Hope, Dragnet, Poetry collections, Jack Benny the list goes on and on.
g your library card. Libby by Over Drive app lets you download eBooks and audio books on your computer or smartphone. All you need is membership to a participating library and you can download quality eBooks and audio books from a vast array of topics from authors new and old.

You can listen to audiobooks on YouTube, or basically any video sharing site like Yahoo or Bing videos. I download videos and convert them to MP3 audio format on my computer which are synced to my iPhone and iPad tablet for mobile listening.

There you have it. Listening to audio books increase your vocabulary by introducing new words and phrases. You can listen audio books in public places, with company or alone with or without earbuds or headphones. I do my grocery shopping while listening to audio books.

Librivox has ad-free listening for $2.49 a year.
 

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I listen to audiobooks as well. They're great for when your eyes are too tired to read, but you still want mental engagement, such as right before falling asleep. I pipe audiobooks through my "smart speaker," or listen through headphones off a tablet.

I'm also an Audible member, and have also bought a fair number of books from Chirp, which tends to have more attractively-priced selections, some for as little as a dollar on special sale and few for more than five dollars... 🦊
 
Fyrefox said:
I listen to audiobooks as well. They're great for when your eyes are too tired to read, but you still want mental engagement, such as right before falling asleep. I pipe audiobooks through my "smart speaker," or listen through headphones off a tablet.

I'm also an Audible member, and have also bought a fair number of books from Chirp, which tends to have more attractively-priced selections, some for as little as a dollar on special sale and few for more than five dollars... 🦊
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Fyrefox said:
I listen to audiobooks as well. They're great for when your eyes are too tired to read, but you still want mental engagement, such as right before falling asleep. I pipe audiobooks through my "smart speaker," or listen through headphones off a tablet.

I'm also an Audible member, and have also bought a fair number of books from Chirp, which tends to have more attractively-priced selections, some for as little as a dollar on special sale and few for more than five dollars... 🦊
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Thanks for the Chirp tip
 
I have "Middlemarch" on my Audible list right now and listen to a chapter or three as I travel from Americus to home city (about 2.5 hrs). The version is have is read by English Actress Juliet Stevenson and it is fantastic! She makes the book come alive.... even the parts you would normally skim. She brings out the subtle, sometimes snarky, humor of Eliot and her social commentary. Highly recommend.
 
jujube said:
I like audiobooks when I'm on a long car trip. It takes me 7 hours to get to my mother's house so i get a recording that lasts about 6 hours and I'm set. Them another for the trip home.
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When I lived in Northern Virginia, my daily commute was always well over an hour each way for the seven years we were up there. I worked my way through all of the holdings in the Reston Library and had to start working on those from the Vienna Library. At some point, I was down to Jane Austin and Gothic Romance Novels by Victoria Holt and others. I listened to just about everything I could get my hands on. It didn't hurt me, and it amused my wife whose commute was in the other direction into Crystal City.

Audio books seemed to keep me awake better than music during the dark early morning drives that started before the sun came up.

I don't miss those commutes one bit. For two years I drove close to 100 miles one way from Reston VA all the way to the outskirts of Baltimore MD and worked a ten hour schedule to boot. Yes, I believe that audiobooks are great.
 
They are good when flying or on a road trip. I used to get them from the local library on my Kindle. At home I have more paper books than I will ever be able to read.
 

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