Mmm audiobooks

[ysobel]

So I seem to have an addiction to audiobooks.

It's not the same experience as visual reading, but it is perfectly entertaining in its own right. Especially useful for listening when a) crocheting, b) taking a nice long evening walk with Yahtzee, or c) having my eyes closed but not sleeping. And it's certainly more physically accessible than physical books, which I have problems holding and using.

...and I may have just added 36 titles to my Audible wish list...

(dude, Taltos books are available on audible! Also earthsea! Also one of my favoritest Star Trek books, which makes up for being abridged -- excuse me, adapted -- by being read by George Takei and Leonard Nimoy.)

Now if only I had a million dollars to spend on audiobooks...

Comments

[zhelana]

So I just googled this audible thing you mention, and OMG I think i love you. rofl thanks for pointing me at that!

[jesse_the_k]

My library now provides downloadable MP3s on loan -- the files self-destruct after the borrowing period is over. But it helps with the million bucks.

The Overdrive company pretty much has this cornered in the Midwest -- details here:
http://omc.overdrive.com/

[ysobel]

Ooooo. Our library does Overdrive too!

/pause, while isa adds 49 items to her wishlist there too, and maxes out on suggestions of titles/

...ahem.

They don't have everything that's on my list, but...

/realizes YA books were not in the previous search, dives back in and ends up with ten more/

but I think I can find a few things, just maybe

:)

[ysobel]

and I knew my library did books on tape/cd, but those are kind of ... clunky. And physical. But I'd forgotten about Overdrive, so thank you! <3