audio books

[Raev]

Does anybody else listen to audio books?

I know it's not quite as good as reading - but quite often I find myself having to drive a lot or having little time to sit. So, while I drive/run/take care of errands etc I've taken to turning on an ipod and listening to a book.

Listening to "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown at the moment. I didn't enjoy his other books but this one seems to be MUCH better than the others.

So, do you listen to books?

Recommend any?

[Simon Bar Sinister]

here's a site for you all:

http://www.librivox.org

[drcarstairs]

Good God Yes.

Like you I have a lot of drive time and frankly I tire of the same three songs and the same two opinions on the radio. If it were not for audio book I would go mad (I know, go?).

I have a partial list of audio books I have read at Goodreads. There are only 13 books listed there because I just started tracking my reading through Goodreads and I am unsure of which older books I read and which I listened too.

The links to my page are:

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2532066 (main page)

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2532066?shelf=audio (audio books)

As for websites, I can try and summon up some if you are interested (I don’t have all my research materials with me at this time, but I can get them); the afore mentioned LibriVox is good. I would also recommend Project Gutenberg’s audio selection:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project

As for specific books, I am partial to listening to history, biography, and scholarly/educational works. Things I don’t have the time to read usually – keeps the horizons broadened.

And on that note, anyone else have a Goodreads account? I would love to see what the other DGN members are reading. Might give me some ideas

Well, I must be off.

TTFN.