I love talking books! During a long two and a half years of travelling to Melbourne nearly every weekend I found being read to an enjoyable way to pass the travel time. It also took my mind off the stresses of those times. I began listening to them when I was in the kitchen too. (Sometimes it can take a while to finish the story!)
So this is amazing, although downloading them to an MP3 player is a whole new kettle of fish for me! I have to say the human voice makes all the difference - the computer voice sounds like something from an episode of "Lost in Space".
For libraries, these audiobooks would be fantastic. Not only could they be whipped away on the due date, but there'd be no time consuming processing needed. And no need to chase up the disc that's been left in the player or clean splodged and scratched discs with toxic concotions.
Some people would be right into it, others would need some educating - I still find some of the older people beside themselves because they think that if they stop the cd before it's finished they have start right back at track one again. "With a tape," one told me, "you knew where you were. You pushed stop and it stayed stopped."
We all have to move with the times. Maybe I'll grow to love those computer voices!
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