Do you bother with audiobooks?

[bi0boy]

Oh, I used to listen to them in the bath when I was aged 11 and younger. I must have heard Treasure Island and Enid Blyton's Five Go Down to the Sea about 100 times as they were the only two that we had.

 

[Fez909]

Is this ok to bump mods/pogo?

I just signed up to a month's free trial on my ipad but it's £7.99 for one book a MONTH which to me seems a little steep. And they wonder why file sharing is so popular. Anyway, started with Brave New World which for some reason I've never read. My problem with audiobooks though is they send me to sleep and then I have no idea where I was up to when I wake up. Will give it a whirl on my commute but probably fuck off that £7.99 a month thing. Any tips, or anything?

I like listening to them when I'm washing up/cleaning rather than going to sleep. I have the same problem as you where I forget where I was. It came up on a thread recently and I said I was gonna write an app to detect when you fall asleep and pause it automatically, but like most of my ideas (which was actually someone else's) I haven't done anything with it.

Also, not sure if you drive or have long commutes, but it's good on buses and trains, and less good in cars. You can make it better in cars by using headphones I think.

 

[Citizen66]

Also, not sure if you drive or have long commutes, but it's good on buses and trains, and less good in cars. You can make it better in cars by using headphones I think.

They're perfect for me. I must spend, oooh, 20 hours a week commuting? But I don't mind reading too. The only time I want to read but can't be arsed is when it's late and I'm tired; an audio book is perfect for that, but...

 

[Fez909]

They're perfect for me. I must spend, oooh, 20 hours a week commuting? But I don't mind reading too. The only time I want to read but can't be arsed is when it's late and I'm tired; an audio book is perfect for that, but...

It was the morning when I was tired that they were the best for me. Same thing though.

One thing I did do is avoid books that I really wanted to read. A bad narrator can ruin it, so I used to save it for stuff I wouldn't mind reading if I had the time, if you get what I mean?

 

[danny la rouge]

They're perfect for me. I must spend, oooh, 20 hours a week commuting? But I don't mind reading too. The only time I want to read but can't be arsed is when it's late and I'm tired; an audio book is perfect for that, but...

Some bookshops do an audiobook swapping service, where you trade in old ones.

There are also still libraries out there...

 

[Citizen66]

It was the morning when I was tired that they were the best for me. Same thing though.

One thing I did do is avoid books that I really wanted to read. A bad narrator can ruin it, so I used to save it for stuff I wouldn't mind reading if I had the time, if you get what I mean?

Yeah, Brave New World probably falls into that camp. And Stephen King et al.

Some bookshops do an audiobook swapping service, where you trade in old ones.

There are also still libraries out there...

And bit torrent.

 

[Fez909]

I 'read' Dante's Inferno narrated by John Cleese. The book wasn't all that because I didn't get the references, but Cleese made it entertaining. I'd recommend torrenting that if you can find it.