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Christmas is Coming! What are you buying? : Make a good house a GREAT home — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:24:08 +0000

[...] Do you know anybody travelling over this holiday season? Maybe get them a couple of audiobooks to help let the travel time pass quickly. [...]

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Gift Ideas for Christmas : Make a good house a GREAT home — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:10:11 +0000

[...] – Audiobooks Let You Read While Sitting In Traffic [...]

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:25:05 +0000

excellent links there, thank you!

By: Donn Edwards

Donn Edwards — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:17:32 +0000

I buy audiobooks from several sources:
http://www.audible.com – my favourite
audiobooks.borders.com and
http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com – both of these have some titles not available from audible
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com – great for classic literature, and much cheaper at $8 per MP3 book.

I convert the books to MP3 format if they aren’t already, and then transfer them to my Nokia phone. I prefer this to an iPod.

You can also rent audio books (tapes or CDs) from http://www.listenerslibrary.com, which is based in Dunkeld, Joburg. They send books by post, too.

There are some books that are best read than listened to. An example of this is “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks. It’s a fantastic story and it is truly well read by George Guidall. But it’s a real tear-jerker and in the print version you can skip over the sad bits. Not so with the audio book.

Now that they are available on Audible I must recommend the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series (all 8 of them) by Alexander McCall Smith. They are set in Gaborone, Botswana and are quite charming.