Project Gutenberg also has audio books - and they are free!!!

I agree that there is little that is new in human behavior. Good post.

 

Audio books have saved me from living in total disrepair. Before them, I would read and only with great effort tear myself away to do things. Now, I go about gardening and other household chores happy as a clam - with a book in my ears. I find it sedating to have the audio book on when I have to wait excessively long. Well done on the Wilde quote, as well.

 

thanks mary

and flimsy, nice to see you here. i knew about gutenberg but didnt know about the audio book part.

thanks

 

Wasn't it Oscar who said: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"?

 

it was him indeed but you know what derrick jensen has to say about civilisation...

 

I don't know whether to blame the newspapers that put pictures of brittney spears on the cover, or the people that read that nonesense.

 

If you listen your way through Gutenberg,Librivox also has free audiobooks. They are all read by volunteers so they have a grass-roots independedt quality to them.

 

Today really is similar to the Gilding days of that Age. The MSM most emphatically so.

 

I'll have to check these new fangled thingies out. I get no time to read anymore.

 

I must agree, audiobooks are my own addiction. I'm fortunate enough to work where I can listen to audiobooks all day long. I convert them to mp3 and can load 5 unabridged books on my player at a time. On my blog I have a link to my audiobook inventory which lists the hundreds of books I've collected over time.

I just listened to The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama . . . not only is it good, but read by the author, it's compelling. He's a fine orator.

 

I haven't made use of this type of thing...but it sure sounds like a good thing.

 

Outstanding quote. Should be printed up and sent to every major media organ in The States...let them chew on that for a while.

I used to record books on tape for blind and learning disabled students at my job (eventually I was replaced by Kurzweill's "Perfect Paul"). It is a long and laborious process to put a book in a recorded format so that it is a pleasure to "read" rather than work.

 

thanks for the comments everyone good to see some new people too.

 

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