AUDIOBOOKS.
I recently, to the great annoyance of my husband, started re-reading the Harry Potter series
about a month ago, and am currently in the beginning of the 7th book, the Deathly Hallows.
As you can imagine, with most of the books being about 500-700 pages, that I have been doing a great deal of this reading, and thus I discovered the inconvenience of lugging a 5 pound book around.
1. I know my purse is big, but it still has no effect on the weight of the book.
2. Cleaning takes 5 times longer when you only have one hand to do it, and it tends to cramp.
3. When running on a treadmill at the gym, the words are not only completely blurred, but won't stay open, as with the rest of the machines.
4. Driving is mostly illegal to do while reading.
5. I can't imagine voices as cool as the "bloke" that reads the audio books.
I can clean for hours at a time, run to the adventures of Mister Potter, and only have a small iPod to carry with me, and car rides are looked forward to, seriously.
I'd like to bear you my testimony on Audiobooks. I know that they are true.
Amen.
4 comments:
Hmm... I haven't as of yet experienced the true joy of audio books. I just really like to read I guess. So nerdy. I do see the benefit of listening to books though and if I ever go blind that is exactly what I'll do.
Amen.
And you only posted once in July and just made it by the skin of your teeth. For shame Laura, for shame.
I agree with Mari's comment in saying that I LOVE to read. However, audio books are really handy dandy for road trips.
Amen and AMEN to audio books. I love to read, but can't do it on my 40 minute (boring) ride to and from work. An audio book is just the thing. I find I look forward to going home from work even more than usual, and the ride TO work is not as depressing (although it's faster because I'm always late).
I love to read "real" books too, but sometimes only the audio ones will do. When I heard the Da Vinci Code on CD, however, the voice had a strange quality to it. Oh well, it was still good.
Nice to have you back - I missed your blog!
but they are so gd expensive
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