So to free audio books.
some people love them and some people loathe them.
I’m going to tell you that right now that I come into the first group.
I love audio books.
Why some people loathe them I’m not quite sure. Perhaps it’s because they don’t like the way they’re read and some people don’t like the abridged versions.
Another problem with commercial audio books is that they’re often very expensive.
However, from my point of view audio books do a great job in certain circumstances, for example on long journeys or when you have a lot of time on your hands, waiting in airports and so on.
For me the most obvious example was last year when I was 10 days in hospital.
Exactly what was wrong with me I’m not absolutely certain. My doctor had ordered some blood tests, I was coughing very badly and she decided to send me to hospital.
Now in common with most countries, here in Bulgaria hospitals have trouble with funding but I can put it on the record that I was quite impressed.
it wasn’t that the food was good, it wasn’t that the ward was bright and newly painted.
It was that the medical staff and the equipment they used were excellent.
The great danger of course was getting bored. My wife and son visited me every day but nevertheless I had hours and hours to spare.
But time passed rather happily as I had with me the complete recordings of the “Diaries of Samuel Pepys” and the “Diary of Adrian Mole”, one factual and one fictional diary which made up a diary phase and I was really able to listen to these works. And lying there on my hospital bed and, later on, when I was allowed to get up and walk around, sitting in my chair, with my mp3 player, it really made my day. So I can only say “Great” to audio books.
So, what about free audio books?
I’ve been astonished in my researches at the enormous variety of resources for free audio books. And, in coming posts I’ll be looking at some of those resources and I’ll be giving tutorials on how I deal with them.
This site is about legal free books.
When it gets to audio books there are copyright issues not only surrounding th text but also the actors, producers and so on.
There are several sources of audio books which are free.
One of the most obvious is the radio.
As this blog is on a computer I’m going to emphasize playing and listening to the radio over the internet.
Exactly what to listen to, and how to listen to it is something for next time.
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