Free Books Plus

Blogging is a human activity, and so there are bound to be delays.

Even so I never expected a combination of tooth infection with so many visits to the dentist, land clearing, which I had planned and, shame of it, actually deleting one of my blogs by accident which caused me so many delays.

It’s not something you really think much about when you start blogging. So it’s live and learn.

Anyway, without going on about this too much, lets get on with the next part of the post to see how we can listen to free books on the radio and then schedule our listening to give us more control.

And for this part I’m going to leave the BBC and have a look at a relatively new service called Audio Book Radio.

This service, plays books and stories and also provides an opportunity to buy commercial recordings.

Obviously the emphasis in Free Books Plus will be on listening to the free radio broadcasts

The first thing we have to do is to find the station, which broadcasts from this address.

http://www.audiobookradio.net/index.php

Here you’ll find information and a programme guide.

Let’s have a look at how to play this radio station and then later on, perhaps to scheduling it to play when we want it to.

Audio Book Radio gives you a choice of many different players.

You probably know by now that the question of media players is really quite a controversial one.

Many of the well-known players have a number of problems and are controlled by commercial interests.

I’m not going to go into that here.

I’m going to stay with Real Player simply because it’s the player we’ve been using before

The first thing to do is to right click your mouse on to Real Player and then choose Save Link As.

I’m using the Firefox browser. Your browser may be slightly different.

To make things easier, I’m going to change the link name to something like audiobook radio, and then save the the link to the desktop.

If we do this, it means that any time we click on this link Real Player will open up and play the radio programme of Audiobook Radio.

If you look at the Programme Scedule you’ll see the times the stories are broadcast – which you will have to adjust to your local time of course.

For my purposes I’ve chosen the story The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins.

In the next post we’ll look at how to schedule Audio Book radio to start playing on our computer at the correct time.

There are many schedulers available but I’m going to illustrate the use of the free programme Solway’s Task Scheduler – details on the resources page

So, make sure you’ve got your scheduler ready

Until next time ….

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