Audiobook Listeners?

[Gman]

About 3 and a half years ago GhostH was kind enough to give me some pointers about ePubs and audio books, and that's when I bought my first eReader, back in early 2010.  Now I just use my tablet for epubs, and my ipod for audiobooks.  I'm glad this thread popped up, now I have a couple of new sources to find some audio books that are hard to locate with my usual methods.  I've got over 3000 epub/pdf books, but well under 100 audio books like some here, and I'll be using these sites mentioned here to pump that up a lot in the next week, as I've got a fair bit of sitting twiddling my thumbs coming up.

[hyzer]

Audible user here, normally get Sci-Fi type stuff, passes the time driving to and from work.  CINCHouse and me both like Sci-Fi so we listen to the same books, her on her iPhone and me on old iPod.  I love finding a good series with lots of books in it.   Recently I was able to sneak in a few aviation books. 

[ink]

this.  You have to understand that in many cases the narrator is acting the book out.  The narrator is, for me at least, VERY important....

I would think this ruins it, for me it would, I would much rather let my mind take from the words and fill in all the blanks, that it does when I read.....

[Fulcrum]

I would think this ruins it, for me it would, I would much rather let my mind take from the words and fill in all the blanks, that it does when I read.....

Nah...if anything I find it enhances it....at least for me.

[ink]

Nah...if anything I find it enhances it....at least for me.

ya couldn't do it

but thats one of the things that are great about the world...how frigging boring would it be if everyone was the same.

[Brooke]

Some narrators are amazing and do add to the book (Nigel Planer reading Disc World books; Douglas Adams reading Hitchhiker's Guide; etc.).

[The Fugitive]

I would think this ruins it, for me it would, I would much rather let my mind take from the words and fill in all the blanks, that it does when I read.....

Thats what I thought to, but once I tried it I was very surprised. I figured driving, I'm paying attention to the road and whats going on around me. Trying not to get lost in NY city and such. The GPS telling me where to go more than my wife does and so on. But loading up a book even with all that going on I have the same feelings and experience as I do when reading them. A good number of my audio books are copies of hard backs of my favorite stories so I it is easy to compare. 

[ink]

You guys are just lazy and don't want to turn a page.





























 

im kidding...the last few posts almost make me want to try it.

[Gman]

It's sort of difficult to turn pages while driving or running, and that's generally the only time I listen to audio books, I'd much prefer to read epubs or old school hardcover and paperbacks, as I can read several times faster than most audio book readers speaking pace.

[kilo2]

They are really good for long car trips/flights as gman said.

I get sick if I read on car trips so it is really my only choice.

[ink]

It's sort of difficult to turn pages while driving or running, and that's generally the only time I listen to audio books, I'd much prefer to read epubs or old school hardcover and paperbacks, as I can read several times faster than most audio book readers speaking pace.

what......... you cant read and drive...cmon man toughen up..........

I can drive...read...play poker...text.... and do the wife......... all while driving.....





























ok that was totally not true
 

[doright]

Some narrators are amazing and do add to the book (Nigel Planer reading Disc World books; Douglas Adams reading Hitchhiker's Guide; etc.).

Audible is a good deal, but your local library is a better one. I usually read library audiobooks CDs into mp3, so I didn't have to deal with the CD changing at work and could just play them on my iPod.

I prefer Stephen Briggs with Nigel Planer a close second. Douglas Adams and Niel Gaiman are some of the few authors that are capable of reading there own works well, most others should go do brain surgery on themselves before considering narrating their work.

I use to listen to audiobooks at work. So I went through a LOT of audiobooks, and listened to many multiple times. Depending on the narrator and writing some books had you wanting to work overtime. Other narrators could caused dangerous narcolepsy like symptoms (take some amphetamine David Case). Best narrator to date has to be Bronson Pinchot (Barry in Risky Business, and Serge in Beverly Hills Cop) who did a masterful job of reading "Matterhorn" on top of the excellent writing of a Vietnam war story.

edit: Forgot to mention that most libraries now let you check out audiobook downloads over the internet. A bit more convenient then dealing with a mass of CDs.

[Brooke]

I prefer Stephen Briggs with Nigel Planer a close second. Douglas Adams and Niel Gaiman are some of the few authors that are capable of reading there own works well, most others should go do brain surgery on themselves before considering narrating their work.

 

Also, Bill Bryson (In a Sunburned Country, is one), Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential), and Michael Veitch ("Fly" and "FLAK", two excellent books about WWII aviation) are great narrators of their own stuff.

[Arlo]

what......... you cant read and drive...cmon man toughen up..........

I can drive...read...play poker...text.... and do the wife......... all while driving.....

ok that was totally not true
 

Some people have trouble doing that first thing while driving. See it all the time.