It’s no secret to those who know me that I have issues with work right now. I’m working on them, but it’s not a very speedy process so far. In the meantime, I’ve found something that makes the day go by MUCH faster.
Audiobooks.
I really don’t get the chance to read as much as I’d like to. I also have trouble lately (adult onset ADD perhaps?) doing just one thing. Just watching a movie, just reading a book, just talking on the phone – anything that requires me to sit and concentrate on it and it alone – hate it.
So I downloaded a couple audio books last night, and I’ve got them going in my ears as I work. I still get to absorb the books I’ve been wanting to read, and it has the added bonus of drowning out anything else in the immediate vicinity of my cubicle (other than the phone – sometimes I still have to pick that up).
Unfortunately, I can’t afford to drop a small fortune on audible tracks. Other than books on CD from the library that I may or may not be able to rip at home, does anyone have any ideas where to get free or cheap mp3 audio books?
Ooh, I don’t know,but if you find out let me know. I have a few books on tape, and I adore them.
However, I don’t have a tape player anymore, which makes them pretty useless.
I do (I think) have a copy of Lord of the Rings in mp3 format. A bit long, and I’m not sure where the CD’s are, but if you’d like me to dig ’em up… 🙂
Usenet: alt.binaries.audiobooks or one of those similar groups. You’ve gotta wait for them to be posted, but there are tonnes there. And, of course you need a newsreader, like Free Agent, and a ISP that provides access to newsgroups and doesn’t mind you downloading 500MB a day. But, yeah…
Hmm – i know the public library has some available. Might want to check into that 🙂
I would suggest using bit torrent. I know a bunch of people who use it for stuff like that. I’m not sure how big the selection is, though, and it might be on the geeky side.
i figured out how to use bittorrent and newsgroups in the past year or so… i just have no idea where to *find* the actual files.