triviageek

I really like audiobooks and I suspect that their popularity will only increase over the next few years. My prediction is that aging baby boomers will increasingly find large print books and audiobooks both more comfortable ways of reading than getting eyestrain from the print of regular books.

One of my earlier posts pointed out a really great source for audiobooks at a VERY reasonable price.

Another source is Gutenberg which has a few human read audiobooks for free download. They have many more audiobooks that are read by a computer-voice which, so far, hasn't been as good as those by the human readers.

Recently I've stumbled across a couple of other sources for audiobooks (or audio entertainment).

Librivox is recording (via volunteers) free audiobooks of public domain books. Ie. they've got humans reading and recording texts from Gutenberg.

And someone has started a free download of radio dramas which includes broadcast adaptions of literature. He calls it "podcasting" but it's downloadable mp3's for free (or donations to keep his site afloat).

Then of course, there's your public library's collection of audiobooks. Where I live, I'm fortunate enough to have access to THREE different county library systems and their audiobook collections.