Audible.com

[ddubois]

Anyone used this?

I spend at least an hour every day in my car commuting. I kind of feel like it's a waste of time. I usually listen to an advice call-in show in the mornings, which might be OK if literally 40% of the air time wasn't commercials. Then I listen to music in the evenings, which might be OK if the radio wasn't god-awful repetitive, and I had purchased a new CD within the last five years.

I got the idea that perhaps listening to books on CD might be a more productive use of my time. I always want to read more, and I buy far more books than I actually get around to reading (I'm always more compelled to do something else, usually on the computer or with the family). But in my car, I'm something of a captive audience. Do you all have any opinions on hearing a book versus reading it?

Before I bought any audio book CDs however, I saw amazon's links to audible.com on some products, and wonder if this isn't even better than my idea. My concern is selection I suppose: I have no interest in fiction. And I doubt they have much in the way of programming books or 2+2 books. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Once I get through a certain number of widely lauded self-improvement-style books, I could be out of material and back to where I am now.

Thoughts?