Peter,

I have gotten back to listening to a lot of audio books in the past 3
years.  The trend of going to MP3 CDs has its pluses and minuses.  You can
squeeze 20+ hours of audio onto one MP3 CD but you either need to be at
your computer or have a portable MP3 CD player.  Or need some way to copy
the MP3 files to a regular portable MP3 player.  I would like to get a
20GB Nomad 3 Jukebox but a pricetag of $400 is still too high for me.

I am still buying the cassette audiobooks because I give them to a local
library when I finished with them.  About every 3 to 6 months I take in a
whole garbbage bag full.  I try to get the unabriged books.

I do find it interesing that many of us VI folks have been getting books
on cassette or LP records for over 25 years.  Only in the late '80s early
'90s, sighted people started to see the value in listening to books
instead of reading.  In the late '90s and now, it is a very common to find
audiobooks in bookstores.

Later,
Steven

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Peter Altschul wrote:
> I know nothing about this, but it sounds interesting.


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