Audio books

[stui magpie]

Do you like them?
Do you use them?


I don't think I've had anyone read to me since I was 5, then I figured out how to do it myself. I like listening to music but sitting and listening to someone talking gives me the fidgets.
I know some people like audio books, they can have a book read to them while driving or exercising or even working in some cases. Just doesn't work for me in any way shape or form.

Does anyone use them, like them and why?

[HAL]

There is no accounting for taste.

[stui magpie]

Totally correct Hal. some people like you.

[HAL]

There is no accounting for taste.

[watt price tully]

I don't have any but I want to. I love the idea.

My older brother uses them & he is an English & remedial English teacher who drives about 60 minutes one way to work each day.

[Tannin]

[HAL]

There is no accounting for taste.

[Tannin]

I like them, not that I have any.

On long trips, I like to have something to listen to while I drive.

I have little patience for music these days. Like a reformed drinker I binge on some music for a few hours once in a long, long while - a few months, typically, but it generally doesn't hold my attention and if it isn't something I'm actively listening to then it's just annoying noise. But that's at work or at home. I don't listen to music in the car. I don't know if the CD player even works anymore, it hasn't been used for a few years. In any case, even when it did work, I seldom used it.

So I listen to the radio. Sometimes that's good. I like AM, PM, The World Today, some of the ABD Local Radio presenters can be worth listening to. Some - notably Richard the Dud .. er I mean Stubbs - are terrible cross-the-street-to-avoid-boring. Radio National still has good stuff but much less of it than it used to - successive conservative governments have ripped the guts out of the ABC. And then there is sport. I'll listen to any sport except basketball. (I don't listen to soccer either, but that doesn't count 'coz it's not a sport.) Oh, and not horse racing, and unless I'm really desperate, not the Olympics. I love listening to the cricket, and the footy of course, if I'm up north I'll happily take in the League. Best of all is Ashes tests. I often plan a long trip so that I leave home as they are tossing the coin and arrive in Rockhampton or somewhere as they present the man of the match award on day five.

But there are times when there is nothing worth listening to, not even with half a brain while you drive. And there are places where there is no radio at all (Adelaide-Perth, for example - no reception for days on that trip). Sunday mornings are often the worst: the RN program has gone to tripe, and I flat-out refuse to listen to that smarmy ultra-dud Macca. Sunday mornings I hum a little tune to myself, to the tune of a great old Greg Champion song - and there's nothing on the radio, nothing, on the radio".

So that leaves audio books. Great idea. Why don't I have any?

[think positive]

Omg you listen to test matches

[Tannin]

Hell yeah. Never miss one. Well, apart from the ones I miss I never miss one.

I listen to the one-day rubbish too, but only if I haven't got anything else to do that day. Who can remember any particular one-day pajama thing ten minutes after the match? They are all the same. Whereas a good test match is something you remember for a lifetime.

[Mugwump]

[stui magpie]

Test matches are the only thing I listen to ABC radio for.

[watt price tully]

[HAL]

Still how long? No.

[think positive]

Test matches are really good sleeping pills.

I've only ever watched the end of a couple, and only when England are about to win the ashes!

I'd rather watch soccer, at least that's only boring for a couple of hours, not fricken days