Anyone listen to audible books?

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Was just thinking of listening to some of these lately. I easily listen to hour and half of the pod a day (usually its Ricky Gervais) This makes my workout/run a lot easier I find.

However just noticed that besides the audio books being really expensive $35 !! They are freaking long - Dan Brown's ANgels & Demons for instance is 18 hours long!! :confused:

Anyone listened to some and is it a good way to get through a book??

Cheers
Chris
 
you can get abridged versions of a lot of books, which brings them down to 3 hours total normally

i listen to quite a lot when i go to bed, find it easier than reading in bed, i normally listen to books i've read before as you'll tend to miss little bits if it's not something you know previously
 
I noticed that it stated it was unabridged.

What does this mean in the world of audio books??

3 hours seems more like it
 
I think the unabridged versions are the whole book read word for word, whereas the abridged versions are like readers digest versions, shortened.
I like to have audio books on at night set one to play half an hour or so and fall asleep, did this with the harry potter books, took about a year and a half to get through them all, tis a really nice way to hear the books and fall asleep.
 
I love audio books. I have listenede to quite a few that I have borrowed frtom libraries, friends, free downloads (great for catching up with the classics) etc. There are also stupid numbers available illegally :eek:

I have an hour long commute each morning and evening and I much prefer to listen to a good book that the tripe I usually find on the radio. I haven't even listened to a CD in my car for 6 months. Unabridged versions are better in my opinion. The abridged versions just makes you feel like you've been robbed and frequently feel rushed and unfulfilling. In my opinion, of course.

C.
 
I bought loads when we toured florida.

Good if you have a long commute.

The book I listened too was read by ally sheedy which was a +

Nice voice.
 
I used to work as a sound engineer and we did a lot of these for the BBC. If I got bored I could quite legitimately listen to them while they were being prepared for duplication. 'Twas an interesting way to get paid... But only if it was a 'Sharpe' or wonderfully trashy Andy McNab novel though. Bill Bryson's stuff was quite good too. I found them very good, and usually ended up buying actual books of the ones I listened too. A lot depended on the reader they used, to be honest. They can make or break an audio book.

We never did any of that abridged nonsense though. Can't see the point of them myself. We just did the the full phat versions. ;) 6-8 hours for a short book. 24-36 hours for a real beasty.
 
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Lunatic Dreyfus said:
A lot depended on the reader they used, to be honest. They can make or break an audio book.
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So true, I have the Stephen Fry versions of the Harry Potter books and heard the american releases (read by Dan someone?) a friend has, so different and Stephen Fry was far better.
 
For those that buy your audiobooks - whats the cheapest place for them?

Usually I find some of them are a little to expensive for my liking!

i.e. the new Harry Potter one is £55!
 
Just finished the Godfather audio book.

Absolutely superb.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks as it helps pass the time at work and I don't have time to read books. Listening to them is 90% as good.

Always unabridged though. Whats the point of listening to a version of the book where someone else has gone through and chopped 70% of it out?

Simon/~Flibster
 
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