What do you do while listening to Audio Books?

Ooh! Focus on the Family made some really amazing Chronicles of Narnia radio dramas that I listen to all the time. They're almost word for word the book but they're fully dramatized, so they're not really audio books.

Focus on the Family? Where do you find those, Ally? At the Library? In bookstores?

We got our first copies on Casset tape from the local Family Christian Bookstore, but when they released them on CD I brought them again online. Lots of Christian bookstore realitors like Lifeway, Mardels, and Family Christian store seem to carry them, and I've found them in major bookstores. I guess it would depend on the library if you could get them from the library. But Focus on the Family has lots of great stuff adapted to radio drama, C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters", Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden", and Corrie Ten Boom's "The Hiding Place" to name a few. If you can check them out or ask your library to order them, they're really good.

I totally understand that, Nonersays. If I were to sit down and put an audiobook on to listen, I would probaly fall asleep or get really bored just sitting there. But when I am painting, beading, drawing, doing housework, driving... etc. audiobooks are very enjoyable for me. That's why I was asking what do others do if they like to listen to audiobooks. =)

A good SF book is always good for me...

Yeah, for long drives, I like to bring a good ACTION story to listen to. I have tried dramas and bios that made me sleepy though and that's not good when you are driving! Thank goodness for the CD changer in my car. I had to punch in some pop or rock to get me awake before I fell asleep at the wheel. HAH!! So I guess you can say I drive and listen "with caution." =)

I can understand that, Carmel. I have quite a number of books myself and with my journaling and altered book collection still growing, I see no ending to read the old-fashioned way in most cases. But now and then when I have to do housework or while I am working on a craft/art project, I can't watch TV or hold a book. This is where listening to one comes in handy. I REALLY like those audio books that are dramatized with sounds and music also. I enjoyed audio books before they became popular by recording my own using a cassette recorder and many hours in a silent room reading my favorite stories to myself. I still have all those cassettes too. =)

I do remember listening to some stories on cassette, and now that I do have internet on my laptop, (in case you missed my most recent posts) so I might consider it, but another problem is, I do so much online, including listening to teachings every week, it would have to be a really good story for me to listen to it..

Yes, I do agree. Just as I have mentioned above, I can't just sit there and listen to such books, but they are great to have and use while doing something else. What kind of audio books do you listen to? Do you get them from the library for free or do you buy them?

Okay. Sounds good. I would like to read... err hear "Treasure Island" myself. I bet that would be so cool to listen to while drawing a ship or a pirate. :)

I tend to get them from the library because they're kind of on the expensive side. My mom has a small collection that I've borrowed from. They've been mostly old classics, Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, and some books I'd already read like the Twilight saga and the Inheritence Cycle.

Hahahahah! I like those smilies you used. Too bad I have a way to go before I can use them. I believe I can't use smilies till I reach 500. Anyway, yes, I agree with you. I would probably fall asleep to the book also if I am lying in bed. :) And yes, that's why if I do something else, it would have be something that doesn't take a lot of concentration so I can pay attention to the story. =)

Yes, when you reach 500, you can do copy and paste also. I guess you do listen to audio book regularly, right?.

No, not often. Nowadays I tend to still read books and my Kindle. Audio books are only for when I am driving or crafting. =) Cute smilies!

Yeah, crafts are great to work on while listening to a good book. I don't knit but I do everything from scrapbooking to beading. I would like to try walking while listening to a book also but the weather is so hot right now that it will have to wait. Walking may keep me out exercising more if I am listening to a good audio book.