Audio Books Opinion Review

I have long been a road warrior and so have been listening to audiobooks for years.  Cracker Barrel was my introduction to this medium of "reading".  They still have a great deal on their audio books.  You pay full price for the "book", but you can bring them back and get a refund less the weekly charge.  It used to be $3/week, but it's been it's been a few years since I was last there so it could be more.

 These days I download audiobooks from iTunes.  The drawback of downloads from this source (or from eMusic, Audible.com, etc.) is you pay full price for a book you most likely will just delete later or keep on your computer's hard drive for eternity.  Same problem if you purchase from a book store.

 Believe it or not, the Chicago Public Library now offers downloadable audiobooks to checkout, which is a much better option than iTunes...except their downloads are not compatible with iPods.  Figures, right?

 Regardless of how I've obtained my audiobooks over the years, they are definately a salvation to the never ending solo roadtrip, not to mention the 70-mile roundtrip workday commute between Chicago and Hoffman Estates.

Another poster commented on monotone narrators.  There definately are some audiobooks where this is the case.  Especially in non-fiction selections.  But many books are narrated by film and stage stars and books in a series are often narrated by the same person.  Those of us who are super-listeners may even search for books narrated by a specific person instead of genre or author.  (OK...maybe that's just me).