It's All in the Listening - Audible Adventures

I agree with you Kelley!

I learnt to love audios ...... and I'd love to be able to listen to more of the categories ..... or give us some more of the classics by Linda Howard or those yummy SEALS by Suzanne Brockmann

I've just discovered that lovely edit CSS option below, so now it's so much easier to read what I'm typing as I'm typing it!  LOL .......... bummer though that we have to make those changes everytime we want to post

Kelley, I have a question? ...... what is that a picture of in your signature? .... it's very dark on my end and I can't quite make it out .... though it does stand out and grab your eye     

well ... this all doesn't have much to do with Audibles ..... so I best get on topic!!  LOL  

Lorie, I love my ipod .... I just wish I could figure out how to listen to an audio book and type up blog reviews at the same time  

HOW??? ..... please tell me how you can listen to an audio book and read threads at the same time???? ....... I need to know this!!

don't you miss things, either in what you're reading or what you're listening to?? .......

I'm always reading and watching t.v. .... and I miss so much of the t.v. program that when the show comes around again on reruns I'm insisting to DH that we haven't seen it yet!  .... he likes to roll his eyes and then tell me to read another book!  LOL

ROFL!!  Jayne!   ...... and I can see you doing all that too!  LOL

 I do know how to multi-task ... (tell me a woman who doesn't ;)  )   ..... and it's amazing how much of a conversation I can eavesdrop on, er, accidentally pick up on while I'm typing away at the office ... but somehow listening to an Audible and typing defeats me, I tend to have to rewind on the Audible to get what I missed

I suppose practice makes perfect, :)    .... I'm just not practicing enough! LOL

>Kelley, I have a question? ...... what is that a picture of in your signature? .... it's very dark on my end and I can't quite make it out .... though it does stand out and grab your eye  

Thanks Katherine. Sorry I'm just answering. i just saw the posts today when the new forums offically opened! The picture in my signature block is one of the "signature" graphics for my book review website CK2S Kwips and kritiques (who Debiw and now crystalrclass also belong to). It's a pair of Irish step dancing shoes on a green background with my name splashed across it. And I forget so have to double check, but I do believe i set it up so if you click on it, it takes you to the home page of the website.

>so does this mean you're a master of "the dance"?  ... cool

LOL Don't I wish? No I've never danced a single step of Irish dancing. Our website has a Celtic/Irish theme since we opened on St. Pat's in 2006. So the shoes fall into that theme.

I'm starting to go through the Stephie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, just finished the first book, which was great!

I agree with KatherineT - I would love to hear Suzanne Brockmann's Seal series on Audible!

I am soooo frustrated! .... I misplaced (hopefully not lost) my nano ... and I so wanted to do some listening this weekend while the "game" was on  ..... don't know where it's gone too ..... last I recall seeing it was just between Christmas and New Years ...   

well, if it doesn't show up I'm getting myself an ipod shuffle while the other one hibernates 

... Harry Potter ... I have the first four books in print and would like to get the last books as well .. but I was wondering if I might enjoy these more as audios .... anyone out there who have "listened" to the Potter books?

thanks!

my first audio was Linda Howard's MacKenzie's Mountain .... yummm!   .... and then I heard the next two MacKenzies  :) 

good listening!

Funny you asked about Harry Potter. That was my very first audio book. I've done the entire series in audio. Well, except book 7. I actually read the hard cover of that one, though I put the audio in when I couldn't read the book. I never actually read the first 6 books in print. Did them all in audio and saw the movies.

Jim Dale who is the performer for the series is AMAZING! He does a fantastic job making voices for everyone. If you ask me, I could not have picked a better first book for my audio experience. Jim Dale is the reason I'm an audio fan. I think I got alittle more out of it that way just ebcasue he is so amazing tht I picked up on sp much I probably wouldn't have skimmed over and not realized were I reading them myself.

My current audio reads are Dean Koontz's The Darkest Night of the Year in the car. and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova on my MP3 player everywhere else. Both books ahve good narrators. The one performer of Historian (it's done by a man and a woman) I have listened to before (Paul Michael) but the other two performers are new to me.

I only had a Shuffle for a short period of time and I still have it but never use it since I got my new one.

You can't go straight from CD to iPod directly. You have to run it through the iTunes program to do whatever conversion it needs first. I never tried to burn CDs to my iPod but I'd think you can do it. i have burned CDs to my player I have now though with no problems. but it's a different brand so i don't need iTunes.

Tiger-

Most libraries, mine included, have downloads which use Microsoft Media Player drm (Digital Rights Management) to control checkout time. These can be run on a number of PDAs with the use of an ancellary program. What type of computer and what type of PDA are you attempted to get to work. I use as standards Windows XP computer and a Palm TX

I'm having problems with that digital rights thing at present. Checked out some books from the library (two Debbie MAcomber audios) but when I went to download I got an error about the digital rights. and am now trying to figure out how to fix that. *sigh*

but yes a lot of libraries do that now. my local library JUST started doing that very recently but anotehr library that allows you to get a library card without living in their city has been doing it a while and i've gotten several that way, eBooks and audio.

Kelley, that was actually in my paper in the business section.  From what I've read, it's a done deal as they were talking about how it affected the stocks of both companies (and that part I don't remember! LOL)

well, Amazon has been linking to Audible for quite awhile for audio downloads, so this isn't surprising

I wonder what will happen with Audbile's strong link with iTunes?  .... hopefully, that will not change

I've been busy catching up on the podcasts ... I've really been enjoying them

now I'm ready to start a new audio .... so what are you listening to? .... or have you finished anything recently that just knocked your socks off?

Anita you might try some of the young adult books. James Patterson's Maximum Ride series is great to listen to with some sound effects too. Also I listened to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series which begins with The Lightening Thief. I've listened to quite a few childrens books and they're great. Some you can download from my library so maybe yours does that too.

not to mention the ones she's borrowed from her library. She might be a good source for you. She also teaches in an elementary school, so she's given me some good suggestions for my kids and me to listen to around town. I can forward an email to her if you want an in-depth conversation with her. My public is rmg _ 303 at yahoo dot com (without the spaces and with normal symbols for at and dot).

Think about classics, too. We've listened to The Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce (a Young Adult = YA book series) last year but you need to know that the h does take lovers outside of marriage during the course of the 4 books (not the first one, though). It's all behind closed doors and there's actually not much sexual tension but I don't know what you're ready for your kids to be exposed to so I wanted to warn you about that.

When you're actually at the library, you might ask the librarian for YA suggestions. You might also search at audible.com and then see what your library carries that piqued your interest. Audible has different search features than my library's catalogue system, so I use both to help me find new things.

Good luck,

Penn

Hello_All,

I-don't-have-a-shuffle-or-iPod,nano-or-whatever.

I-basically-have-a-good-cd-player.I-now-have-a-portable-cd-player,and-a-portable-dvd/mp3/cd

player.I-recently-purchased-the-entire-Bible

being-read-by-a-list-of-"who's-who"-of

African_American-actors-called,"The-Bible

Experience".Its-in-the-NIV-translation.Its-very

dramatic.The-public-library-has-lots-of-books

on-cd,tape,etc.I-have-posted-a-review

of-"Rhett_Butler's_People"-which_I

thoroughly-enjoyed.

Lorie,I-was-just-about-to-suggest-that

you-might-look-behind-your-headboard-on

the-floor.I-was-reading-a-book-and-"lost"

it.I-found-another-copy-at-the-used-book-store.

After-completing-the-read,I-'found'-it-behind

the-headboard-on-the-floor!

I-will-make-myself-learn-all-these-new

technologies.Eventually-I'll-start-downloading

the-stories.I-haven't-been-up-to-date-reading

the-online-stories.I'll-have-to-take-my-time

off-and-purposely-read-all-the-ones-I'm

behind-on.Some-have-already-been-stored

in-the-library.

Aurelene