Talking Audiobooks - Beneficial, Economical And A Great Entertainment Source

By Duane Edwards

Talking audio books have been around since the early 1930's. They were a caveman type format, very simple and the audio was not how it is today (so I am told). It has taken us about 75 years to really take notice and start listening to audiobooks (are you one?). Have you noticed that simple everyday enjoyments such as reading a book are gone due to not having enough time? Everyday you hear some one saying "there is not enough time in a day"...this does not mean the days are getting shorter. But why are we lacking free time where we use to read a good short story or novel?

Simple, with the adaptation of computers into our everyday lives, most of us use them at work and at home. Think about it, could you live without your computer for a month or more? Probably not, even though it might be nice to be separated from our computers. But it seems they have consumed our lives like nothing else. We have become very reliant on computers and other electronic gadgets for that matter.

Computers were suppose to make our lives simple and create a lot of spare time for us to enjoy with our families, friends and ourselves. Computers definitely made us more efficient, but we now are busier than we ever have been as a result. That extra free time has been consumed by heavier workloads as we are able to do more work in a day with the help of computers. We work and do more each and everyday, heck people are even now working six or seven days a week just to keep up. So as you can see, our lives have become the total opposite to what we thought they would when computers were just coming into existence.

As a result, we slowly have given up on our pleasures of life such as reading your favorite book or magazine. When we do have a little time to read a book (usually while on holidays), we have to rush through it to complete the book before we return to work. End all the madness and grab a hold of a great book! But how, when we have no free time (didn't we just finish stating how there is not enough time in the day anymore)? Yes we did, but there is a solution and a simple one to boot!

Talking Audio Books are the answer to enjoying books once again. Audiobooks have been around for many years and they have advanced right along with computers. The quality of audio books is very high with digital technology, bringing very entertaining audiobooks to listeners all over the world. Start listening today, no matter if you read novels, short stories, poems, magazines, newspapers or special interest books, you will find an audiobook to enjoy!

The best benefits to listening to audio books are:

1. You can literally listen to audio books anywhere, anytime while doing anything! (well ok, it is not recommended while swimming...but why would you)

Listen to your favorite book while you:

• Do outdoor tasks such as cutting the grass, weed the flower beds, water the grass or wash your automobile.
• Do indoor jobs such as vacuuming, washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms, laundry or washing the floors.
• Commute to work, school or driving to the grocery store.
• Travelling on holidays either in planes, trains, or automobiles (there is a great book title right there). Also enjoy an audio book when you are relaxing by the pool or better yet on the beach of the tropical destination.
• Are on lunch break, spare or recess depending if you are working, attending grade school or secondary school.
• Work out at the gym, meditating at home or do yoga, these are all good times.
• Crawl into bed and get ready for a good nights sleep. Best of all your significant other can be lying beside you and will not hear a thing. That annoying night light will not keep them up ever again, you can now listen to a book in the dark. Just put in your ear plugs and listen away while relaxing. I end everyday and begin each nights sleep listening to meditation audiobooks, you will be amazed how well you sleep (ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz...).

2. Any title you want to find will be on an audiobook. Every year more and more book titles are being produced, giving you years of constant listening pleasure (and that is if not another title would be produced again). So a tremendous selection awaits your ears. 3. Save time listening to audio books while you are doing other tasks that are mentioned above in the first point. There are many times when it is impossible to physically read a book, however very possible to listen to an audiobook.

4. Audio books make great learning tools, and can help advance your career. Students can find them very useful as an alternative to mix up their learning process to keep things new and fresh. Do you need or want to learn asecond language? There is no better way to learn a new language than by listening to audiobook language courses. You will be surprised how interesting it is to learn languages by audiobooks.

5. Stop the repetitive question of "are we there yet?" for the next long family haul down the highway. Select the appropriate number of audiobooks for your travelling time to keep the entire family entertained. Throw in an audiobook that the kids can learn important life values through the basis of a well written story.

6. Listening to downloadable audiobooks or using audiobook rental clubs are some of the cheapest ways to enjoy your favorite book titles. It is cheaper than buying the hard copy of the book, so stop reading and start listening while saving some money!

There are many other excellent benefits to audiobooks but we will keep them for another article in the future. Listen to an audiobook the next time you would like to hear a favorite story and gain the audiobook advantage.

Duane Edwards is the owner and webmaster of http://www.audio-books-for-everyone.com/ and audiobook junkie. For more information about audiobooks, please visit us! You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge. You must include the entire author resource box as is, leave all of the links active and do not edit the article in any way.