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Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Thursday, 15th February 2007 @ 3:33 AM

Audio book CD rentals provide a great service to those who have become audio enthusiasts. The audio book market has become a great source of entertainment and education for many people. First of all, audios have become very popular with those who drive long distances on the freeways. Changing channels on the freeway as a car moves away from a city makes it difficult to tune into a talk radio station or a music station. An audio can be obtained in advance from and audio book CD rental outlet ... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Wednesday, 14th February 2007 @ 12:21 AM

An audio book library is a great source of education and a great entertainment supply. Audios have become very popular for many people from various walks of life. Commuters have found that a good audio book can make the drive more pleasurable and less tedious. Some people commute for as much as three hours a day to and from their work stations. There are others who spend many hours in their cars if they travel for sales or repair jobs. The endless expanse of road in front of these drivers c... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Stephanie Foster @ Sunday, 11th February 2007 @ 3:36 AM

I love science fiction. I have since childhood... third grade, I believe. My oldest sister came home from visiting our dad in Florida with a copy of Robert Heinlein's "The Star Beast" and tried to get my other older sister to read it. She wouldn't. I would (then my other sister read it just to keep up). I was hooked. It didn't take long to find that some people consider loving scifi a little, or even a lot, strange. I've talked to people who just don... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Saturday, 10th February 2007 @ 12:17 AM

Book lovers have long been starting and joining book clubs. There is something very rewarding about sitting around with friends and discussing your varied views on a favorite book. Multitasking has become a way of life and the emergence of audio books has found its way into the lives of busy book lovers across America. If you find yourself among the growing number of audio book fans, you can still experience the fun and friendships that come from joining an audio book club. Starting an a... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Friday, 9th February 2007 @ 12:26 AM

Audio books are probably the best inventions for those of use that miss reading due to being too busy with our daily routines. Those of us who enjoy reading and cannot make time for it are faced with unimaginable frustration when you see book after books on themes and by authors that you enjoy and you even indulge and buy them but never get past the first few pages before your eyes and mind give in and fall asleep. Audio books have helped us enjoy a boring ride in the subway to school or work, m... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Thursday, 8th February 2007 @ 12:28 AM

You're a busy person who loves to read, but just doesn't have the time. When you do have the time to read a magazine, you often see advertisements for new novels, and you wish that you could have time to read them. For people like you, there is a way that you can get things don and enjoy a new novel experience too, thanks to audio books and tapes. About Audio Books and Tapes Audio books and tapes are becoming more and more popular for many reasons. First of all, many peop... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Monday, 5th February 2007 @ 5:21 PM

Technology is a wonderful thing indeed. It makes life easier in almost every ramification. One such area in which technology has made life a lot easier is in the area of searching for information. Gone are those days of spending long hours, days or even weeks looking for the information you want. For example, 20 years ago if you were searching for a particular book you would have to physically visit the Library. As if that isn't manual work enough, you would then have to spend... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By James Lowe @ Tuesday, 30th January 2007 @ 4:27 PM

If you feel like you are wasting a lot of, improvement potential, time I might have an answer for you. It involves a fairly new product on the internet, as we know it, in the last few years. You probably have vaguely heard of it as yet. Let us call it an audio book. You can try many thousands of them, using free samples, as you have time to find the best ones for you. This is possible because a free mp3 audio book sample or purchased downloads are the new product wave that is entertainin... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By James Lowe @ Tuesday, 30th January 2007 @ 4:27 PM

Are you proud of who you are, your conduct, self discipline and what you are as a human being and American? Do you still wear a white shirt, suit and tie to work and when you go out on a date with your girl friend or family? Are you one of the few people who curses little or not at all? Do you sometimes wonder about who started the downhill slide in America, and the world, that started decades ago? I have found a lot of the guilty culprits in a book by Bernard Goldberg. There is ... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By James Lowe @ Tuesday, 30th January 2007 @ 1:04 AM

As an individual who does not care to read you can now listen, that is correct! You can listen to books that you would not care to spend the time reading but are interested in hearing. You can download audio book titles to keep you company while you are doing many different tasks. Some that are easy, some that are boring and even some that are difficult. You can listen to them while you are on the road to college or work. There are so many audio titles now available from good audio book w... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Monday, 29th January 2007 @ 11:45 PM

The beauty with audio books is that you have more than one option for listening to them. For those of us who like to be given lots of options for doing certain things instead of being forced to adapt to just one choice, you definitely have lots of options for listening to your audio book. If you are someone who likes listening while seated on your favorite couch or seated on your desk, listening to your audio book on your cassette tape player (if the audio book is in audiocassette format,... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Monday, 29th January 2007 @ 12:27 AM

No doubt about it - I am a book lover. I love books and have been reading since I was a little baby. My parents made sure they instilled the love of books in me. Unlike my other mates throughout school who always had problems reading, I never had such problems. Reading was fun to me. It was something I would do, not because I had to get good grades in school, but because I just loved to. Like you would expect, I carried this love for books into my adulthood. To tell you how serious... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Sunday, 28th January 2007 @ 12:17 AM

An audio book is the recording of a person reading aloud the content of a book. These audio books are also known as talking books or spoken books. One of the best definitions of audio-books was given by William Swanson in the article "I Hear America Reading": Swanson says, "Audio books are one of those happy marriages of art and convenience loved by frenetic Americans. The idea ... is to enable us to enjoy books - a traditionally solitary and concentration-intensive pastime - ... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Albert TAY @ Thursday, 25th January 2007 @ 10:56 PM

Avid book readers can now "listen"to their books while they are commuting to work or to school! Learning while you are traveling! With the advancement in digital technology,book readers are now downloading their favourite books from popular audio bookstore to their iPods and other MP3 players and it has become the next hottest trend in US and UK. The audio books industry is the next big thing to watch out for! In UK, over $124 million worth of audio books were sold in 2004 and i... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Thursday, 25th January 2007 @ 5:38 PM

I didn't believe it the first time I heard a friend of mine say - "I benefit from the reading of 50 books each year... in my spare time". Knowing how demanding her time was because of her top position in her job and because she is a single mom, I was certain she was lying and I told her so. Smiling, she insisted that it was the truth. I would have continued arguing with her until she pointed out to me that she didn't have to physically "read" them, ... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Albert TAY @ Thursday, 25th January 2007 @ 12:21 AM

It is always a challenge to get children to sit down quietly and read a book, especially kids who are just beginning to read or those who have difficulty in reading, audio books is a good way to integrate fun and interaction in learning. Parents can now have an easier time in teaching their kids with audio books. Educational experts have agreed that books with narration are easier for kids to absorb and remember. Kids enjoy story telling and could remember stories if they heard it ... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By James Lowe @ Wednesday, 24th January 2007 @ 12:28 PM

Welcome to the world of sound. Are you a good listener? Did you have a hard time learning by holding your attention focus to your school teachers years ago? Did your mind literally fly out the classroom window when you tried to be a good student and listen to your teachers years ago? Almost all of you will find that you have grown out of the concentration problem as you got older. We settle down as we mature and can hold our concentration better. Unfortunately many people never learned to... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Eddie Lamb @ Wednesday, 24th January 2007 @ 12:24 AM

There's no denying the fact that most people hated reading as kids. Only a few kids enjoy reading, especially if there is an alternative. Audio books have now made it possible for children to get better access to materials that they don't like reading. Of course they must still read, but reading any material and still hearing it makes the reading much more interesting. Many schools have now taken audio books not just to the homes of their students but also in the c... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By James Allen @ Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 @ 10:08 AM

The fact is, if you're an avid reader, audiobooks are format you should consider. Despite the fact that fans of physical books often are hard-pressed to switch to the audio format, there are plenty of good reasons to do so. In this article, we'll look at some reasons you should at least start to download audio books and listen to them occasionally instead of just sticking with old fashioned paperbacks and hardcovers. To start with, audio book downloads are a heck of lot more con... more...

Culture and Society » Books | By Albert TAY @ Thursday, 18th January 2007 @ 2:58 PM

Many of my friends regardless whether they are working or busy at home taking care of kids,they never have the time to sit down and read their favorite book. Work can tire you out as well and by the time you sit down, you just want to lie on your bed and start dozing off. Many of us buy a lot of books but never had the chance to complete the book and some didn't even have the chance to take the book out from the bag even! Below are some of the specific advantages that ... more...