[Elsi]

I do both -- but read a lot more text than audio books.

Most years, I keep a list of all the books that I read. So far in 2008, I have completed 56 books -- 3 audio books and 53 text books. I received my Kindle in mid-February and have read 19 books on it. Since I do read some number of Young Adult and children's books, I decided this year that I'd keep track of the number of pages read as well. For electronic and audio books, I use the page count from the Mass-market paperback book (or the hardback if the book isn't out in paperback). Note that I only read unabridged audio books.

I read in all spare moments -- at meals, when traveling, in the movie theatre waiting for the feature to start, and in bed before I go to sleep at night. I listen to audio books when I'm alone in the car. Hubby and I take several cross-country automobile trips each year. He's aphasic and cannot sustain the attention keep up with the plot and action in audio books, so he plays music while I read. His aphasia is the reason why I read at meals -- he can do only one thing at a time, and goes silent while eating.

Like the availability of free e-books here at MobileRead and other places on the Internet, you can also get free audio recordings. Volunteers have recorded many public-domain books which can be downloaded from librivox.org

By the way, I've noticed that I cannot move easily from text to audio or vice versa. For example, I read the first book in the "Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency" in text -- and have read all the sequels that way. I listened to the first in the "44 Scotland Street" series on CD -- and found that I was not happy trying to read the next book in text, so I went out and bought it in audio. I'm now in the middle of the 3rd book in that series.