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I started listening to audiobooks when I was in college. Going home to visit the family consisted of 300 miles solo driving (majority of it seemed to be 2 lane country roads stuck behind tractors). Listening to Keith Szarabajka read Dean Koontz's "Fear Nothing" made me wish the trip was longer. I only listen to unabridged versions and prefer narrators who infuse their delivery with personality. Right now I'm working my way through the Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters. I love the way Barbara Rosenblat "ages" Rames' voice! These days I listen primarily at lunch in my car. Just plug a tiny speaker into the mp3 player and I'm a happy camper sitting under a tree with the windows rolled down. It's a good escape from the daily insanity that is my job.
Ebooks are for breakfast and bedtime reading and eating alone in restaurants. Lately my restaurant reading has been interrupted by curious wait staff wondering about the beautiful piece of technology resting next to my plate. I'm currently trying to read my way through manybooks.net. In fact, I'm downloading the Scarlet Pimpernel series (had no idea Baroness Orczy wrote so many!) right now.
I think my preference has to be reading ebooks. There's something about concocting my own mental image of a setting or character that appeals to my creative mind.
Dreamer
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