Eeek! I'm hoping that I did something wrong! I went to the gutenburg site and downloaded an audio book. It was read by the computer, and not very well I might add.
I enjoy *some* audiobooks. If the narrator is good, then I'm a happy camper. If not, I get annoyed and bored. A good example of an excellent narrator would be Jim Dale who read the Harry Potter series. Amazing narrator!!! A bad example would be whomever read Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. I couldn't stand the voice, and everytime I hear the word "Quinn" now, I cringe. That horribly fake southern drawl the narrator used made me want to puncture my eardrums or plug my ears with whatever I could get my hands on!
And, reading ebooks is painful for me. I'm still a big fan of curling up with a good book. I spend enough of my life at a computer that I don't want to read there, too.
But, I can appreciate that it's convenient for people. If I was unable to read free audiobooks, in any form, would be very important to me. I understand that there are libraries participating in downloadable books. I hope that these are read by actual people. Actually, while playing with the podcasts I found someone reading Dracula. It wasn't bad at all, and they broke it down by chapters. That's another venue that I think would be interesting to pursue.
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