John Miedema

I’ve tried reading eBooks. On my computer, on my cell phone. I’ve looked at all of Sony’s versions of eBooks. It’s just never worked for me. But I’m a bit of a geek, and thought perhaps I should give audio-books a try. Maybe I would listen to them in some circumstances where I can’t pull out a book. Where would that be? On my bicycle; that would be dangerous. Hmmm, not sure off hand.
Step one. The player. My kids have iPods. I did not until recently. During a recent move …

When I was ten, I borrowed an audio recording (LPs in those days) of Tolkien’s songs and poetry from my local library. I can still hear “The road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began.” Another recording had Tolkien himself reading his poetry. Pleasant memories. Maybe that is what brings me back to trying audio books.
Yesterday I blogged about getting my iPod set up, and about my indignation at audio book prices. Jeff commented that the additional cost might be due to paying for an …

“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent. Theodore Seuss Geisel, Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940.” Thus opens the audio book version of Water for Elephants, the novel by Sara Gruen, narrated by David LeDoux and John Randolph Jones. One couldn’t ask for better narration.
This is part III of a series on a first-timer’s experience with audio books. In this installment, I tell of my experience obtaining an audio book from my local library to play on my computer. (See also …

Welcome back for this fourth and final installment of this series on audio books. I can tell this subject could go on for many more posts. The third post on the library and computer experience generated some great dialog over at librarian.net. Jessamyn West has also previously posted on the subject. If the dialog continues, I’ll join along in comments. But here are my four final thoughts for this series …
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Walt Crawford brings out an issue I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately.
in a state with universal borrowing, …