If you spend any time at all exercising at a gym you can't beat audio books for helping pass the time. They really do take the tedium out of the treadmill. One thing I find audio books particularly good for is filling gaps in my literary education. I prefer to take in the classics as audio books. They are things I know I would never be able to plow through by standard reading I'd surely fall asleep after a few pages. But with audio books I've not only gotten through the likes of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, I found that I liked them! I would have never otherwise have finished Moby Dick. I know, I tried. And I would not have discovered how much I liked Ivanhoe. Dee Marie is right, the Harry Potter series is excellent in audio format, as are Tolkien, and Paolini (Eragon and it's sequel, Eldest). jon

 
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