If you put a lot of time into right brain tasks like art, textures or 3d point pushing, your eyes will be required and books are out of the question even though the verbal center of your brain is available for input. At these times, rather than a palm pilot, one might make use of a product such as 'Speak Aloud' that can convert any of the thousands of Project Gutenberg e-books into mp3s. My favorite text to speech voice is 'LH Michelle.' Though the timing is sometimes robotic and there is an accent, this synthesized voice does a good job of pacing a narrative, rising appropriately at question marks and pausing at the comas. The best volumes of the last century are freely available with no copyright restrictions and you can create your own audio books on very little disc space. Most mp3 players have a bookmark feature that is handy as you make your way through a 13-hour volume. In my opinion, these home made audio books are vastly preferable to the drone of a tv set during the endless hours of CG creation.

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