Comments on: Audible Tries to Tap Into Youth Market

By: NHS

NHS — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:56:34 +0000

I can still hear both the ding and the little sparkling noise that signaled you to turn the page.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:44:23 +0000

OMG – Karen, I had those too. I totally forgot about them. We had a portable record player and I remember the first time I was able to load them myself. I had the Rescuers too. I don’t remember other ones that I had.

Wow, what a walk down memory lane there.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:57 +0000

When I was a kid (way, way back in the dark ages), I had dozens of “books on records”. Many of them were packaged with a small book, so you could follow along in the book as you listened to the record. I loved these when I was just learning to read – it definitely made me a better reader. My parents still read to me every day, but there’s no way they could have read to me for as many hours as I spent listening to those records – I remember that I actually wore out the grooves for “The Rescuers” which was one of my favorites. (This was before movie videos, so the record was the closest equivalent!)

By: NHS

NHS — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:14 +0000

I do listen to audio books myself and the neighborhood carpool dad always plays audio books in the car. My daughter listened to Pullman’s Golden Compass and that made her want to read the Subtle Knife.
However in a way I think an audio book is a really lazy way to read. At least with TV you have to keep your eyes open, listening to book you don’t even have to do that. *lol*

OT: My #1 problem with Romance audio books is having one reader. With Sophie’s Gee’s Scandal of the Season all the women sounded like Dame Edna and with the Victoria Alexander I bought I couldn’t take the hero’s dialogue seriously spoken in such a feminine voice so I gave up.

By: Phyl

Phyl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:23:23 +0000

My nearly-12-year old loves audio books and will happily consent to riding in the car all over town to run (boring) errands just to have his books playing in the car so that we all listen together. BUT, he still insists on having his dad read aloud to him most nights before bed. You’re right, Jane. There’s no need for the two to be mutually exclusive.