Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel written by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Since it’s first issue just after the Second World War, been reprinted numerous times and translated 38 different languages. It certainly is one of the most popular works in newer literature.

Lord of the Rings.

This great book is now available as audio book! A sound sample is waiting for you, you’ll be astoinished how the action comes alive in this audio book.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne – Great Blog

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Great Blog about the audiobook The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. The posts pick up the contents and go one step further. If you onw ‘The Secret’ then you should hop over and see if some of these posts can help you get to the essence of what you really want.

Shakespeare Audios – Which One to Choose?

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

When you’re starting to look into the classic literature and especially Shakespeare, you’ll find out that there are many different recordings of the Bard’s plays online. Personally I find that the BBC Audiobook versions are often the ones I like best. But there are other editors who do a good job.

Buying audio books just by the nice pics on the front of the CD has never been my idea of a good buy. Therefore I prefer to visit sites that let me listen to samples. One such site is ShakespeareAudioBook.com which has a great comparative page with the Tragedies written by Shakespeare .

Listening to the samples you get a good idea what the entire recording will be like and I’ve yet to regret a choice I made that way. More sites should do this!

Audio Books – Even My Grandma Likes Them!

Friday, February 9th, 2007

My Grandma has problems reading, her eyes are not as good as they used to be.

I’ve bought her an MP3 player and pre-loaded it with an audiobook, the Thriller Cell by Stephen King. She loves it and has already asked me to get her more books once she will have finished listening to Stephen King, actually it’s Campbell Scott narrating the book.

I’ll certaily be more than happy to do that!

WMA Books – Audios That Play On Your PC Or Laptop

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Did you know that you can make your PC read you a book, or your laptop? Just like good old Grandma used to tell you fairy tales and legends, you can now get your PC or Laptop to read you detective stories, romance novels, or self-help books!

Plenty of New York Times Bestseller authors have audio books published, so if you lack the time to read, why not listen to an audio book as you drive to work?

The WMA format allows these WMA books to play on the Windows Mediaplayer. Professional narrators make the text come alive and it’s a real pleasure to listen to!

Obviously you can also easily burn these WMA books to CD, transfer them into an MP3 file and upload it to your MP3 player, the Zune, or through the iTune Manager add them to your iPod. Plenty of possiblities!

Creative Ways To Use Audio Books To Impress Your Friends

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

You own this great iPod – It has so much storage space you’ll never be able to fill it with just music alone. Here’s a great way to impress your friends and have fun.

Audio Books are hip and you may download them easily from the net. The Audio Books Corner offers over 6’000 audio book downloads

Say you pick a great classic, an audio book by Shakespeare – the coice is vast, so you pick one or two, download them to your iPod. Have a short cut to the file ready.

Maybe you prefer detective stories or romance novels, download these too and enjoy!

When you’re meeting that snob again, who tried to impress you with his cultural stuff last time you met, just mention as a side note, that you really enjoy Shakespeare and that listening to it helps you relax, then pick the shortcurt mark you have prepared, and let him listen in for 30 seconds….

Can you see how much fun that is? Well, go try it out!

Valentine Poems – Download the Audio File for iPod and MP3

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

This year, Valentine will be different for many. Instead of just flowers, chocolate, perfume and whatever else is given on Valentine, many will recieve a Valentines poem collection that can be loaded on the iPod or MP3 player. Your Valentine will be listening to these poems forever – well, maybe that’s a slight exageration – hearing romantic words, selected and offered by you.

Valentine is for lovers. But expressing the feelings of love, the appreciation for the other, the love and emotions – all that is difficult to put into the right words. Writing a Valentines card can be quite a chore…

If you’re short of words, there is a solution: Poets and song writers have spent hours perfecting their poems to tell their love how much they appreciate them, how much they mean for them and how they can not live without them. They did that in much more poetic words than what I write here.

Valentines poems can be downloaded as audio files that fit on a cell phone, iPod or MP3 player. The collection ‘A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems‘ is my favourite, it contains a wide variety of different poems, you can be sure that they will touch the right cords. These twelve poems can also be downloaded individually, making them a nice and not too expensive gift to add to chocolates, flowers or any other, more conventional gifts.

It is easy and only takes a few minutes to upload the audio files with the Valentines poems to the iPod or MP3 player. Your Valentine will have these files with her / him forever to listen to your precious gift whenever they feel like it and miss you!

New York Times Best Seller Authors

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Many of the New York Times Best Seller Authors offer their books also as downloadable audios. If you are one of the many avid readers who simply don’t manage to keep up with all the new books appearing every week, this may be a way to ‘read’ a few more of them.

How much time do you spend, driving, travelling, waiting, doing manual chores that leave plenty of space in your brain to be able to listen to a book well told?

Well, why not try an audio book of a New York Times Best Seller Author?

You can load these audio books on your PC, laptop, MP3 player, some mobile phones or burn it to CD and play it in your car audio system.