Best Audio Books

What is the difference?

Unabridged books are the entire book. Abridged books are a shortened version, with some elements removed.

When things are abridged, whoever does it makes sure to not remove anything important to the plot, but they do remove a lot of things like lengthy descriptions, or conversations between characters that don’t contribute to the plot.

Basically, abridged works, whether audio books or regular books, are just shortened considerably. That makes them accessible to more readers, who either don’t have the time or the inclination to read or listen to the original.

I always go with unabridged if I have a choice. Books are a type of art, and to get the full experience you need to take in everything the author wrote. It was included in the book for a reason, however small. Taking anything out makes it into a different book, in my opinion.

A long time ago, I listened to an audio book of a Stephen King novel. In it, there are flashbacks where the main character is in a house with his father (and maybe brother?) and his father always calls him "Scooter" or "Scooter, you ol’ Scoot!" I remember the flashbacks end around the time his father goes crazy and kills a worker from a plant that was coming to check on the father since he hadn’t been to work in a long time. There was also something about a large amount of money ($700?) in a jar that was burned or ripped up or in some other way destroyed, and that’s when the son ran away. If anyone remember’s the name of the novel to which I’m referring, I would really appreciate your help. Thanks so much!

Definitely Lisey’s Story, I’ve just finished reading it!

Where can I download ALL of the harry potter audio books, for free, read in english by stephen fry???? Thanks

http://www.imeem.com/ and type harry potter audio book in playlists

Is it possible to get memory card readers /usb input connectors so I can play mp3 music & audio books to a simple Hifi system? or on my car’s radio, cd,player if so where?? and how?? …money is tight (isn’t it always) thanks
Jack

It is now legal in the UK to use small short-range FM transmitters connected to an MP3 player.

There are many available for the iPOD but limited for other types of MP3 player.

Basically, you plug the device into your iPOD and it broadcasts the audio on a short range FM frequency which you then tune your car radio into. The quality is equivalent to listening to the radio.

There are various types available, but for about £35 you should be able to get one that plugs into the cigarette lighter (so your iPOD charges) and allows you to change the frequency broadcast to avoid interference.

Harry Potter used to be my favorite series until I found God. I found in the bible where it says the things in the book are an abomination to God. I ignored it. I thought there was really no harm in the book it is just a make believe story about wizards. One day I was listening to Harry Potter on audio book and it dawned on me to ask God what he wants me to do. (should have been my first reaction but I was new to all this) He let me know without a doubt that it was not conducive to my relationship with him. I got rid of copies and audio books because it was going to be an obvious stumbling stone for me. Now I need a book to replace it .. one that I love. I have been trying to stick with christian authors so any suggestions would be wonderful.
I tried Frank Peretti and his books scare me to death! I don’t like the demon stuff. I don’t really want anything scary.
WOW – I have no idea people would be so sensitive about a question for a good book. I never asked anyone to not read it or tried to even get anyone to agree with me. I had no idea I would offend anyone or be insulted. I truely appoligize to those I offened and thank those of you who gave suggestions.

The Bible – there is so many out there talking about the Bible without a clue you should learn about what it actually says

C.S. Lewis – Out of the silent planet trilogy

JRR Tolkien – Lord of the Rings (Tolkien was actually one of the people that lead Lewis to Christianity)

Young Pilgrims Progress.

Books by Josh McDowell

There are quite a few books you can read at any Christian bookstore or there is a good selection here
http://family.christianbook.com/?p=1143702&event=ORC.

P.S.
Harry Potter books and the author’s promotion of wicca and witchcraft are clearly the issue with them. On the other hand Pullman’s books should be avoided too as they are written by a man filled with so much arogance and prejudice against Christianity if it was anything else he would have been charged…. besides they stink.

P.S.
Kevin, if you are recommending Dawkins and Hitchens books they aren’t suitable even for toilet paper. I recently paid $1 for the Hitchens book and by the time I got half way through I couldn’t stomach the lies and trash and tossed it in the recycle. They both are intelligent men but when they write about God and Theology they write like an angry teen ager with the underlying theme being I hate my parents…. and the teen could probably write the material better.

I have imported all the Twilight books from the cds I have onto my library. The problem is I don’t want them to appear when I shuffle my songs. I was wondering if there was a way to add them to either my podcast or audio book section. Anyone know?

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Audio books for things such as Engineering, Languages, Computer Programming (php, asp etc). Anything like this would be fantastic.

If you join the library you will get all the audio books that you need why don’t you try it,its free to join.

I am looking to download the audio book ‘Marley & Me’
can anyone help with a link to this torrent
thanks
no seeds

the best torrent search engine: Bitgle

http://bitgle.com

I have a deaf relative who would like to listen to audio books. What are the best sites for free audio books? Thanks.

http://librivox.org/newcatalog/genres.php

I download audio books from the library to a program provided by the library called Overdrive Media Console on my XP computer with no problem. When I try to do it on my Vista computer, I get a message, No Windows Media Audio Shortcut (WAX) Path Was Included on the Command Line. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem?

Hi,
I am getting the same problems! Have you found a solution yet? Tech support, so far, has told me to delete all the books from the temporary internet files, then redownload. They think the license may have been corrupted during the download. It didn’t help. If you want to email me, I will continue to share what they send.
cestracy@comcast.net
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