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Tyler:
I've always been a big fan of audio books.  Audio books are a great way to get an education because they are so easy to fit into your day.

Imagine if you could get 1 hour a day of learning without ever attending school and without ever blocking off 1 hour of your time.  You can!  Just listen to audio books while you are driving in your car, taking the bus, or taking the train. 

Each of us usually spends about 1 hour a day traveling from one place to another, whether it's work, school, or just running errands. 

If you spent just one hour a day, 5 days a week, that's about 250 hours a year that you would have used to educate yourself.  That's about a full semester of learning in school!  Listen just two hours a day and you could get a full year of "school education" without ever attending a class or paying for school.

Audio books are also very cheap if you know where to look.  You can rent them out at the library for just a couple bucks a month.  In my area we have used book stores and audio book rental places. 

You can also find them on http://www.amazon.com or on http://www.ebay.com.

Since I'm in Sales, I like to listen to audio books on how to sell better or other business related books.  There are also books to learn a new language, learn history, "read" classic literature, get your daily scripture in, or "read" a biography.

So, stop listening to talk radio or your favorite music and start taking the time to learn!

D.A.L.U.I.:
I'm really thinking of this as another thing to do to "eat up time" while I travel.  Right now I only have a one gig mp3 player / a FM radio.  I've got to figure out what to get, move up in Sandisk where the radio is part of the deal or move to the iPod system.  I like the pod casts that are available and all that.  Now, which brand to buy and what size.  Size is important too, both storage and physical box. 
I need to know how big in the sense of storage for books, casts and music--all at the same time.  I did sit next to a person w/ a Kindle last week on the way to New York.  Neat little item, my issue is physical size, it's not flexible and it  has the dimensions of a small magazine.  That could present issues.

tomgallagher:
I understand that they just released a version 2 of the Kindle.

Sly Red:
For anyone considering audiobooks check out audible.com

They sell MP3 format audio books of all kinds downloadable directly to your MP3 device.

I use a Creative ZEN Vision M ~ $110 for a 30 Gig player.

Red

Tyler:
The problem with the Kindle is that you still have to read it.  It's hard to read and drive at the same time and is not advised...lol.

As for the size, you can rip any disk into MP3 files which will take up less space or buy the audio books from iTunes in their format.  I think it's about 70 MB per disk if you rip it in 192 kbs.  So, an 8 disk (10 hour) book would be a bit more than 1/2 a gig.  An 8 GB iPod would hold about 15 audio books that are 10 hours each.

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