My children love audio books. They love to listen as they go to bed each night. All from the youngest ones to the oldest ones. I’m not sure if my “all grown up” ones still do. I know one of my married daughters recently told me that it bothered her husband, so she quit, but she misses it. (I told her to try headphones; that’s what I do – making sure the cord is tucked up out of the way.)
My older children, (the “all grown up” ones,) started with cassette tapes, things like Jungle Jam, Adventures in Odyssey, Your Story Hour, and other Bible Stories. Since then we’ve added the Jonathan Parks series, and many classic books, like Les Miserables, The Christmas Carol, Silas Marner, Pilgrim’s Progress, books by G.A. Henty, etc. and of course we have the Bible itself. For me, in addition to the Bible, I listen to teaching tapes on home education, various Christian teaching and sermon tapes, and classics – my favorite, Pilgrim’s Progress.
Audio books have “grown up” over the years too. As I said, we started with cassettes and moved on to CD’s, but now we have even more options. We can download (both for free and for pay) books and sermons to listen to on the computer, or to burn to CD, or to transfer to our Palm or ipod. Or we can purchase “chips” to play on a small digital player, or Palm, or computer.
I subscribe to several podcasts of sermons, and my ipod is usually loaded with sermons. I put some of these and books on my Palm. My children still have “old fashioned” CD players. But I am seriously thinking about getting them the digital chip players. The books seem to be a bit more expensive, but NO scratching and breaking!
One more avenue is available in in the digital realm of books, that is books read by a digital voice. This is one I just can’t get used to. I simply cannot listen to them. Of course, that is how many of the “free” ones are able to be free, by not using hours of a human’s time to read them. I’ll pay for the person, thank you.
Me and My House (that’s us) has over 3000 audio books available including Blackstone, Adventures in Odyssey, Radio Theatre, the Bible on CD, Classic Literature, through our Afflicate with CBD. Most of these are at a discount. If the series/book you’re looking for isn’t linked here, you can enter the title your interested in in the search box for CBD in our sidebar.
Here’s some we don’t have yet, but we’ve read the books and the audios are on our wishlist – you might consider them too: Peter Marshall’s Light and the Glory series, Basket of Flowers, America’s Godly Heritage and others by Wallbuilders, The Swiss Family Robinson, and I could go on and on.
Stay tuned tomorrow for more on Audiobooks – AND more links to other resources – including FREE downloads!
