{"id":39,"date":"2004-08-27T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=39"},"modified":"2004-08-27T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T12:23:47","slug":"how-i-read-books-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"How I Read Books Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audible.com<\/a> is a fairly cool service where you download audio books. You can then put those books on a CD or on your compatible MP3 player. It seems like they have a big selection of books. They also have a subscription service.<\/p>\n

They have two types of subscriptions. One, for $19.95 per month, where you get any two books in that month. And second, where for $15 you get a book and a periodical (daily, weekly or monthly magazine).<\/p>\n

I consider this a pretty good service for somebody like me, who commutes for more than 1\/2 hour to work. (It takes me close to an hour each way. \ud83d\ude41 ). That’s why I signed up for the first option, where I get two books per month, plus, along with that I get a pretty cool MP3 player. It’s a basic player, but it beats burning each book on a CD: the transfer is quick. One cool thing about it, though, is that whenever I stop it, it remembers the last position I was at (for each book). That’s very helpful.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think Audible gives you a pretty good deal. Most of these books are priced more than $20, so it’s like getting one for free each month. Plus, I can finally put my driving time to better use. Uhm… maybe driving will not be that bad after all… See for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audible.com is a fairly cool service where you download audio books. You can then put those books on a CD or on your compatible MP3 player. It seems like they have a big selection of books. They also have a subscription service. They have two types of subscriptions. One, for $19.95 per month, where you get any two books in that month. And second, where for $15 you get a book and a periodical (daily, weekly or monthly magazine). I consider this a pretty good service for somebody like me, who commutes for more than 1\/2 hour to work. (It takes me close to an hour each way. \ud83d\ude41 ). That’s why I signed up for the first option, where I get two books per month, plus, along with that I get a pretty cool MP3 player. It’s a basic player, but it beats burning each book on a CD: the transfer is quick. One cool thing about it, though, is that whenever I stop it, it remembers the last position I was at (for each book). That’s very helpful. Overall, I think Audible gives you a pretty good deal. Most of these books are priced more than $20, so it’s like getting one for free each month. Plus, I can finally put my driving time to better use. Uhm… maybe driving will not be that bad after all… See for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}