Back when my wife and I got married, we had a 1600 mile drive to make from Montana to Iowa. Knowing we had this long drive ahead of us we decided that we’d pick up an audio book to help us get down the road. Although a bit expensive it was well worth it.

Later on in college I was taking a elementary education literature class and we were talking about different ways to read. Reading could be done in a variety of ways and one of those was listening to audio books. At the time I had a one way commute of 20 minutes that was perfect for knocking out a few chapters of an audio book each day. I quickly zoomed through a variety of audio books but mostly Harry Potter. If you’ve looked at prices for audio books you know they can be expensive, so how did I get around that?

Your best bet for audio books, if you don’t want to purchase them, is to hit up your local library. It may take some time to find what you are looking for, but I’m confident that you’ll find something you can listen to while on the road or working out (if your on the treadmill for an extended period of time these will really help you along!). Other avenues of getting an audio book: iTunes, Amazon MP3 and RSS feeds. I’ll go into the RSS feeds a bit more early next week and talk about some other things on audio books.

So do you listen to audio books? What are some of your favorites?