This was an experiment in downloading an audiobook from eMusic.

Narrated by James Gale

Edition:Abridged (Hachette Audio)
Length:7 hours, 12 minutes
Published:December 2007

I enjoyed the story well enough, and I would give it 4 stars. The narrator James Gale seemed to have a bit of a problem with the Scottish accents at times (I am Scottish myself), but otherwise did a creditable reading of the book. The eMusic rendition of the audiobook has a lot of issues. First of all it downloads as 94 separate MP3's, which are not automatically bookmarkable on an iPod (I have a utility which could have changed that, but didn't do so.) So this is much less friendly than an Audible.com download or a Recorded Books CD rip. Secondly, there were sections of the book where the audio quality had a lot of issues. blips and hisses, echo chamber sounds, max headroom like reverberation etc. Not enough to destroy the story, but definitely destroyed the experience. So I will give the book a 4, but I would give the audiobook from eMusic a 2.