Audio books: The good, the bad and the silly

When I was twenty years old, my best friend, Bengi, suggested that I begin listening to audio books during my one hour drive from Attleboro, MA to my job on Cape Cod.  Feeling that I was a serious reader and future scholar, I considered audio books a tool of the illiterate masses and rejected them with all of the snobbery that an uneducated, twenty year old McDonald's manager could muster.

I often think of this as one of the most foolish positions that I have ever assumed in my life.

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