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Where/when do you listen?


Audiobooks are great while eating pizza or burgers, where print books require a juggling act!
I second audiobooks during cooking, cleaning and ironing, too.
I travel a bit, so listen on planes as well.





I also started listening to my MP3 player when I would sit up with my 94yo dad during his last 7 months of life. He would try to climb out of bed at night so audio books were perfect for reading in the dark.


If I'm REALLY into the book, I'll bring the CDs in the house and listen while I do dishes, cook dinner, do the laundry. I'd listen while working out, but they have TVs at my gym.... ;)


She has been in the hospital for 23 days so I have spent a lot of time with a book in my ear lately.

Laura, I do the same thing and will sit in the car in the garage to listen to a good part. My oldest son worried that I would get carbon dioxide poisoning so I now wait until I am ready to turn off the car before I close the garage door.
Audio books sure are a great way to "read" while accomplishing other things.




I also tend to have my MP3 player plugged into my ears while exercising, cooking and cleaning, and while knitting. Nice and relaxing. :)


I listen to books while I cook, do housework, fold laundry, curl my hair -- the daily, 'have to do' stuff. But I often listen much more than that because I have MS and sometimes I hurt a lot or I am very dizzy with vertigo and listening gives me a fun challenge for my mind. I have even listened many times while drawing and doing Sudoku. Other times I feel fine, but am just really into the book and listen when I should be doing other things. I just finished "Three Cups of Tea" and loved it.

I used to listen to my iPod on my bike. I learned from experience that's very stupid."
Yeah.... I listen in my car also, which is great when I have the CDs with me, but my car is too old to have an MP3-player jack in it, so if I have a book on my Zune.... well, I'm not buying the $70 car package, so I'd drive with my headphones in. BUT, my husband told me that it's illegal to drive with headphones on, so I've got a dilemma. I usually drive with one in and one out.





"The law varies from state-to-state, and is not federally legislated.I'm in Texas, and if I'm just listening to an audiobook in one ear, I can definitely hear emergency vehicles and vehicle horns. Woo! Now I don't even have to feel guilty!
"For example, in Texas, there is no law concerning headphones at all, so it is perfectly legal to wear headphones while driving (but is just as unsafe as leaving your music loud enough to overshadow emergency vehicles and vehicle horns).
"In California, unless specifically permitted to do so by law (such as emergency vehicles, highway maintenance crews, earplugs to protect from injury, hearing aids, etc.), you are barred from wearing headphones on both ears."
- From Wiki Answers




(If anyone hasn't experienced one of those, turn the volume WAY down on your computer, and go to this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0o9YyWXKg . You only need to listen for about 10 seconds to get the drift... This is more what it sounds like from a distance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6Q_NvPHNg )

The Philips HN060/37 Noise-Canceling Earbuds appears and costs about the same as what I bought. Amazon.com sells them for $33.85.

Yeah, there are a lot of different noise-canceling headphones out there, and they ARE good for listening on planes. I have the type that cover the ear, and sometimes when I'm on a plane I don't even listen to music or to a book, I just turn 'em on and go to sleep.

It's my understanding that the more expensive noise-canceling headphones that cover the ear are very effective at cutting out background noise, and thus they are definitely not a good idea for use while driving.
On the subject of driving:
It is my opinion that listening to audio books while driving is not as dangerous as listening to music. The sound of a siren, horn honking or squealing tires is much more likely to be covered up by the sound of music than the sound of the a human voice. I know from personal experience that music hides the sound of my cell phone ring more effectively that an audio book.

It is my opinion that listening to audio books while driving is does not as dangerous as listening to music. The sound of a siren, horn honking or squealing tires is much more likely to be covered up by the sound of music than the sound of the a human voice."
Agreed. Listening to an audiobook in the car isn't much different than if you had a friend in the car with you and were talking with them.



There is always a book in mp3 player. I listen as I commute back and forth to my day job, sometimes during my lunch hour, while doing housework (almost makes housework fun), running household errands, and sometimes in the evenings.




Fiona, it funny you mention tap player. I tried to buy a small portable one in the summer and I thought the salesman at The Future Shop was going to laugh in my face. I found out you can't buy tape players any longer.

Wendy, if you can find a small portable stereo. We call them boombox lol. You can play CDs and Tapes as well as radio too. See if you have them around. If not, we will have to find a way for us to send you 1 from our local Argos (catalogue shop).
Anyway, I listen when I exercise, go for walks in the woods, fold laundry, cook, iron (the few times a month I do that), and take long car trips. How about you?