| When you're going on holiday, don't forget to take | | | | Listening through light earpieces, there's nothing to |
| an audio book with you. What is it about audiobooks | | | | hold and nothing to read. The player itself can lie next |
| that makes them such good holiday companions? | | | | to you or tucked under the wristband of your |
| The thing is, the most modern audiobooks of today | | | | shorts, trunks or bikini bottoms, leaving your hands |
| have developed to an interesting stage. The current | | | | free. |
| state of the art is audiobooks that are minute and | | | | You can close your eyes, really relax your whole |
| lightweight that come complete with a battery and | | | | body completely, and focus one hundred percent on |
| earpieces. But although they're small, each one can | | | | the story you're listening to. You can turn over |
| hold many hours of sound recording. | | | | without interrupting the story. Rub more sun-block in, |
| When you're sunbathing, the priority is exposing your | | | | sip a drink, nibble a snack, write a postcard, all while |
| skin to the sun while protecting it with sufficient | | | | carrying on listening. If you need to get up and walk |
| sun-block, and your eyes with sunglasses. These | | | | around, that's fine too. |
| priorities actually fight against the requirements for | | | | When you feel you'd like to take a break from |
| reading, where your eyes need to focus on fine print | | | | listening, all you have to do is touch a button on the |
| and your hands need to hold the book, magazine or | | | | audiobook player and it will stop, marking the exact |
| newspaper so you can read it. | | | | place where you need to pick up the story again. |
| Sometimes sunbathers use the reading material as a | | | | The current breed of up to date audiobooks |
| kind of sunshade over their face and try and read | | | | incorporate a clever bookmarking function which |
| that way, lying on their back with their sunglasses | | | | enables you to go back to the exact place that you |
| off, holding the book aloft. Your eyes will be squinting | | | | left the story. |
| and under strain. Also the sun won't be getting to | | | | This will even happen if the battery stops working. |
| your face as it should be if you're aiming to get an | | | | This is a huge advantage over reading materials |
| even tan. Your arms will get tired from holding the | | | | where, if someone talks to you, the chances are |
| book, and the sunscreen from your hands will stain | | | | that you lose our place and find it quite hard to get |
| the book cover and pages. After a while your arms | | | | back to where you stopped reading. Today's |
| get so tired that you have to turn over on your | | | | audiobooks are so small and unobtrusive. One of |
| stomach. But in this position your eyes will get | | | | them can hold dozens of CDs worth of material or |
| strained looking at a white page which is reflecting | | | | what is equal to a very large conventional book. |
| the sun's rays. And you'll have to prop yourself up on | | | | Soon, audiobooks will be on every holidaymaker's |
| your elbows to read, which will again tire your arms | | | | check-list. A must-have, essential item just like your |
| after a while. | | | | swimming costume, sunglasses and sun-block, but a |
| Audiobooks completely eliminate these problems. | | | | whole lot more interesting and entertaining. |