| My story: I am 32 and addicted to audio books. I | | | | I managed to find some free audio books but still |
| have been trying to cut back but I can't. | | | | paid a lot of money for my audio book collection. |
| I was first introduced to audio books 12 years ago. | | | | I got addicted to the comfort of having a "miniature" |
| My parents bought me a Stephen King audio book as | | | | book. I got addicted to the narration, the music and |
| a birthday present. It included 10 books on cassettes | | | | the sound effects. |
| each 25 minutes. I finished listening to it the first | | | | I got addicted to the ability to listen to audio books |
| night. Then, I started buying audio books for me and | | | | anytime and anywhere (I remember listening to it in |
| for each of my friend's birthdays (whether they liked | | | | the bathroom and in work and in other weird places). |
| audio books or not). | | | | And then I decided to make the move. If I can't |
| As times passed I moved to audio books on CDs | | | | beat it, I would join it. I resigned from work and |
| and later on to downloadable audio books. I have | | | | made a profession out of my hobby - I started |
| known all the online audio book rental services and | | | | making money out of my comprehensive knowledge |
| buying services. In fact, I had an account in most of | | | | of audio books. |
| them. | | | | Nowadays, I write reviews about new audio books |
| My average output was two audio books per week | | | | and serve as a consultant for audio books' publishers. |
| but I remember some weeks where I skipped | | | | I am happy listening to free audio books and being |
| sleeping and listened to up to five audio books. I | | | | paid for it (just finished listening to the last Harry |
| purchased almost any new fiction audio book in the | | | | Potter audio book). |
| market. | | | | Have you tried listening to audio books? Try it. |