My goal is to read one book per week. I launched myself on this track in the summer of 2001 while working as a Grill Cook at Hume Lake Christian Camps. Before this time I wasn't much of a reader and since then have read many many books. However, the book a week goal hasn't been very realistic. Until recently.
I discovered the power of Audiobooks when I got my Saturn from my Grandparents in Spring 2002. One advantage it had over my old car (besides newer with less miles) was that it has a tape player. With a six hour drive back to college ahead of me I went out and bought my first book-on-tape. Tony Hillerman's "The First Eagle," I enjoyed the experience so much that I actually took the long way home so that I could finish the book.
We're not quite up to "recently." MP3s, need I say more. With the advent of MP3 players I saw the advantage of buying a MP3 playing CD-man because one disk can hold twelve albums worth. This was spurred on by me realizing the awesomeness of listening to music while walking to school.
Moved to Cleveland, got married, and Katie helped me to discover the awesome resource that is the public library. The public library which has Audiobooks on CD. One Audiobook which might be up to 12 CDs fits quite nicely on an MP3 disk. At some point I realized that listening to an Audiobook while doing the dishes made the chore almost bearable.
This past Christmas my parents gave me an iPod nano which will fit an Audiobook of any size, and the rest is history. Thus, even though I find myself insanely busy reading is possible! And I owe it all to Hume Lake, my Saturn, MP3s, the Public Library, my wife, my grandparents, my parents, and my iPod. Thanks.
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