It occurred to me that since I started getting serious about contributing to Project Linus, I haven't been reading enough. (Yeah, yeah. Define "enough".) I watched a season of Mad Men. I am a good way through that French History course on Academic Earth. But the reading has been slow.
Then I was watching Diggnation and Kevin Rose said that he had signed up for audible.com, a company that sells audio books that you can download. There is a monthly fee - $14.99, I think - and you can download one book per month. Well, you know I don't pay $15.00 for my books these days. But a seed was planted in my little head.
So I was in Half Price Books and decided to check out the audio book section. OMG, are they expensive. $20.00 for a used copy. Expensive, and I am kinda squeamish about putting strange disks into my computer. Then I was in Barnes and Noble. I forget what I touched first, but it was $60.00.
$60.00 for a set of CDs of someone reading to you! $14.99 a month sounds rather less crazy.
I remembered that I had gift cards left from Christmas, so I found two on sale at BN and The Zahir was a new-in-plastic copy at Half Price Books. So that is the experiment.
About Me
- Anne
- I am an HR professional, perennial student, and volunteer. I read all sorts of articles on personal finance and also the travel section and plenty of books and I will tell you all about them. I still believe "if you want to get something done, you ask the busiest person". I live in Glenview, IL.
Crowdrise is about online fundraising, event fundraising, volunteering and having the most fun in the world while doing it. Crowdrise is way more fun than anything else aside from being all nervous about trying to kiss a girl for the first time and her not saying something like 'you've got to be kidding me.'
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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia, by Asne Seierstad
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