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Posted on September 28, 2008
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Audio cassettes are more or less redundant and CD’s are not too far behind. Since the

invention of MP3 technology, iPods and MP3 players are now the gadgets to have because

without leaving your armchair, you can download your favorite audio book immediately from

the internet.

So, what audio books exist?

All you have to do is enter

‘best audiobooks’ in Google and you will be presented with a wide selection of websites

containing everything from The Bible to The Koran to the life story of Lauren

Bacall.
The categories listed there include Thrillers, Language Learning, Self Help,

Among the titles are fully dramatized plays by William Shakespeare along with serialized

radio shows like The War of the Worlds, The Al Read Show and Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Two very interesting categories which are not commonly known about are Self Help and Health and Recreation which deal with nutrition,

healthy living and medical advice.

What’s in the Self Help Category?

This category is further divided into several sub-categories.
Under the heading Creativity Audio Books there are 146 titles including Be

Creative by Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas: Release your imagination and recognise your creative

intelligence. Creativity is a major economic force of the 21st century. In this 1 hour audiobook and in concise steps, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas explain what ‘creativity’ is and how creative thinking can be learned. Making use of exercises and casestudies, the authors show you essential skills for the workplace and show how developing creative ability can help us achieve harmony, balance and personal success in our lives.

Other titles in the books on audio series include Get Up and Do It!, The Confidence Plan and Find The Balance.

There are 308 Health and Fitness Audio Books including audiobooks about diets,alternative medicine, spiritual living, anti aging, fitness and wellness, healthy living,how to relax, how to meditate, how to practice yoga, how to avoid diabetes.

Balancing Meditation .. A Guided Relaxation Exercise is a fine example by Marianne Laug, who

says: The relaxation exercise Balancing Meditation guides you through a sequence of minimal body movements. It utilizes conscious breathing and body awareness methods to enable a relaxed and meditative state of mind.
This relaxation exercise has its origin in the centuries-old Yoga tradition. Breath and Yoga Nidra
We turn the attention towards the breath and use abdominal breathing to calm the breath down and to make it deeper and easier. The breath plays a central role with all relaxation techniques, since conscious respiration is a wonderful method to release tensions.
specialists] in their own

field, many of them include examples of physical exercises to help reduce [tension

What authors have loaned their ears to audio books?

The list of audio books is endless and ever growing, but here’s a few notable names: Charles Dickens,, Tolstoy, Stephen King, James Patterson, Dale Carnegie, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bohorquez, Steve Majors.

Are audio books good value for money?
Well, they are certainly cheaper. And, they are available online, so you do not have to hop in your car and increase your carbon footprint.

There’s no paper involved in the production of audio books and so you are also saving some of the world’s rain forests. They are much lighter than books and will not cost you excess baggage charges on your next vacation And, as far as education is concerned, books on audio are the new way to read.

 

 

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