AtD: audio recommendation

[bekah]

I just typed this out for a private response but thought maybe 
someone else would be wondering.

The narrator of the audio version of AtD is Dick Hill and I was a bit 
put off his voice at first but I got used to him very quickly - 20 
minutes or so.   But  I'm like that with most new narrators.    I'm 
enjoying him quite a lot now and I think he's great for it.  He's 
done quite  a few readings of books but I've not heard of him before 
and I listen to books a lot.   Hill also narrates Paul Auster's 
Travels in the Scriptorium which was just released.

  I'm still in  Part I  (reading along with the group)   so he's got a 
bit of camp in there for the Chums,  but not too much.   I'm 
wondering how his  voice will change when he gets to the Traverse 
Webb parts. Anyway,  I'm enjoying it quite a lot.   He's clear and 
easy to listen to and not overly dramatic (which I don't care for).

I listen on my iPod and iTunes on the computer.   It's hard to listen 
on the iPod sometimes because you can't very easily just go back and 
check something; you end up going back a track which is usually about 
30 - 40 minutes.   I hate that,  so I also listen on the computer and 
that way I can get to where I want to and  I can check certain 
passages again.   (I do this with most books I listen to.)    I sync 
the iTunes and iPod when I need to really listening on one and then 
the other and so on.     Meanwhile,  I also have the book open next 
to me to check the passages I want to reread.    I  do this with only 
a very few books because I get either the book or the digital but 
with some books I have both and I *really* enjoy reading a book and 
listening at the same time.

I downloaded the book from  Audible.com and they "package" their 
books in downloads of about 6 - 8 hours each so the download time is 
not all at once.  I've downloaded 2 sections of the total 7.   Each 
download takes about 30 minutes on broadband.   The cost is quite 
reasonable but I got it on my subscription there but the cost is 
quite reasonable,  $25-30.    I don't know how iTunes does downloads 
but I know they're only available for iPods.    It probably comes in 
CDs, too.   Maybe even available at libraries.  The publisher is 
Tantor Media.

Anyway, I'm having a great time, listening and reading for the group 
reading.   It's my second reading because I just whipped through the 
hard cover edition in 4 days over the Thanksgiving holidays when it 
first came out.   I'm not having to get the whole story from the 
digital on the first time.  (That would be very hard.)   If you're 
the  situation of thinking about listening with reading or listening 
for a second reading,  I do recommend it.

Bekah