The benefits of building an audio book library are very similar to those of building one for printed books. A library as defined by wikipedia is “a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.” For the most part we will be discussing the benefits of collecting audio books as a private individual. Books have been written and produced in spoken word for a variety of topics and therefore the mix of audio books will be different for everyone but why have one at all?
Simply answered the major benefit is having ready access to the information that you value the most. Whether this is your tribute to a specific author that you love or a business reference library to refresh yourself on what makes a great company. Your audio book library is the collection of books that you have enjoyed and treasure enough to know that you will either need them again or want the pleasure of hearing them again.
In many ways audio books [...]
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The Benefits Of Building An Audio Book Library
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You can only burn (or copy/write) a downloadable audio book to a CD if either it is for your own use, or you have copyright over the contents.
Any audio book purchased for your own entertainment or enjoyment is normally subject to copyright and cannot be copied other than for your own use. Violating this law can get you into serious copyright infringement problems and potentially subject to very substantial fines or even imprisonment.
Downloadable audio books are still under copyright, even after paying to download them.
The only instance where audio books (or other publications) are no longer under copyright is when the authors or translators have died over 70 years ago. There are also certain publications by government that are not under copyright.
The rule of “only for personal use” is however still ultimate when it comes to burning any downloadable audio book to CD or any other such formats.
There are even a small number of audio book publishers that won’t allow their audio books to be copied to CD. Audio book publishers can and sometimes do disable the ability to [...]
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Everyone seems to be busy and chasing after time that they never have a chance to sit down and literally read a book. The technology has done great wonders by providing audio books.
Now you don’t have to find the time to read a book after work.
Now you can have the books reading to you while you are on your way to work, when you fetch your kids to school. You can now enjoy someone reading the book to you. Isn’t that amazing?
With audio books, we also get to enjoy unique advantages of doing other things that take up our hands, but not our minds. We can now do other things like household chores, exercise, etc while still having the book read to us.
More people are embracing the wonders of audio books and are buying their favorite books in audio book version.
If you are considering buying an audio book, below are 6 of the great places you can enjoy an audio book:
1–In bed – There are certain days when we just don’t want to do anything but lie down in [...]
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It’s really amazing that you can get the exact value listening to an audio book while doing your normal chores as you would reading it.
Certain experts even say information sinks in more when we are not paying direct attention to them.
But when did this audio book phenomenon really start? In other words, what’s the history of audio books?
From all indications, audio books look like a very recent invention, right?
WRONG!
It is very easy to make the assumption that audio books are a recent invention because of the mention of CDs, downloadable digital formats, MP3s, PDAs and other technological jargons each time audio books are discussed. But audio books started a long time ago.
To know how long audio books have been, it is pertinent to understand exactly what audio books are.
Forget about any other jargon you have heard, audio books are simply books that are recorded to be heard, instead of read.
That being the case, such recordings of books in audio formats have been around for a very long time. If you want to be specific, it is safe to say they [...]
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The advent of the audio book happened over 35 years ago in the early 1970’s. Initially the most common place where you found audio books was at the public library. Usually you could listen to the book only at the library where they had the necessary tape playing equipment. At the beginning these recordings were often of only average quality but within a few years, due to the growing popularity, many publishers began to produce much higher quality audio books.
As most public and municipal libraries had only modest resources to buy these audio books their catalog of available titles were initially quite small. To satisfy the public’s growing appetite for audio books, a large number of rental groups began to spring up everywhere offering a much wider range of titles.
Audio book rentals are akin to audio book clubs, but they are able to offer customers unlimited access to literally thousands of different audio books. Customers are offered the option of having their audio book rental on either a CD or tape. They can then select from a range of [...]
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