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An audio book has advantages over print media
Audio books have advantages over printed books. audio books on sd cards have advantages over audio books on cassettes and cd's.Technology now makes it possible to simplify the way we enjoy books ... for everyone, young and old alike (minimum skills required).
Audio books on cassette tapes have been available for years. People who "listen" to a book instantly realize the many advantages over printed media such as:
* The ability to listen while doing other activities such as driving, cooking, gardening, exercising, ...
* Listening to a book at night without lights
* Visually impaired can enjoy audio books without modifications
* Young children can listen to books before learning to read
* People with dyslexia can finally enjoy a book
* Audio books are more cost effective to produce
Audio books are now available on CD's as well as cassette tapes, but there are issues with both:
* High cost for the consumer
* Books are often on multiple cd's and tapes (requires changing cd's and keeping track of them)
* Both cd's and tapes take up much more space than an sd card
* Uses technology with moving parts (creates wear and tear on players and books)
With lower and lower costs for sd memory cards, entire audio books are now being sold on a single sd card. Audio books on sd cards using the popular mp3 file format, can be listened to on a wide variety of players. By using sd cards, books can easily be swapped in an MP3 player (without the need to learn how to transfer files). Even those who are not computer savvy can swap audio books on these mp3 players.
Listening to audio books on sd cards (the easy way with EZBooks) can not only provide entertainment while doing other activities (driving, walking, hiking, kayaking, gardening, knitting, exercising, ...) - audio books on sd cards can actually improve life for visually impaired people or suffering from other challenges.
One of the co-founders of EZ2Listen2 LLC has suffered her entire life from dyslexia. Audio books on sd cards have given her an easy way to catch up on books she has never been able to read. Take a look at her blog. Audio books bring hope to many who cannot read and putting an entire book on a single card makes it EASY.
In addition to making it easier to change books, using a standard mp3 file format opens the way to shop around for the best MP3 player or for an inexpensive player. Selecting a table top player would allow audio books to be shared by a group of people in something like an audio book club. There are many ways and many players available for audio books using an mp3 file format.
Thanks to the hard work of volunteers at Librivox.org there are over one thousand audio books freely available for downloading (in standard mp3 file formats). All of these audio books are read by human readers (not computers).
Unfortunately many people are not able to download these books. They may not have access to the internet, or may be intimidated by the technology. Others have technical issues trying to unzip and transfer files to a player or to an sd card. These difficulties are overcome by companies now offering public domain audio books on sd cards.
One problem with listening to audio books in an mp3 format is from book marking (or the lack of book marking). Some mp3 players have the ability to book mark, but the technology is often difficult to use, if it exists at all. Book marking is important because without it a person could be listening to a 45 minute chapter in a book and 30 minutes into the book take a phone call which would cause the mp3 player to shut itself off. Without book marking the person would have to re-listen to the entire chapter.
There is a solution. With ATSP technology (used by EZBooks at EasyToListenTo.com) the need for book marking is eliminated. This allows a person to use even the most inexpensive player (some can be found for less than $20) to play to an audio book and enjoy the experience, even if the player does not support book marking.
Technology does not have to be complicated. Everyone can now enjoy listening to a classic book on an sd card without knowing anything about computers or how to transfer files. From people in assisted living facilities to young people wanting to hear a bed time story, audio books on sd cards are providing an easy way for technology to improve our quality of life.
Remember all of those books you've always said you wanted to read some day? Now you can, with today's easy to use technology. A simple idea like putting an entire audio book on an sd card is one way catch up on your reading list. Let someone else read to you. Just sit back, push a button, and enjoy a classic like "The Secret Garden" - with your eyes closed!.
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