Thursday, January 20, 2011

Entry 5 - Reading/Listening To Books While Commuting

My usual commute time going from my house to where I work usually takes around an hour and a half.  This is quite a long commute and I feel that I'm wasting that amount of time if I just sit and wait for my ride to arrive to the place I work.  Reading books while commuting is a no-no for me as I get dizzy from it.  I then decided to look for interesting podcasts I could listen to.  I stumbled upon TWiT, it's a panel type podcast that talks about technology news.  This is where I found out about Audible, a site where you can subscribe and be able to buy audio books.  This has been so useful to me, as I can now make productive use of my time while commuting.  Aside from that, it makes me feel that my commute time is shorter than the one and a half hour that it really is.  Just today, I finished reading The Fall, book two of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.  I really enjoyed the book and I can't wait for the third part.  I'm also listening to the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series, and I just downloaded the latest book entitled Vortex.  Audible is not a free service, but I feel that it's basically the same as buying a book, but now it's just in an audio format.

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