Audible Books and iPods

My Unschooled daughters and I have become enamored with audio books. On a recent trip, we knew we had to finish listening to the last Harry Potter book (our consensus is that it is the best one of the bunch). Thus, we started looking into MP3 players.

Our criteria were (1) SUPER SMALL and (2) easy to use. Thus, the purchase of our iPod Shuffle version 2. We started with only two and now have three. These have become excellent purchases and we're zipping through books as we go about our daily lives. It is wonderful to be doing the dishes while listening to a book! I'd so frequently had to put my book down in order to do laundry. Not now. :) With the iPods, the best source of instant audio books out there is by far Audible.com. (Thanks to my friend, Andrew, for that recommendation). Not only is their product easy to understand and use, but their customer support is excellent. I highly recommend them, despite the fact that they won't allow Do Life Right, Inc. to be an affiliate of theirs.

Audible books, music, television shows, and movies can also be purchased through iTunes (an excellent free program). I've tried all of the above and found them to work superbly. The downloading process is simple and easy. Amazon's Unbox, however, still needs some work before I can recommend them. I struggled with attempting to download a video for weeks before I finally asked them for a refund (which they quickly did).