“Call me a Luddite, I don’t care, reading a book, a REAL BOOK, is better than reading on a machine ( iPad and phone, or anything else that they may dream up ),”
Before a trip I can check out several books and albums and they are available on both my tablet and phone.
eBooks can be blue-toothed to my car system. Can you get your wife to read your book to you while you are cruising down the interstate?
If I want to hear a story, my spouse would read it to me. But driving needs concentration and I am NOT a big proponent of distractions, whilst driving.
Nor do I ever "listen" to books. I READ THEM!
As I said in another post, I own and have read books that are NOT available on any modern device and probably never shall be. Two, in particular, are extremely special, in that one is about the Court of Emperor Franz Joseph of Hungary. The first owner of that book, was a member of his Court and wrote in the book, refuting some of the parts of it and in other parts, wrote of her own observations re what was being described. The woman left the book to my great grandmother, which is how I have it.
The second book, which belonged to my mother, who bought it second hand, is a First Edition of W.S. Gilbert's BAB BALLADS". In the front of the books, the original owner had cut out and pasted into it, the obits, from many different newspaper, of Sir William's obits.
Lots of luck replicating this, in ANY way, using an eBook or whatever else there is! LOL
Also....when listening to a book ( which I haven't ever done and why I'm now asking this question ), what do they do about footnotes? Do they read them out loud, in the middle of a sentence, or what, when you listen to someone reading the book?
What about books that are from other countries? Can you get books that were written and printed in South Africa, the UK, etc.? What about long out of print books?