Maybe I’m A Fossil

I just can’t do books any other way than hold­ing bound paper in my hands. I’ve tried audio books, for­tu­nately I didn’t buy any, only to be dis­ap­pointed, but I’ve sam­pled some free choices from the cor­ners of the web (Lib­riVox, LearnOut­Loud, etc.) and it is just not for me. I can barely pay atten­tion sit­ting, lis­ten­ing in front of the PC, let alone try and lis­ten while dri­ving. Another rea­son is I haven’t found a voice I enjoy lis­ten­ing to.

A cou­ple times in the last week my daily dose of SciFi site directed me to some free elec­tronic books, one was Suvudu Free Book Library with pdf files that look like a scan of a book (other for­mats are avail­able) and today’s site was Baen Free Library which has been around since 2002 and offers down­loads in var­i­ous for­mats includ­ing HTML. So far none of the for­mats I’ve tried have been com­fort­able to me. The sec­ond place offers books in a Microsoft Reader for­mat, but I’m not sure I even want to install the soft­ware for it.

Guess I’m going to keep patron­iz­ing the local used book store…