Talking book advice

[Barmaid]

I have to do some incredibly long journeys and am very bored of the same old same old radio. I tend to buy books on CD and listen to them. (Current genre is murders). I try and pick them up cheaply where I can but more often than not you end up paying anything between £12 and £15 which given that I can easily get through 2 a week is proving expensive.

A friend suggested that downloading them might be better. However, if I download them I am not sure if I would be able to put them on CD since presumably you have to split the file and put it on several CDs. Would an MP3 player or Ipod be better? How would that work in the car? ANd is there anywhere I can get them cheaper?

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

[bednobs]

the library :)

[bednobs]

i used to do this for my motorway journey to work. I can recommend wild swans. i don't recommend anything sad because you suddenly find you can't see!

[Barmaid]

Dohhhhhhh Bednobs. Sometimes I am hopelessly stupid. Excellent suggestion thank you. I'll check out what they've got at the weekend.

[NOX]

If you stick em on an ipod, or iphone or mp3 player then if you have a stereo in your car with an auxilliary jack point ( most do) you simply buy a double ended male cable and run it from your phone's headphone socket to the auxilliary and then select aux on your stero- that's what I do.

[Barmaid]

Don't think I've got a jack point Nox. But then I wouldn't know what it looked like if it jumped up and hit me.

[denis567]

The library suggestion is a good one. Our library will let you take out as many as 12 at a time, free of charge (not all libraries loan them free).
They always have a very good selection, both on CD's or tapes.

[Buenchico]

If your car radio doesn't have an accessory jack, you'll need one of these:
http://direct.asda.co...89244,default,pd.html
(Shown as 'Out of stock' online but I bought mine from an Asda store).

You simply plug it into your car's cigar lighter socket. Tune your car radio to a 'blank' frequency and then use the 'Up' and 'Down' buttons on the transmitter to match that frequency. Plug the cable into your MP3 player's socket and you'll hear its output through your car radio.
(You only have to do the tuning once. In future you can leave the transmitter frequency unchanged and store that frequency into one of your radio's memories).

Chris

[Ghengiskhan]

H appologies but something totally unrelated to this thread, you posted an answer to a question i posted which was absoltelt spot on and very helpful

Thanks