{"id":718,"date":"2009-06-10T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/10\/audiobooks\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T11:46:43","slug":"audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/10\/audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drive about 10 hours a week to and from work. I also do about 4 hours in the gym during the week. The gym is the crux of the problem. Sometimes I find while running on the treadmill that I get bored and start clock watching, and when that happens every minute seems to take about 10 minutes to get through.<\/p>\n<p>While I was working at IBM I decided to try and fill my driving time with<br \/>\naudio books. I tested <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mort\" title=\"Mort\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mort\" rel=\"tag\">Mort<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"On Chesil Beach\" title=\"On Chesil Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On%20Chesil%20Beach\" rel=\"tag\">On Chesil Beach<\/a>  &#8211; one that I had previously read and one that I hadn&#8217;t. Anyway it went well, I found I could drive and take in the story without problem, the only issue was that as I was using my iPod Touch I didn&#8217;t like driving while wearing earphones.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the gym I bought some new audiobooks. I found that it so helps with the concentration. I can focus on the book and go through the motions of the gym work without any issue at all.<\/p>\n<p>With the new found success of audiobooks at the gym and decided to by a FM Transmitter for my iPhone which allows me to listen to the iPhone through my car stereo and also use the <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=gafw.dlff.chattenundleutefinden\"><font color=\"#555555\">chatten key kombinations<\/font><\/a> app. This combined with the gym, means that I can now listen to books for an extra 14 hours a week! I can *read* a decent size book ( 500 pages ) in about 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have listened to <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Coraline\" title=\"Coraline\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coraline\" rel=\"tag\">Coraline<\/a> by <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Gaiman\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Gaiman\" rel=\"tag\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Stephenie Meyer\" title=\"Stephenie Meyer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephenie%20Meyer\" rel=\"tag\">Stephenie Meyer<\/a>&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Twilight\" title=\"Twilight\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twilight\" rel=\"tag\">Twilight<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"New Moon\" title=\"New Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New%20Moon\" rel=\"tag\">New Moon<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Eclipse\" title=\"Eclipse\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eclipse\" rel=\"tag\">Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mort\" title=\"Mort\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mort\" rel=\"tag\" >Mort<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"On Chesil Beach\" title=\"On Chesil Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/On%20Chesil%20Beach\" rel=\"tag\" >On Chesil Beach<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Coraline\" title=\"Coraline\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Coraline\" rel=\"tag\" >Coraline<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Gaiman\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Neil%20Gaiman\" rel=\"tag\" >Neil Gaiman<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Stephenie Meyer\" title=\"Stephenie Meyer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Stephenie%20Meyer\" rel=\"tag\" >Stephenie Meyer<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Twilight\" title=\"Twilight\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Twilight\" rel=\"tag\" >Twilight<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"New Moon\" title=\"New Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/New%20Moon\" rel=\"tag\" >New Moon<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Eclipse\" title=\"Eclipse\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Eclipse\" rel=\"tag\" >Eclipse<\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mort\" title=\"Mort\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mort\">Mort<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"On Chesil Beach\" title=\"On Chesil Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On%20Chesil%20Beach\">On Chesil Beach<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Coraline\" title=\"Coraline\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coraline\">Coraline<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Gaiman\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Stephenie Meyer\" title=\"Stephenie Meyer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephenie%20Meyer\">Stephenie Meyer<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Twilight\" title=\"Twilight\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twilight\">Twilight<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"New Moon\" title=\"New Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New%20Moon\">New Moon<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Eclipse\" title=\"Eclipse\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eclipse\">Eclipse<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drive about 10 hours a week to and from work. I also do about 4 hours in the gym during the week. The gym is the crux of the problem. Sometimes I find while running on the treadmill that I get bored and start clock watching, and when that happens every minute seems to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/10\/audiobooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audiobooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[129,14,31,67,8,11],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-car","category-ipod","category-reading","category-technology","tag-audiobooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}