I LOVE these! After hearing my first unabridged (audiobook version of the novelization of Star Wars Epsiode I), I'll never be able to go back to Abridged ever again!

Yeah, I...erm...hear you. My current job is heavily data-entry-oriented, so these audiobooks are a real blessing. Basically I just pop on the ol' headphones and presto! My fingers are typing 'register for LawNet seminar...' and my brain is off in Catherine Cookson country. Makes the day fly past.

So what's the longest book you've ever listened to, Brian? Thus far mine is the unabridged David Copperfield. Twenty-two tapes, two weeks, four battery-changes. At the end I was literally thinking in that ruddy Dickensian idiom. ("I say..." etc.)

Really, that's the only flaw in my aural ointment - these tapes are mostly practical, designed for sight-impaired listeners. So often the readers are there to do just that, read, not give a 'performance' a la the celebrities that do the higher-profile abridged versions.

This may be a dumb question, Kerrie, but - Are audio books available on Compact Disc? I have never seen them anywhere.

Oh, sure, Adam. My local library has quite a selection, and so did the bookstore I worked in. Check out the neighborhood Barnes & Noble or see if you can find a store that deals in audiobooks exclusively.