New adventures in Hi-Fi

Well, maybe not new but what I mean is that I have bought, yes BOUGHT, an audio book of Great Expectations over the Internet. Its an unabridged version of the book read by Frederick Davidson, so the book takes 18 hours and 42 minutes to finish (I have reached chapter 23 of 59).

The experience of listening to an audio book has been great especially since the reader, tries to talk in different voices for each of the characters. I also felt that as Pip grows up as the book progresses, his voice changes from a high pitched tone to a more mature one. However I found that I had to have more concentration while listening than while reading a book.

The book was available in 59 DRM (Digital Rights Manager) protected WMA files, which were not compatible with my Sony mp3 player. However, since I had bought the book, I was able to contact the support team (it's nice when people listen to you if you pay for stuff) and they suggested I write audio CDs (it would take 12 CDs) and then rip them to mp3. Thankfully I didn't have to follow this painful process, but was able to create images of the CDs using Nero software and rip the virtual CDs to mp3.