Last weekend Clansi and I drove down to Geelong for a Conference on Science and Christianity, and my clever wife had the idea that an audio book might be a fun way to stay entertained in the car. She found a recently produced recording of “The Horse and His Boy” at the library, and it really was a fantastic way to enjoy the hours of driving.

I have never fully enjoyed listening to music while travelling in cars, because my brain ends up fighting to differentiate between the road noise and the recording. Speech, I have found, is much simpler to detect and thus more enjoyable while on the road. Having a flow of words to interpret also helps keep the brain active, which I strongly suspect diminishes the dangers of fatigue.

My recent “discovery” of audio books led me on a search to find whether this medium has been liberated by Free Culture, Read the rest of this entry »