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Hello again

Have you ever tried reading a book whilst doing the ironing?  (Bear with me on this one... there is a point, honestly!)  It's OK until you get to a really interesting bit and find yourself concentrating so much on the words in front of you that you forget that you have an iron in your hand and... you can see where I'm going with this, can't you?    Anyway, wouldn't it be much easier if someone could read the book aloud to you - that way you could still listen to the story and concentrate on what you were doing, like the ironing, cooking, driving the car etc.  But there isn't always someone there who's willing to read to you is there?  In fact it would be much easier if the book could be recorded somehow onto a CD or MP3 so you could just listen to it when and where you want.  And then you could borrow different recordings from your local library, a bit like you do with printed books. 

And do you know what...?  You can!

Yes, I know, that was a very complicated way of saying that you can borrow talking books from your local library.  You can listen to them while you're cleaning the house, on a long journey, doing the gardening, in fact wherever you want.  They are available on CD from your local library right now and very soon we will even have some on individual MP3 players (I'll update you more on those when we get them).

Why not give one a try?

Suzanne