Audible

This discovery originated during my quest to entertain my exceptionally motion sickness prone son during long trips. Even when he is loaded up on medication, he ends up being sick more often than not, therefore reading or watching a movie are entirely out of the question. Then I thought, I wonder if there is some new awesome versions of audiobooks that he could listen to on his iPod? After a foray through several underwhelming sites and apps, I came across www.audible.com, and WOW!

Audible has a vast library, from the old to the new, and a great selection for kids of all ages as well. They are owned and operated by amazon, and all you need is an amazon account to sign in and use it, and you're set! You pay a monthly rate to accumulate credits, and you can purchase the books for download either using these credits (1 book generally costs 1 credit), or you can pay for it.

For our most recent car ride to NYC I got him Catching Fire (the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy), and this one book provided 12 hours of listening enjoyment (there and back)! Truly outstanding.

My little guy is thrilled, and to me that is priceless :)