I finished listening to the George Carlin book today. It was mostly the same experience as listening to one of his albums and in a few cases was the same material I first heard on albums. His delivery makes already funny stuff even funnier. I would definitely consider becoming an Audible customer, if only they had some way of hooking up their DRM crap to my iRiver SlimX. As it is, I'll be looking at BookEars or other places that sell audiobooks on MP3 CDs. It makes so much sense to me to do it this way, when you can put 10 or more hours of book on a single CD. Beats that tall stack of tapes with the bizarre "part 1 on the left channel, part 3 on the right" schemes to put more stuff on one tape.

While I'm talking audiobooks, I should mention the company founded by author Bruce Coville, Full Cast Audio. I don't actually know Mr. Coville but I do run in similar online SF circles (which is how I first learned about FCA - from his group on Dueling Modems.) He has a taste for similar films as I do, and seems like a good guy. What Full Cast Audio does is do big production versions of prose fiction. It's more like Seeing Ear Theater than an audiobook. He has a free sample, one of his stories up there, available for download or he'll even send you a tape for free. As best I can tell, all the material is the kind of young adult fiction he writes, which translates into fun for the whole family. Slap some of these babies on your Diamond Rio and plug it into the car stereo during long trips. I wish this kind of technology was available when I was a kid living in western Kansas, where any vacation involved driving at least 3 or 4 hours, 8 or 9 for the good ones.