Whenever we have to pass by a Books On Tape section of a retail giant we get kind of weirded out by the selection. Dan Brown, Self Help, Self Help, Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, Self Help. Hey self helpers, step one to recovery is setting enough time aside to sit the fuck down and read a book. There are some uses, though. A friend of Seattlest's was so bored at an undemanding job up in B'ham that he took to feeding NYT and Harpers articles through a text-to-speech program and slapping them on his iPod so MSMary could read him the news while he did his busywork. We'd like to take this opportunity to point him to LibriVox. more ›