Work entertainment

[RetainerDesigner]

What You guys, and girls, listen to while you work?
Radio, Music collection, Xm, Audiobooks, TV?

I probably should start a poll...

Me personally, I am a huge fan of audiobooks. Its like a movie playing in your head and you don't have to take your eyes off your work. I have close to 300 audiobooks in my collection. BTW, here is where you get them - audible.com | Download books, magazines, newspapers and radio shows I belive you get an free audiobook for signing up.
I also listen to Podcasts, internet radio, and my music collection. Plus a movie every once in a while. So iTunes is pretty much my life while I'm in the lab. The lab is sometimes a solitary place, i figure you guys have a way to pass the time. Besides being on this forum, of course

[trisha]

I listen to Dave Ramsey between 11-2 on the weekdays.
NPR all weekend long. Also Bob Brinker on Sat & Sun. 3-6. NO TV on the weekends.
The weekdays I keep the TV on in the background usually court stuff.

[Brian8]

Myself,

I love Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, audio books, movies, and occasionally music.


Currently I am listening to Stephen Kings book series the Dark Towers which I highly recommend.

Brian

[RetainerDesigner]

Originally Posted by Brian8

Currently I am listening to Stephen Kings book series the Dark Towers which I highly recommend.

I LOVE THOSE! This series and the Left Behind series are my favorites. Some of Stephen Kings best work, in my opinion.
Which book are you on? So I dont give any spoilers...
I have revisited this series many times.

Cade
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[Brian8]

I have just started book 7, I took a break between book 4 and 5 because the narrator was different and not as good.

I have a question about the website you mentioned, do you pay per book or per month?

Brian

[labdude]

I listen to most everything you guys do. When I lay on acrylic or do grinding, it gets loud with all the machinery going. Then it is usually loud rock and roll. XM 40, 46, and 49.
Watch the classifieds for books on tape for sale cheap!!

[TheLabGuy]

I listen to Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, mixed in with some music from time to time, but never miss Neal Boortz. Great question

[RetainerDesigner]

Originally Posted by Brian8

I have a question about the website you mentioned, do you pay per book or per month?

You can do both.
Personally, I pay monthly. I pay something like 14.95 a month and I get one audiobook credit to use to 99% of all books on their site. THis is a great deal because if you look at the site some books are over 50 dollars so they really only cost you 14.95. I used to get the 22 / month plan and you get 2 audiobooks a month. The best thing is you keep the books even if you cancel the subscription you will always have access to your collection. You also get 30% off any al a carte purchase if you are a member. Look around sometimes they give away a free MP3 player with a 1 year subscription.
THe best thing is the way it works with my iPod. If I am listening to a book on my computer and have to stop it to go deliver. I just pause the book sync my ipod, take it to my car, plug the ipod in the tape desk in my car and start at the exact place i left off. I believe it is called bookmarking. You cant do this with CD/s if you eject your CD you loose your place. Most audiobooks on audible.com have chapter markers too. Anyway if they ask for a name who refered you, use cadenine, you might get another discount, i dont know if they do that anymore or not.

I agree with you on the narrators. Frank Muller was my favorite, George Guidall does a good job but just isn't Frank. The good thing is George has an older voice which goes along with the Gunslinger getting older as the story progresses. I believe George started the series with "The Gunslinger" Then Frank Muller took over from 2-4 then he had a motorcycle accident and lost his ability to speak! He wasn't even able to finish my other favorite series "Left Behind"
I also suggest " The Talisman" and then its sequel "The Black House" also narrated by Frank Muller YOu will see many correlations to "The Dark Tower" in it. It seems to stand in the middle of all his books.

Look at the turtle of enormous girth on his shell he holds the earth.
Cade

[Travis]

Sirius is on 24/7

I listen to Classic rock, Elvis, Bruce Springstein channel, 90s alt, octane, Sean Hannity, football Sundays and a few others.

[JEmirzian]

I installed 2 pairs of Preference ceiling speakers and custom built two sub woofers for music in the lab. I run everything though an Integra receiver that is hooked up to my computer. Between the 130 gigs of MP3's and AOL radio music sounds great for Katrina and I! As for the genre...we listen to everything. But not talk radio.

[RetainerDesigner]

Originally Posted by JEmirzian

I installed 2 pairs of Preference ceiling speakers and custom built two sub woofers for music in the lab. I run everything though an Integra receiver that is hooked up to my computer. Between the 130 gigs of MP3's and AOL radio music sounds great for Katrina and I! As for the genre...we listen to everything. But not talk radio.

IMPRESSIVE! Both the Speakers and the 130 gigs of music!
I keep my collection to a trim 30 gigs so that it will fit on my ipod. I have to trim the audiobooks most of the time(only keep the current one in the libary, good thing audible has free online storage, b/c those are big files.

Cade

[JEmirzian]

I never thought of the audio books......Thats a great idea!!

[Brian8]

RetainerDesigner,

Another good book is the Count of Monte Cristo. Blows the movie out of the water!!

Brian

[RetainerDesigner]

Originally Posted by Brian8

Another good book is the Count of Monte Cristo. Blows the movie out of the water!!

I will definitely check into that one, I'm always looking for recommendations. I am already looking for my next book when I get my next credit at audible.com on the 22nd. I almost never get a book with a rating of less than 3 stars.
Most books are way better that the movie...just finished "I Am Legend" it looks nothing like the previews for the movie.

Hey, we should start a Dental lab book club, we would blow Oprah's "out of the water"!

Cade

[RetainerDesigner]

Originally Posted by JEmirzian

I never thought of the audio books......Thats a great idea!!

I dont know how I ever got along without them. THis would be great for you and your wife. I just got my wife addicted to them. We have been listening to "Odd Thomas" by Dean Koonz on our travels to and from family functions. It makes the trips go by faster. Makes long deliveries go by in a flash, and make sitting at the lab bench more enjoyable.
In fact in lab school, I brought in an audiobook, "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King. Hooked my iPod up to an FM transmitter, and let anyone in the lab (there were 24 of us) with a radio tune into the audiobook, it was a huge hit. There would be a sigh of discourse every time I had to pause it so I could put my crown in the oven.

[Brian8]

RetainerDesigner,

I have to agree that the book sounds nothing like the movie...but the movie still looks good.

I think this is the start of the book club... it has to be audio though I rarely have time to read anything.

Brian