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Audio Books Are Available From Top Publishers

Have you ever wanted to get hold of the latest book released by your favourite author, only to find that it’s going to take a while to dispatch or your local bookstore has sold out? Well there is a solution available – download an audio book available from top publishers and then listen to it in the comfort of your own home or while you are on the move. This saves you time waiting around for a physical copy of the book you want to arrive in the mail. Audio books are available according to taste, such as horror titles by Steven King to learning a new language like Spanish. It’s a great way to learn new things or relax while you are on the way to work, or doing another activity.

What Are Audio Books?

Audio books are downloadable spoken word audio content titles by authors that can be burnt onto CD and downloaded onto your ipod or mp3 player. They are available in two formats: MP3 and WMA. These formats will play on PC’s, Macintosh machines and on many portable players. It helps if you have a high speed connection as you will be able to quickly download high quality audio files. There is also often opportunity to listen to samples of these books.

Listen To Audio Books On An Ipod or MP3 Player

It’s possible to listen to audio books on an ipod by burning the file you have downloaded to CD. This is also helpful as a backup which can then be put straight into iTunes and transferred onto your Ipod. Ipod audio books on the move are now a reality. Of course, you can also listen to them from CD or MP3 on your home audio system or in the car.

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Downloadable audio books (also called MP3 books) are timesaving, easily affordable, and portable. The flexible MP3 file format makes them useful in both entertaining and educating us when we are on-the-go. You probably already know it.

But did you know this?

You can save extra time when you listen to recorded-voice MP3 files by increasing the tempo of the MP3 file. And you can do it free to boot.

Why would you want to go the extra mile and speed up an MP3 file? If you are into listening to many MP3 voice recordings especially for education, cutting down on the time is takes to listen to them comes in handy.

Many advanced MP3 players have the options of varying the playback speed. But what if the choices change the tempo and pitch of the recording? You’ll hear a bunch of chipmunks as a result. And what about if you have a reliable MP3 player without the extra bells and whistles. Should you part with it and shell out some dough to buy a more advanced model? No worries. There’s a way around it.

In the following list of steps, learn how you can alter the playback speed of MP3 voice recordings without paying a dime for a new, fancy MP3 player, or … for anything else.

Here is the list of steps. Take a look:

1.
Download the MP3 file and store it on your PC’s hard drive. Remember the file’s location.

2.
If you already have the Audacity Program, great. If not, go to audacity.sourceforge.net and download it from there. Follow the downloading and installation instructions.

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You will need LAME MP3 Encoder file on your computer. You can download it at audacity.sourceforge.net under the "Optional Downloads". The encoder file allows you to export MP3 files.

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Okay. You have your MP3 file, Audacity and the LAME MP3 Encoder file now ready to go. So, let’s …

5.
Open the Audacity program. In the menu bar, under File, choose Open. Browse your hard drive and find the MP3 file. Once you find the file, choose it and click the Open button. It may take a short while for the file to export and open in the Audacity program.

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Do you have the file open now? Excellent. Now, under Edit (left upper corner), choose Select … > All. Your action now selects the entire MP3 file.

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Under EFFECT (in the same menu bar as before) … choose "Change Tempo…" (about 5th one down the column). A new window opens. You can see a slider bar with a window showing 0.0 percentage change. That’s the spot to alter the MP3’s tempo without changing the pitch.

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Now, enter the percentage change you want and preview the playback. Usually, somewhere between 10 – 50% change does the trick. Start at 10% and go up. Preview the playback with every % change you make.

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When you are happy with the playback speed, click OK. The rewriting process takes a few moments. Once it’s finished, you’ll see the original MP3 file duration display shorter by the % change you’ve chosen.

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Now, click somewhere in the big gray rectangle below the new waveform of the MP3 file. Make sure this deselects any portions of the waveform.

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Got it? Good. Now, go to File (left upper corner menu bar again) and choose "Export As MP3". A new window opens and gives you the choices to name your new file and store it. Go ahead and do that. You can add the word "FAST" at the end of the file name to recognize it from the original file later.

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Almost done. Close Audacity now. If you want to keep the original file intact "as it were", click on "No" and Audacity closes.

13. Now, all you have to do is to download the "faster" MP3 file to your MP3 player and boogie down the road, so to speak. If you need help with transferring downloadable audio books, MP3 books, MP3 music or any MP3 voice recordings to your MP3 player.

You are done. Congratulations! Downloadable audio books on-the-go can go even faster. See, it’s easy to speed up MP3 books, teleconferences, or any other recorded voice in MP3 format.

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There is no doubt about it…

I am a book lover.

I love books and have been reading since I was a little baby. My parents made sure they instilled the love of books in me. Unlike my other mates throughout school who always had problems reading, I never had such problems.

Reading was fun to me. It was something I would do, not because I had to get good grades in school, but because I just loved to.

Like you would expect, I carried this love for books into my adulthood.

To tell you how serious this love is, I even met my wife in the library where I went to get a book I had heard so much about.

Now that I have kids I still read. My love for books is so great that I have instilled the same love into my kids too.

I used to make it a habit to read to my kids EVERY night before they went to bed, no matter how tired I am when I get home from my job.

I didn’t expect it to, but because I worked long hours at my job, I always got very tired while reading to my kids at night. In many occasions I have even fallen asleep before my kids right whilst I’m reading to them!

Deep within me I could see that there just wasn’t any way I could keep up with the habit of always reading to my kids each night… unless I found another job that would take up less of my time (but still pay me a good wage at the same time – impossible to find such a job, right?)

At that same time that I was thinking of that, I was promoted in my job. This then demanded my presence at the office one hour before everyone else, and – you won’t believe it – one hour AFTER everyone else had left the office.

Yikes, that’s the one hour I spent every morning reading a chapter on motivations and inspirations and one hour I spent reading to my kids after work – all going down the drain.

I was in a great dilemma about what to do. My wife suggested I give up reading to my kids at nights, and she would do it instead, but I just couldn’t let that happen since she had too much to do herself, and I didn’t want to add more responsibilities for her.

I was still battling for a way out when I discovered:

AUDIO BOOKS!

Eureka… the savior had arrived.

Six weeks after my first contact with audio books, my dilemma ha 1000 d ended.

Not only did I gain back my 2 hours taken by my job, I had added many more hours to my life because of audio books.

How?

First, I now get a 2 hour value of books every morning before I get to work.

During the 1 hour it usually takes me to prepare for work, I listen to an audio book.

During the 1 hour or so it takes me to commute to and from work, I listen to an audio book.

During the 1 hour or so I spend to have lunch and break times, I listen to an audio book.

Total time gained with audio books is 3 incredibly educative hours in the mornings and afternoons.

Now my job doesn’t have to take all of my time away from getting the value I get reading books.

Secondly, instead of spending the 1 hour reading to my kids each night when I get home tired, I played an audio book for them instead. Somehow I discovered that they seem to prefer the audio books to my reading.

I think I heard my daughter mumbling about how the voice from the audio book is "more awake than dad’s". This shows you how sleepy I got at certain nights while reading to my kids.

Now… aren’t audio books wonderful?

If you have had similar problems to mine, you can gain back your time by taking advantage of the amazing value of audio books.

The fact that most of the best-selling titles now come in audio book format make it far more interesting.

To get started, go online and visit my favorite audiobook store and search for the audio book version of that book you have been dying to read. Download it instantly to your computer and enjoy!

Even books that your kids or spouse love to read could be available in audio book format. If they are, they will be a great time saver for you too!

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