I listen to audiobooks very frequently these days for 2 reasons - my eyes are too tired to read a page after a day of work at my computer and I also listen while driving, something I've done for 20 years. My standard for the quality of the reader has increased hugely in recent years since Jim Dale reading the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman reading narration of his own work (dramatized but done so well). I can recall listening to audiotapes that required changing the balance on the speakers in my car in order to hear the whole book as there were 2 recordings on each side of the tape. It used to be tricky work! Now I just download from Audible.com to my Ipod and my biggest complaint is that many of the books I'd love to listen to are not available - or the reader for the USA licensed version is so bad. Often there are versions available to UK Audible.com that sound great but are not available to download to the US.