Freedom Racing

I think that it is really neat that you can actually find downloadable audio books. You can download all kinds of other CDs so why not? My grandma loves listening to audio books because her eyes are not as good as they used to be for reading, so she still gets the enjoyment of reading without really having to read. I told her that I would buy her a couple downloads and put them on an MP3 player for her.

I think that hardback books are getting a little too expensive. Reading is becoming a lost pastime probably because it is expensive to buy a new release in hardcover. I usually wait for a book to come out in paperback so that it is not like 30 dollars or more. I often buy used books online because they are so much cheaper than anything else.

I am so disgusted. Barnes & Noble has announced that they will carry the O. J. Simpson “hypothetical” confessional book If I Did It in their brick-and-mortar stores after all. Originally, they were only going to offer Simpson’s book online, and I thought that was bad enough. It’s a crappy thing when a business wants to make a profit off of a murderer’s confession.

A woman in New York returned an overdue library book to the New York County library. It was a book her mother had checked out, and then her mom died before she returned the book. When the daughter returned the book, the librarian told her she owned a fine of fifty cents - even though she had told him that her mother was DEAD. She paid the fine, but was - understandably - pissed.