Podiobooks

Not sure how many of you elderly guys and gals are podcast fans, but I’m hooked on them.  The radio reception sucks at my office, and I like listening to talk radio, so the podcast thing is a pretty good substitute.  I usually listen to half a dozen or so pretty regularly, Diggnation (video podcast), TWIT, Preston and Steve (local Philly radio guys – they drop the music and commercials out of their radio show and release the rest, very VERY funny), Ask a Ninja (video podcast), and of course, 2old2type (whenever they actually release a new one).

I recently found something new in the podcast world, “podiobooks”.  Think of a book on tape/CD.  Now, imagine that the author himself reads it to you, and instead of releasing the entire book at once, he/she releases a chapter a week, episodically, like a podcast.  I’ve been listening to “The Rookie” by Scott Sigler.  It’s a combination of sci-fi and sports, football in the future, aliens and humans playing together.  Sounds cheesy, but it’s pretty good.  The production quality is excellent, and the story is very well developed and well written.  Sigler has a few other podiopooks, “Ancestor” and “Earthcore”.

If you like listening to audiobooks, try these out.  They’re free, and you don’t need an iPod or iTunes to listen to a podcast, they’re recorded as mp3’s, so all you need is a media player.  If anyone wants any help getting started, just send me a PM, I’d be happy to help.