Read a book outloud, record it on your PC, convert it to MP3 and synch it to your Walkman

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Do you like listening to audio books? If you are among the millions of others who like listening to a book being read to them while on the road, walking, or even exercising or on a long commute from point A to point B, you will enjoy doing it the easy way. First of all you have to have a computer microphone and a program that records your voice over a microphone. You can usually use a simple application in a Windows PC called Sound Recorder, and the microphone can either be a stand mic or a microphone and headphone combo. The main thing is, you must be willing to read form text books and be willing to spend a while at it. If you are a teacher or a student or just learning something new from a book, you can read it and record it on your PC as a sound file, then take the next step and convert the sound file from audio wave format to MP3 audio format. The reason for this is MP3 format is good for uploading or syncing to your mobile MP3 player. You can save a sound file on a removable thumb drive and keep it stored away. You can later go and take that thumb drive and put it in your mobile device using the usual USB port. The idea behind using a basic sound wave to MP3 converter is that it makes it possible to add to any MP3 mobile device so that you can play it back and by listening to your book you can be doing other things, but at the same time, make use of your time, learning something new. The first time you read a book out loud, it is hard if you have no previous experience. But I have news for you. It ain't that hard to do. Many people like myself, enjoy audio books on disc, or MP3 or audio cassette while driving a car or being a passenger on a plane or bus or cab. The time spent during a boring long trip is not wasted as you can make use of your idle time, listening to informative educational audio books. Here is a good list of audio books you can get that don't cost an arm and a leg that can be very helpful to add value to your idle hours on the go. It's good to know that apps that convert audio files, WAVE or .WAV - as they are also called. You can save space in your MP3 player by converting a sound file, a voice recording in .WAV format to listen to while on the go. I have done this myself. I also like to take a digital or micro cassette recorder with me when commuting on a bus from point A to point B. I talk into the recorder while standing at the bus stop waiting for it to arrive and take me to my point of destination. After I board the bus, I take a seat and listen to a playback of my ideas to help me with my article writing. Take a look at the article from the link below about audio books as the biggest new reading trend. from qz.com