The most downloaded audiobook.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo topped the fiction audiobook list. There were many free downloads for this audiobook. Check out the other free titles.  You can get pretty much any audiobook you want from the traditional bestseller lists.  Here’s an example:

Zamora unshoulders his field pack and drops it at his feet.  A cloud of dust rises, and the pig scampers away.  “Did you hear me, old man”, he says, “we need food”.  His platoon likewise unburdens themselves and squats on haunches, rifle butts on the ground and muzzles pointed skyward.  Eyes hungry as well.  The few village children who had been playing in the heat of the late morning have disappeared silently.  But that does not surprise Zamora and his men, children find little comfort in their presence no matter where they go.  Lydia, like a Welcome Wagon gladhander, is alone to greet his guests.

Why read? Listen instead!

If reading the 1,018-page health care bill doesn’t appeal to voters and lawmakers, there’s an easier option: Listen to it — via free downloadable audio files of professional voice-over actors reading the bill aloud. All 24 hours’ worth of it.

“It’s not too painful to listen to,” said voice-over actor Diane Havens, the mind behind Hearthebill.org.

The site has dozens of audio files, created by more than 50 voice-over actors from around the world. With their sonorous voices, they read passages such as: “Paragraph Two, in such state in such year, Subsection E, Medicaid coverage for Medicaid eligible individuals, Paragraph One, in general.” That one in particular is spoken with rich, warm emphasis by John Zadikan, a Detroit-area voice-over professional who has worked for Kmart and AAA. Politico