Listening To Audiobooks While You Do Something Else Is The Ultimate In Multitasking

As a child I spent every summer with my nose in a book. Each year I looked forward to summer library loans, which back then allowed you to keep books for several months – instead of a couple of weeks – at a time. With the help of neighborhood librarians, I would make my selections and cart home as many volumes as I could carry, delighting in their musty smell and smooth plastic protective covers. One year, when I sent my summer books ahead in my camp trunk, the counselor who unpacked it before my arrival remarked that she couldn’t believe that someone who wore such small clothes could be reading such big books. At the time I thought it was an insult.