Does anyone know where I can get these cheap - I have looked at ebay but it drives me mad bidding and not knowing if I have won etc etc - it is all so technical for me!
I know this is a bit outside the normal equipment line - so my apologies
My girls are 8 and 9 and so a bit older stuff is what I am interested in – also not something that my hubbie will throw out of the car window
I like to put these on the car cd player on long journeys for us all to listen to – so it keeps everyone quiet!
I've rented books on tape at my local library for long trips and managed to pick up other tapes on Ebay cheaply - favourite is always Just William.
For both these and CDs you could always trawl your local charity shops and look out for them at school fayres where parents sometimes dump them as the kids get older.
If you have acess to DAB radio - you could try recording some of their kids stuff from BBC Radio 7 which is on from 3pm in the afternoon. Oneword also has kids broadcasting - not sure what time their stuff is though.
Tip with Ebay is to bid your maximum in the last minutes rather than do an early bid (unless you think you won't be around when it finishes) and set yourself a maximum that you are assured you won't go beyond!
Like I've stuck to that rule of thumb.............
If you keep going back to the auction and bidding against the same person, as can inevitably happen, you just end up pushing the price up beyond what it would have reached.
Going to have a look in my local bookshop as that is an excellent idea for keeping them happy on longer car journeys. What ever happened to those wonderful days when they would fall asleep on any journey longer than about 20 minutes.
I get audio CD's from the library. It is £1 for a week, but probably childrens titles would be free. I download them onto my Mac and from there to an iPod to play on holiday. My reading sight isn't so good nowadays and ordinary books make my eyes very tired and sore so these are a wonderful thing. I suppose you could always copy from the computer to a re write CD, then wipe it and re use for the next book if you are going to need it for more than a week. I don't believe it is breaching copyright if you download for your own personal use.
I have loads!!! cost me a fortune!! I travle a lot and always listen to audio books, I must put them on ebay, i probably have £500 worth at new price!!
I try to download them now as mp3's from various file sharing programs, then convert them to CD.
I have the entire chronicals of Narnia on CD, great for kids, and just as good for Big kids ;)
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Topic: Audio books on CD for kids
