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Free Audio Content for Long Drives?

Posted by Cliff on from the pleasant-diversions-for-the-ears dept.

goatbar asks: "We are going to be driving across the country at the end of the week to a new job and wondered if there are good sources for free books/stories on tape that we could put on our iPod to make the long hours of freeway driving go much faster. What are your favorite stories for the road and where are good places to pickup content? Old radio shows, mysteries, etc are all good!"

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  1. free audio... driving... hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you could find some way of sending frequency modulated radio signals from some central location to a reciever in your motor-car, that might be a solution...

    1. Re:free audio... driving... hmm... by kisielk · · Score: 3, Funny

      I've also heard rumors that amplitude modulated radio signals could be used for the same purpose! Possibly even travelling greater distances.. alas, only a rumor.

    2. Re:free audio... driving... hmm... by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

      The elders in my village also say that there used to be great houses of knowledge in many a town and city throughout the land, where one could delve through collected text and audio works available to one and all.

      They called it a "library".

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  2. Re:Listen to the radio... by setzman · · Score: 1, Funny
    ... as you drive through rural America. Nothing like "You're going to HELL if you don't turn to JEE-ZUZ!" blasting over the entire AM dial.

    Just the AM dial? Please, you obviously haven't been through rural America or else you'd know that you'd get pretty much the same thing over the FM dial.

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  3. Re:Talk Radio by over_exposed · · Score: 2, Funny

    NASCAR radio?

    The Tampax car, #7 is taking a hard left followed closely by the Jack Daniels #16. The race is between these two cars folks. Tampax takes another left into the straight-away! J.D. is right on his tail pipes. They speed into the straight-away and OH! There's another wild left-turn! Oh the insanity! Another high-speed straight-away! Jack Daniels #16 makes a move but the #7 Tampax car cuts him off at the pass AS HE GOES INTO A LEFT TURN! Oh my GOLLY GOSH this is exciting! Looks like J.D. is taking the inside of the turn hoping to squeeeeze past Tampax -- boy I'll bet that's hard. Not much gets past Tampax these days! Woo! Looks like ol' Jack finally made it and Tampax floors it to regain first position! Oh What's this! Looks like the Tampax #7 is leaking fluid! Oh the horror! #7 is losing speed as it sprays fluid all over the track. The yellow flag comes out as the rest of the pack BLOWS right by #7.

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