With the fast-paced life we’re living into, it’s sometimes hard to make time for simple pleasures like reading. Oftentimes we read the news on the side while surfing the net doing some work. While we’re stuck on traffic may be a great time to catch up on our reading or rehash Mark Twain’s great story through the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn audio book. This type of “reading” is becoming popular nowadays.

An audio book is a recording of the spoken word. The transition to book retailers carrying audio books became commonplace on bookshelves rather than in separate displays as book publishers entered the field of spoken-word publishing. This makes the content of regular books accessible to the blind or illiterate. And in some cases, people who like to multi-task do this: catching up with their audio books while exercising or driving.