Reading Books whilst on the road

Try using op shops or book exchanges. Some Libaries will let you borrow if you give them the caravan park as an address or leave a bond for the books, many won't let you borrow though and was one of our biggest frustrations when travelling with kids. Some caravan parks leave books in the laundry you can swap to read and some even have books to borrow.

Josh

We are currently at IslandView C/P Kinka Beach Qld (a must). In the laundry they have a book shelf with a notice on please replace with book of same size. I have come across this many times.
Cheers
Sharon

Readers Digest short stories abound in the country OP shops 50c each.

Many other books as well generally older but very varied subjetcs

supports the locals in a small way and you load up, read em and off load em

simple to me

Many small country towns have second hand book shops, you can usually pick things up fairly cheaply at those places.

On each trip, I usually take a few books from home that I've wanted to read for so long but never had the time. I get home and take them out of the car for the first time on the trip because I've had such a great trip that I didn't have much time to sit around reading!!

Hi 02 MURRY

Try Audio Books you can down load them off the I net or get them from book shops, all you need is a cd player or i pod,listen to them wile you are driving along, give you more time to play while you are stopped. Audio books will go in length from 2hrs to 17 hrs.
Regards
Paintar

Have you looked at a Kimble? Featured on the opening page of http://www.amazon.com/

One of the guys at work bought one just yesterday. Fantastic. Not hard on the eyes at all as the screen is not backlit. Holds something like 1,500 books that can be downloaded via free NextG connection.

I know I will be looking at one myself soon. He got a nice leather cover for it and it looks just like a book. Easier than carrying around a library of books with you.

Our local library loaned us several talking books and extended them to three months while we were away on a phone call.

If you have an Ipod you can download the Cds into Itunes and then onto a (big) ipod. 8 gigs will not fit many novels.

We only had a 10 stacker and still it saved a lot of space.

If the audio book is a compressed disc then you can again download to itunes and convert to normal discs.
Our objective was to fill in the long desert driving days and the audio books were great .
Regards Philip A

My 5" GPS has e-book capability along with MP3 , 4 and 5 - Just need a bigger memory card with e-books on it ..

Cheers

Steve

My wife uses her iPhone with ebooks. Was not sure about it at first but there is a handy little app that allows you to flick pages similar to a real book. I just use my laptop. Not as easy to read but works.

There are thousands of free ebooks on the web and many more pay for books that are very cheap.

Getting auio books from your library and transferring them in mp3 format toan mp3 player works fine as many posts have noted, but it takes up lots of space, as many have noted. If you subscribe to Audio Books (costs about $17.00 oz per book, the format they use seems to be more compressed and files seem to take up less room and are more manageable. This lets you choose the books you want. Generally however I have found op shops and book exchanges and swapping books with other travellers works just fine

Hi Murray
We just finished a big trip, we found alot of people who like reading. Most are eager to swap books as they go. just take 6 or so books and I am sure you will find someone to swap with.

Have a great trip
Wato

The Rooster is an avid reader, and stops at second hand bookshops. We found one with very cheap books in the main street of Tenterfield NSW, and at Gloucester came across a community fund raiser book sale in a community hall with lots and lots of books (probably mostly ex library).

Last year we came upon a trailer which was a mobile book store when on the road in NW of WA. You call them on UHF and they stop at the next rest area. All quality books in as new condition, well set out and displayed. The trailer was towed behind their motor home, so they tour and do business. What a good idea.

As said, lots of caravan parks have a book exchange shelf in the laundry. The lovely CP at Ilfracombe near Longreach has a book exchange in the office with a small fee which raises funds for the local P&C.

Happy travelling and reading.

Motherhen

gutenburg project (google) has thousands of out of print books that are worth reading. free. there are many explorer stories so you can get a feel for the history of the country you will be travelling,

owen

Another site to try...http://freeread.com.au/
Before heading off, or while online choose titles... go to 'flile' > 'print' > 'save as PDF' and read at your leisure off line...
Cheers JJ

On our 6mth trip in 08 we found that a lot of c/parks have a book swap shelf in either the laundry or in the shop ,in some smaller towns even the library will swap your books .EI you "donate " your books to the library and then the library " gives" you other books that have been "donated".