| u ready for the next generation of the book? That is | | | | On the web site there was a testimonial about this |
| correct! It is available here and now. It is in your very | | | | fantasy book written by Paulo Coelho that says quote, |
| computer waiting for you to look at your desktop | | | | this is a wise and inspiring fable about the pilgrimage |
| monitor and a free sample of it from the very source | | | | that life should be, by M. Scott Peck,M.D. and author of |
| that it comes from. All you need to do to get started, | | | | The Road less Traveled. You think to yourself, |
| after doing due diligence, is to download it. | | | | perhaps this is a good book. |
| This mysterious but newly fascinating concept is the | | | | Paulo Coelho is an international best selling author |
| audio book. An audio book is a printed book that is | | | | whose books include The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, |
| transferred to splintered wire endings of your audible | | | | The Fifth Mountain and others. His publications have |
| website you visit while book shopping, and ultimately to | | | | sold more than thirty million copies in one hundred and |
| sound by a reader we will call, in this case, Jeremy | | | | twenty countries. They have also been translated into |
| Irons. | | | | forty seven languages. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| So, your eyes are not reading a book anymore | | | | There is not a hurry to listen to it so you can listen to |
| because your ears now pick up a new function of | | | | parts of the audio presentation in bites of fifteen or |
| reading the printed book by listening to Jeremy Irons. | | | | thirty minutes at a time. You can pick up where you |
| Let us take a typical case. Say you want to listen to a | | | | left off at any time. This fine audio book, storybook |
| book with your ears rather than read it with your | | | | can legally and ethically be burned onto a CD, |
| sleepy, tired eyes. No hands holding books or turning | | | | transferred directly into iTunes and then to your ipod, if |
| pages, no elbow leaning and mild back strain. | | | | you choose. |
| Amazingly, no reading light needed either. | | | | You will find this story to be about an Andalusian |
| You go to an audio book website and start shopping | | | | shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his |
| around. You put in the keyword Alchemist at the | | | | homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of |
| source box at the top of the page and, lo and behold, | | | | treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he |
| a storybook type audio book shows as being listed on | | | | meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself King, |
| the web site. | | | | and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the |
| The price will be less than a printed book because the | | | | direction of his quest. |
| same electrical impulses are stored on the computer | | | | No one knows what the treasure will be in the |
| file at far less cost. There is no shipping because the | | | | adventure of the storybook. The interesting part is |
| book is downloaded directly off of the web site. | | | | finding and learning about the Alchemist lurking in the |
| You listen to a five minute free snippet of the book | | | | audio book itself. |
| itself that is read to you by Jeremy Irons who will be | | | | This adventure journey turns into a meditation on the |
| your reader pal for the whole four hours and thirty | | | | treasures found within. The story of Santiago is an |
| minutes. The sample sounds interesting and | | | | eternal testament to the transforming power of our |
| contemplative to you and the price is right so you go | | | | dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts. |
| to a basket and purchase the audio book called | | | | Does this sound like your life quest at times? |
| Alchemist at a great price. | | | | Take some time each day to lay on the couch in the |
| You watch a video that shows you the simple | | | | living room or set in the shade outside with your family. |
| instructions to download the Alchemist lurking in the | | | | You can share this adventure together and share your |
| audio book on the web site. You can do this! You | | | | own views of it as you listen to each segment of it. |
| download the audible book to your desktop. | | | | It will take on individual meaning to each of you about |
| You can open it and play it at this point. If you have | | | | your individual life journeys. You will be fascinated with |
| good, strong speakers on your computer set up you | | | | the different impressions your family and friends have |
| can play the storybook and let Jeremy Irons be your | | | | of it as it pertains to themselves. |
| partner in the listening to this book. | | | | |