yo i love books but i especially love books in AUDIO format! it's often hard for me to find the time to Drop Everything And Read and so books that i'm reading in text-format often take me FOREVER to finish. i like audiobooks because i can listen to them bit-by-bit during the day while doing other things and also at night while i'm in bed, and i don't have to take time out of my day specifically to listen to them, like i would have to do if i were reading them. also i make a lot of art, and that is a time-consuming process which doesn't really require much mental attention-- i used to listen to music while working on art, but i've found that audiobooks are even better! recently, i've started listening to podcasts as well.
 
i've spent the past two years falling asleep to the 48-hour Complete Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes (BBC Dramatization) collection read by Clive Merrison (as Holmes) and Michael Williams (as Watson), and i just finished the entirety of the canon last night. (so now, with that finished, i feel a sense of loss... ;~;) i've also listened to free Librivox audiobooks of P.G. Wodehouse's short story collections The Man With Two Left Feet, And Other Stories as well as My Man Jeeves, and i do have the rest of the Wooster+Jeeves series downloaded and queued up for me to listen to in coming times. i've also listened to the Audible version of The Lost World (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) read by Paul Hecht. as for more modern books, i highly recommend the hilarious audiobooks The Areas of My Expertise written and read by John Hodgman (with frequent appearances by Jonathan Coulton), and The Great American Novel by comedian Keith Malley. my all-time favorite audiobook has to be Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, read by Jim Weiss-- i cannot recommend this audiobook enough; it is an amazing book and performance. soooo good 
 
i would recommend all the above audiobooks to others, and i can give a more in-depth review of any of them if anyone wants me to. i have many more audiobooks which i plan to listen to, as well, and i'm always looking for more. my biggest requirement for an audiobook is that it should be suitable for listening to, content-wise. generally, i wouldn't want to listen to translated books, old books (like, 1700s and earlier), or books of a very elevated reading level, because all of those are probably better suited to actual reading, since they might require some reference materials and extra thought. current books which i'm thinking would be good to listen to are The Stranger by Albert Camus, Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse, and anything by Mark Twain (for example, i've recently started listening to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court).
 
as for podcasts, i've only recently started to get into them. i like Freakonomics Radio and the HowStuffWorks podcast Stuff You Should Know. there's also a lot of others i want to listen to someday... i'm including podcasts in this topic because they're similar to audibooks-- they share the feature of being good for idle listening. and i know that some people are reaaallly into podcasts, and that there are some excellent productions out there.
 
if you have any recommendations and favorites in the areas of audiobooks and podcasts, or if you just want to write out your thoughts about something you're currently listening to, please talk about all of that here~ 

today i discovered via Vellfire about the podcast Keith and The Girl and also Chemda's (The Girl's) solo podcast What's My Name Show. imma listen to these sometime. also my gf tells me i should listen to Anime World Order and WARNING! A Huge Podcast is Approaching Fast! (because her and i are both gross anime otaku nerds looolll)

Ya KATG is really good even though there's a lot of problematic stuff in it that I deffo don't agree with (tho I feel like they've slowly gotten better about some things).  What's My Name is pretty dang good from what I've heard of it.  The only other podcasts I listen to are the Giant Bomb podcast which I'd say a lot of you are already familiar with and Mega64's video podcast which is incredibly fun to watch if you like the Mega64 crew as people, since it's mostly just about their lives not about video games or whatever.  Half the time they run out of time and don't even get around to talking about video games.