On phone with wired earphone.
Because I am too poor to buy tape or walkman, or even buy the audiobook.
I ride the high sea with my shitty android phone on a cheap no brand China headphone
Never did it on a walkman, but when I was a kid I was taken on a few multi-day road trips where they’d throw an audiobook on.
Just one. I listened to an audiobook version of Fatherland narrated by Werner Klemperer, the actor who played Colonel Klink in the Hogan’s Heroes TV show. So weird listening to him do the female characters.
My truck only has AM/FM and cassette. I still have some of my Weird Al tapes in there for when I’m driving it a lot.
You know they make adapters that can connect with an aux cord or Bluetooth right?
They’re pretty neat and last time I needed one like 3-4 years ago Walmart had them for like $5.
Not ragging your choices, just looking for my 1/10000
I actually still use one of these. A new stereo is too expensive when the tape works fine. I can’t imagine that I’d notice the difference since the car’s noise dampening isn’t very good.
They have cigarette lighter chargers with Bluetooth.
What do you do with Bluetooth on a cigarette lighter charger?
Listen to podcasts from a phone? Music?
Oh, it has a speaker built into it?
Yeah, I had one and it burned out years ago. I rarely drive that truck, so it’s pretty low priority.
Sure, lots. Mostly audiobooks for road trips or commutes. I even had a genuine Sony Walkman.
I remember having the Batman Forever and Batman Knightfall audio books on cassette back when I was a kid.
I listened to them so many times the voice and cadence of the narrator is permanently burned into my subconscious. I still quote them from time to time without really thinking about it.
When I was really young I’d check out audiobooks from the library, but I preferred reading books over listening to them. My grandparents loved audiobooks though. They had a cottage in Michigan they’d go to every summer, and they’d listen to them during the trip up there and back.
As a teenager, I would record the audio from movies onto cassettes, then listen to them on long bike rides. Damn near wore out MASH and Coming to America.
I had a few comedy albums. Some of them like Monty Python had a mix of music and skits. I wasn’t super into audiobooks. Probably the longest thing I ever listened to was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in its (original?) BBC Radio rendition.
The hitchhikers’ radio series on cassette started my love of audiobooks. I listened to it dozens of times as a teen. Went to sleep listening to it.
We didn’t have money for Sony, but I listened to countless hours of audiobooks, standup, and I’m sure other stuff on my (probably Daewoo) portable cassette player.
And for some reason this sparked the memory of having one of these as a kid. It took forever to come up with the search terms to find it.
I had a whole big bird I could put cassettes in:
As a kid I had the Dinotopia audiodrama tapes and my family would get old radio shows like Jack Benny from the CrackerBarrel store on road trips.
I need need need need neeeeeed the magnus archives on tape holy shit i didnt know how much i needed that
The idea of an audio drama on cassette never occured to me
I did in the late 90s early 2000s. Now I do it through my phone when cooking or commuting to the office.
Borrowed audio books on cassette from the library for long drives. You’d have the book thing open on the passenger seat for easily switching to the next tape. Never could afford to buy them outright.
I listened to „chasperli“ in the mid-late 00s
I actually won a walkman. Second prize in a rap contest. Well, I wrote the rap. I didn’t have to perform the rap. Oh no no you would not want that.
Anyway, I want to say I listened to the Hitchhikers Guide radio plays on mine.
