You read. You relished. You treasured them. Gave wings to your imagination. Travelled different worlds words took you to. You felt angst and anger, joy and sorrow, meetings and partings, death and birth of principal players these words described in delectable detail. Marvelled over dexterity of penmanship. Pushed to edge-of-the-seat, spine-chilling experience, as minute by minute nail-biting suspense wormed itself on you, while craftily written words worked up your fancy to the ghoulish game that was afoot.
Yes, you marked your favourite passages. Made footnotes. Thumbed through the tome time after time as and when you wanted to. Bookmarked pages to get back to later on as sleep overpowered you, or urgent work sought your attention. Those that you felt must find pride of place in your personal collections you bought them.
Well, these very treasure trove of books that regaled and you rejoiced in, beckon you yet again. This time though, they have all donned a brand new avatar. They will not be a strain on your eyes. Nor any nearby noises distract you from them. In fact, you can just shut your eyes, let yourself run riot picturing scenes as vividly as possible as wondrous world of words engulf you through the ears.
Yes, you got it. In keeping with demands of high paced lifestyles that we find ourselves in, our favourite tomes too thought befittingly to take the form such that they can be a part of you 24x7x365 should you desire.
All that these books require is a your CD player, earphones, and lo! and behold! with the blink of an eye and twitch of a play-button, your favourite authors works will now be speaking to you as their books have donned the audio form.
Spend An Evening With Dickie Bird, world’s most famour cricket umpire and listen to his anecdotes about the game and fascinating behind the glimpse of cricket, or go sleuthing with your favourite Sherlock Holmes and his man-Friday Dr Watson as they regale you with tales of The Solitary Bicyclist, The Red Headed League or Six Napoleans or A Case of Identity cracking case after case. If poetry is your yen then The Life & Works of W B Yeats awaits your indulgence, or if Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple is your way of lazing in afternoon or Commander Adam Dalgliesh is your man to walk you through detection...
Well, well, well. These and nearly over 100 such audio books ranging from fiction to detection to murder mysteries to sports to pastimes to education, coockery to classics, plays to poetry, what have you, all await bibliophiles and avid bookworms at City’s very own British Library at Prestige Takt, off Museum Road. Hurry, take a trip, pick up the title of your choice, and then go either hiking, on long walks, or potting about in your garden, or simply lay back in your easy chairs, and play the title. Be surrounded by sound waves as they enact and recite every word, every comma, every period, with right intonation, diction, the feel, et al and forget the real world as you always did when reading books.
