Incoherence and audiobooks

A short word of warning first: I'm not feeling very well, and I seem to have mislaid much of my clarity of thought. If the following seems at all incoherent or rambling, I'm blaming it on being ill. It's a nice get-out clause :)

Yesterday's sore throat has turned into a very sore throat coupled with a good bout of exhaustion. I'm typing this on my five year old laptop, which I think is rather grateful to get some attention for once.

I'm in bed listening to an abridged audiobook of Jingo by Terry Pratchett, and I've found that it's very possible to listen and type at the same time, not least because I've read the book so many times that I can easily keep up with what's going on. I haven't ever really listened to the abridged Discworld audio books before - I do have quite a few of the 10-hour, unabridged ones, though. I happened to win the first 26 abridged audiobooks in a competition about 18 months ago, and I thought I may as well listen to one of them. It turns out that since I know the book so well my mind keeps filling in some of the paragraphs or jokes that have been left out, so I keep laughing in places where absolutely nothing funny has been said!

Actually, keeping on the same line of thought, I haven't actually spent that much money on my audiobook collection. There's the abridged ones that I won, then there were two unabridged ones that I won (one of them signed), three unabridged ones that I bought on CD as MP3 files (which cost about a third of the normal price), one unabridged that I found in WHSmiths for 50p (down from £20), another unabridged one that was given away in MP3 format by...some computer magazine with a DVD on the cover, and I think I actually bought the remaining two of my collection. I'm such a cheapskate :)