With the advent of the iPad as well as Amazon’s Kindle reader, the spotlight is very closely shining on ways to read without paper. The printed book still seems to hold its place in our affections, but the number of readers who want to download audio books has grown in the past year. Literature junkies of all ages and backgrounds find that audio book download is a great way to obtain good reading material for journeys or holidays.

If you bear in mind the insane luggage weight limits on airlines, you can see another reason for this trend. One digital reader machine will weigh a lot less in your holdall or case than three fat paperbacks. And you can save even more of your valuable baggage limit with mp3 books , as they will fit into your ultra lightweight iPod. Books on the move are a digital phenomenon that looks likely to grow and grow over the next decade.