[Perfectlap]

get a kindle. It has text to speech. Buy series 7 for dummys. listen while you wax, drink beer or bike ride.
text to speech also works with the newspaper and some of the older books where an audiobook is not available. and get a set of LG Tone bluetooh headphones which last an easy 7 hours per charge. that way you don't have to be attached to the kindle with one of those old school headphone wires that get tanled into a knot. I'm not sure which Kindles are BT capable though.