The thing that keeps from reading in the tub is that my glasses steam up. (Reading without glasses is not an option. Contacts are also not an option for various reasons.)

I can't figure out how to arrange my arms so that I'm comfortable reading in the tub. My current tub is uncomfortable to just soak in, anyway, so with the right tub I suppose that might change. A stack of magazines lives on the bathroom counter. Driving (or riding while someone else drives) is really the only time I can stand to listen to audiobooks. If I try to just sit and listen to one I either get all fidgety or I fall asleep, and if I try to multitask whilst listening I completely miss large swaths of text. But driving apparently takes exactly the right amount of attention to allow me to follow the audiobook.

Exercising is good audio book time for me. I have even mamaged to work the heavy bag while listening to a CD of instructions and a book on top of each other. But normally it's treadmill/reclining bike.

Dude. I just fell asleep watching the season premiere of Heroes. I must be seriously tired. I think I'm going to go take a bath and read a book right now. It'll be fucking great.

Depth of current tub is shallow enough that I can prop my elbow on the bottom with book in hand and not get it wet. I have also perfected a one-handed book-hold-and-page-turn methodology that works for all but the heaviest hardbacks. Which, okay, I probably shouldn't have in the tub with me anyway. Not that that stops me.

My glasses fog up, but then they get over it. And the current glasses are made of an evidently supernaturally durable material (I keep waiting for them to wear out so I can get a different style, but they never do. This is the same pair I had in my mid twenties when my eyes stopped getting worse. I'm used to my vision getting significantly worse every year and thereby being able to update my style annually. Good thing this was a moderate black wire-frame instead of one the more extreme versions when my vision stabilized.) so they're fine. I had a previous pair where the earpieces rusted out because I kept getting water in the little plastic bits against the metal from reading in the bath so much. Whups.

I can't even hold a conversation when I drive, the verbal section of my brain is not online when I'm driving. The pattern recognition/geometry section is in control, and if I try to swap bad things happen.

I get all lost in thinking about my breathing and technique (and this is is usually just walking) and keep having to rewind. It's a bummer, because it seems like the perfect opportunity to consume more books. I'm hopeful that I will not have to think quite so much at some point and audiobooks will be accessible to me.

connie, I just heard about a study that says that's exactly why it's hard for people to talk on the cellphone and drive - it's not the verbal so much, as that they are picturing the other person, to the detriment of watching traffic.

I hate audiobooks. I've tried and tried, but I hate them. Plus, $35 for a book you can't flip through? No.

I don't buy audiobooks. I nabbed some in a free trial, or I borrow them from the library, rip to iPod and delete when I return them.

On my long commute it was perfect. These days, NSM. Now that I neither drive far nor exercise poor James Bond hasn't even gotten to the good bits yet.

No books in the bathroom. Sorry.

I bring reading materials into the bathroom and GF hates it.