eGo 250 Classic Audiobooks or 50 Kids Audiobooks/Earbuds Set
- You get 250 audiobooks (or 50 for the kids version).
- The grown-up version is just the audiobooks on a USB drive.
- The kids version is a download code and set of earbuds.
- They’re all public domain titles. Which means you can find some online for free. But the quality is not always great on those freebies. Check out this comparison we put together.
- Model: IL50YL11, EGO2022, EGO2033. The IL stands for ‘Intensely Literary,’ and the EG stands for ‘Extra Good.’
We've Lost The Plot
Yes, you get 250 classic audiobooks (or 50 classic kids audiobooks and a pair of earbuds) for just $10 (or less). And yes, the audiobooks are read by real actors and recorded in real recording studios, so the quality is real high, making this a great purchase for your upcoming summer road trip.
But friends, this is America! Where everything is online and costs no money! Which is why I didn’t buy the eGo Audiobooks set the last time we sold it. Instead, I found versions of many of the same books for FREE.
The audio quality on the ones I downloaded is… uh… not great. And the performances are pretty weak. But actually more concerning is the content. I fear that, with some of them, the readers are just making things up as they go. So, if you don’t mind, I’d like to use this space to ask a few questions concerning the plots of the books I’ve been listening to, and you can tell me in the comments if they sound right. Again, these are the ones I got for free, not the ones in this set.
Anyway, here goes:
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Is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne the story of an underwater society that’s overcrowded with professional sports franchises?
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Is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad about the cardiology unit of a small hospital dealing with a terrible power outage?
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Does A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift tell the story of a man trying to marry his longtime girlfriend, while remaining unforthcoming about his many achievements?
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Is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas written in the form of a catering order?
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In Call Of The Wild by Jack London, is the protagonist an amateur hockey player from outside Minneapolis who finally gets called up to play with the local pro team?
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Is The Turn of The Screw by Henry James a guide to putting together a desk?
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In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, is the narrator frustrated because he wants to find an image of the kind of car they used in Back To The Future but he can’t remember how to spell the it (and also he wants it to be a certain color)?
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Is When the World Screamed by Arthur Conan Doyle literally just nothing but someone screaming for hours on end?
You know, the more I think about it, the more it seems like a good idea to just buy this eGo audiobook set…
