Today we have a guest post from Kathleen Hagen , who is blind, and has been her entire life. When I asked her to write about her experience with audio books for our technology themed posts this month, I  did not know she was blind. I just saw her comment in a reader forum about needing to buy stock in Audible.com and figured she could address audio books in a way that I cannot, since I don't often listen to audio books. I have used Braille since I was five years old, so I read it at a fast rate, but putting books in Braille is a very voluminous process, (the Bible, for example, is 16 large volumes). Starting in the 1930s, the Library of Congress hired actors to read books that would be available only to the blind. These were called Talking Books, and I still read some of them. However, the commercial audio market has provided a much wider market for me. I should own stock in Audible.com . I’ve bought many hundreds of books since 2005, and I read constantly - in bed, while I’m doi...