What are you talking about, embarrassment? I love audio books (only if they're unabridged mind you). I practically stopped reading any other way. Audio books are awesome; You can read with your eyes closed. You can turn dull work like shoveling or rotoscoping from a bottomless pit of terrible boredom into a fun time well spent. Audio books really help when I'm doing roto work - hours and hours spent shifting dots around on a computer - very easy work that doesn't require a lot of focus most of the time but is horribly tedious - but having an audio book on makes it great. I only regret that as far as I know there are no unabridged Zahn Star Wars audio books other than the Thrawn trilogy. Am I wrong?