[amazon_link id=”B001CEI2XU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : 4/5
Narrator : Frederick Davidson
Length : 6 hours 5 minutes

(Image on left indicative of audiobook – it is not the same audiobook though)

I’m a big fan of P.G.Wodehouse but his books, at least in print, are generally not in the local library. What with this new-fangled technology and all 🙂 I’ve been able to get an audiobook of his on my phone. The next time I decide to write an ode, it will be in praise of Overdrive, and it’s app. You can connect to the library directly, no messing around with a PC, and download the mp3 to the phone.

This was the first audiobook I got for the phone, and it’s kind of opened the gateway – I’ll be getting many more now. The uses are many; I listen to them on my way to and from work, and then there is added motivation to take a walk. Android won’t play the WMA books, so some of the Overdrive catalog is unavailable to me; you can apparently get it on the PC and convert the file for use on an Android phone, but that sounds like too much work.

Anyway, the book was very good. I adore Wodehouse’s turn of phrase; people “blow in” and “shimmy about”. The characters are good-hearted buffoons of the first order – in this book there’s Bertie Wooster and a number of his similarly quirky friends. Then of course, there is Jeeves to save the day. The narrator Frederick Davidson was fantastic; he made the book better with his style of narration, and I will be looking for other books that he has narrated. The audio recording was 6 hours long, and downloaded to the phone in 6 parts or so.