iTunes freebie: John Hodgman’s audiobook PC fans, rejoice. Today, iTunes is giving away the audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise for free. It’s no C++ GUI Programming Guide, but it looks pretty good. Here’s the write-up on the iTunes page: “In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although best sellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman, which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up.” —Posted by Tim Nudd

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Woohoo! Thanks for letting us know about that. Good ipod fodder for long trips.

Posted by: CorruptedJournalist | Dec 19, 2006 2:32:44 PM

Especially the 700+ hobo names.

Posted by: Hallelujah! I'm a Bum! | Dec 19, 2006 3:43:41 PM

Can anyone help? As a Brit, the iTunes store won't let me set up a US iTunes account (even if this item is free), so I can't download it. Any ideas?

Posted by: Neil Langridge | Dec 19, 2006 3:54:57 PM

As a Canadian, what Neil said. Can anyone post it somewhere?

Posted by: Franklin Macintosh | Dec 19, 2006 4:56:55 PM

It'll make you enter passwords. Unless you know a way around the iTunes store encoding.

Posted by: yikes | Dec 19, 2006 6:45:05 PM

You're right, Yikes. I hadn't thought of that. I can't imagine that any stranger, however kind-hearted, would be willing to burn and re-rip a 7-hour audio file. Oh well.

Posted by: Franklin Macintosh | Dec 20, 2006 8:55:58 AM

I got charged $1 for the download, but it's still listed as a pending charge. Might go away. Either way, I think I can spare the buck to brush up on my Great Hobo Rebellion history.

Posted by: CorruptedJournalist | Dec 20, 2006 10:05:48 AM

Here's Hodgman's message to non-U.S. fans:
http://areasofmyexpertise.blogspot.com/2006/12/canada-australia-germany-uk.html

Posted by: Tim Nudd | Dec 20, 2006 11:07:39 AM

So since the issue seems to be one of legality and not one of laziness, I hereby withdraw my request for anyone to do anything that would break any copyright laws. Also, drat.

Posted by: Franklin Macintosh | Dec 20, 2006 11:35:55 AM

Great book for the holidays. Put this in your ears when you go to the in-laws and they'll think you're happy to be there.

Posted by: Mike | Dec 20, 2006 12:54:17 PM

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