I love NPR, but although I have a perfectly good radio and I’m aware that you can stream recent shows from their site, I’m almost never in the mood to listen to the radio when I’m sitting at my desk, and I’m almost never home to hear my favorite shows to begin with. So it turns out that the high-quality radio show files you can get from Audible are a boon for me - I can get each day’s All Things Considered on my iPod to listen to as I commute, and I no longer have to be home on Saturdays (or sitting at my desk later on) to listen to the news from Lake Wobegon. Not to mention the audiobooks which are, I guess, the primary focus of the site. I’m not a big audiobook person myself, but I won’t turn down a little David Sedaris or Calvin Trillin from time to time.