You’ve seen them—they’re everywhere. Little electronic gizmos that seem to be connected directly to the brain through the ear. Almost every teenager wants one or has one, and they’re considered “staple” items for college and high school students. Millions of iPods are invading our society at a dramatic rate.

While these devices were initially seen as a way to listen to music, they are quickly coming of age as people use them to listen to audio books, newscasts, talk shows, speeches, and more. For example, you can go to American rhetoric.com to download famous speeches like Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream.” Looking for free audio books for the kids? Visit storynory.com and choose from dozens of selections, including classic fairytales like Cinderella and The Gingerbread Man. You can even download free courses from top universities like Stanford (itunes.stanford.edu) or Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ocw.mit.edu)—better known as M.I.T.

The Church also makes thousands of audio files available for free download from lds.org, including:

- The Standard Works
- Ensign, Friend and New Era magazines from 2004 to present
- Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
- General Conference talks from 2003 to present
- Songs from the Children’s Songbook, - Hymns, and other specialty music
- Select leadership broadcasts
- Select CES Firesides

If your audio player of choice is an iPod, you can subscribe to “podcasts” and have current devotionals, classic devotionals, and other recordings automatically loaded onto your player when you synchronize.

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