CLICK HERE to hear the title opening of CONNECTED, the Audio Book When the nice people at Cherry Hill Publishing approached me last year, asking if they could publish an audio book version of Connected, I had little experience of this rich and rapidly growing format, or what the publication process would entail. So when given the choice of letting them choose an actor to narrate my book, or reading it myself, I decided to give it a go. How hard could it be? I thought. Throughout my career in IT, I’d done a fair bit of public speaking and have several times recorded the narration to on-line product demonstrations. Besides, I used to read to my daughters when they were little and they never complained (except when it was bed-time and they wanted me to continue). So I signed both author and narrator contracts, and a few days later took delivery of all the necessary professional recording gear (see photo above), all courtesy of Cherry Hill Publishing. Unfortunately, the quality of the microphone was so good, I soon realised that any recording made in the city apartment I was inhabiting at the time, would inevitably contain  traffic noise. And since this noise, while not especially loud, was changing and unpredictable, it proved impossible to completely filter out electronically. This, combined with the premature birth of our twins, and our subsequent move from Birmingham to Falmouth in March this year, all conspired to postpone the start of recording until around May. Now of course, although our new location in...