Thank you so very much. This is a wonderful gift to us.

Thank you for this. I just downoaded it for my Kindle! I'm reading John O'Malley's wonderful book on Vatican II right now, so your timing is perfect.

Will this book be available on cd?

Dan, you have raised a very good question. I am a fan of books on CD as well. I looked but was unable to find anything at all. I also looked for audiobooks - those not on CD but still in digital format and which can be downloaded. I did not find anything. The only other workaround I can think of, and I must point out that I have not tried this myself, is to download an e-book (like the above). I have a Windows PC desktop and within the sytem (not something you have to purchase as extra) there is the capability to do both voice recogniton and text read back. I have used the former, but not the latter. In the Windows schema you find it through Control Panel, Speech Recognition, Text to Speech. I am sure Apple has something similar. I think the Ipad system has something called Voiceover. Here is a link to a demonstration of the Ipad feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB0kyBzBDT4 To be noted is that some e-books have this potential disabled. Perhaps America magazine could research that and add some light to this discussion??? I would try out the experience of having text turned to speech first on some neutral text that you already have. Admittedly, it is not the same thing as having a human being with emotion and inflection reading to you. I am just trying to respond to your need but am not aware of whether your interest is focused by the need to multitask or vision issues. If it is multitasking, maybe this isn't a good solution since one really does want to be fully present. My thoughts... Hope they are helpful.