So I just had this idea pop up. My SIL just announced she's pregnant with her second kid, she's very excited. My nephew is 5 and is one of those kids that insists on being read to all the time, I want to support this but I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets quickly exhausted after the fourth or fifth book, every single visit.

My thought is to have myself and my husband personally record audiobooks for my nephew of his favorite books plus some new ones. These can be used for the new baby as well, of course. But my idea was to get a personal casset player for myself and one for him, that way my nephew can control it himself and if something breaks it's pretty cheap to replace, easy to record and I can record a new tape every month or so, that way he can build up a library.

I know that audio books are a thing, but I'm thinking that personal touch of his aunt and uncles' voices doing the tapes may inspire him to use them, instead of insisting on being read to in case mom can't because she's exhausted.

I want to inspire him to read and keep reading, it's something very important to me and I think the personal touch will mean a lot more.

Is there a better/easier way to do this? I wanted to avoid anything that uses apps or phones or screens, something that is truly boiling down to being read to, something he can play in bed for himself as he goes to sleep.

But I don't know if that would be too much trouble to worry about teaching him how to use a cassett player and everything the SIL may worry about.

Let me know what you think, especially if you're a parent. My husband and I are childless by choice and have few friends with kids so we can miss out on parental perspectives.