I’m listening to more audiobooks as I get older. It’s not because I’ve suddenly become an auditory learner, for sure that’s not the case. If I really want to learn something, I won’t choose to listen to it. But I am finding more time to engage with audiobooks doing household tasks and if it’s really good, even in the car where I typically prefer music.
It started when I did my first twenty-four hour readathon where my goal was to read as much as I could in that time frame which would include listening to an audiobook. Then I found that I was downloading an extra book here or there outside of readathons.
For those that are audiobook fans, I ask
- Why do you listen to audiobooks?
- What are you typically doing when listening to an audiobook?
- Are there genres that you always listen to while others you prefer not to?
- Are you “plugged in”, Bluetooth, on speaker?
- What are your favorites?
Readers Be Advised 
Pauline Wilson
April 13, 2020 at 3:09 am
Listening to audiobooks almost seems like cheating. Well it’s not really reading is it. But I don’t know why I feel like that because I love, love, love podcasts.
I have listened to a few and my favorites are invariably the ones read by the author or by someone else who has a wonderful voice.
I loved Brideshead Revisited read by Jerermy Irons. A great voice. Another favourite was Dark Emu.
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