What do you think about audio books?

bookbandit

andf224 23-5-2018 07:17 PM
Audio Books  definitely not my kind of books... Mine are either good old print book or e-book. Had t ...

I hear you. I walk for an hour everyday. I needed to leverage that hour, and I thought, man let's give this a spin. So, I have started picking up motivational stuff and other nonfiction. So far it's working for me. It also works during the commute, if there isn't too much traffic on the road drowning the audio out.  At all events, it's merely to supplement your reading and it can never take the place of actually reading from a book. Very difficult to back up to something you may have missed on mp3. Like my ipod backs up to the last "chapter" and I can't precisely position it to somewhere in between and that sucks.

rentpeproperty

The book, if read at leisure, should be allowed to engage in a dialogue with our thoughts. And therein lies the value of text as opposed to relying on auditory senses.

jhsurti

rentpeproperty 30-5-2018 12:24 AM
The book, if read at leisure, should be allowed to engage in a dialogue with our thoughts. And there ...

Very well expressed!

bookbandit

rentpeproperty 30-5-2018 12:24 AM
The book, if read at leisure, should be allowed to engage in a dialogue with our thoughts. And there ...

very nicely said. I see jhsurti beat me to it. I concur.

eheske

I prefer physical/ebooks. Somehow, I don't like audio books as it doesn't create the atmosphere or thrill I experience when I read the book myself.

sriramr10

No audio books for me, love the silence when I'm reading a book

b_mayukh

books are for reading dude, not listening. said that, we have allmost all had history of ebook.....our old grandmothers or nannies were our ebooks only

cynic

b_mayukh 5-6-2018 12:41 AM
books are for reading dude, not listening. said that, we have allmost all had history of ebook.....o ...

That is an interesting way to look at it. Our grannies were indeed a treasure trove of stories.

jhsurti

b_mayukh 5-6-2018 12:41 AM
books are for reading dude, not listening. said that, we have allmost all had history of ebook.....o ...

Yes, they were our audio-books of sorts. BUT we could interrupt them and ask questions, clear doubts, ask her to describe some more of a character or a place... Our inquistiveness would be attended to. One doesn't get that in audio books!

renek

listening to audiobooks in the car sounds interesting