I tried to read the book but its so long and sometimes it's hard to tell who's speaking. Loved reading when I was younger, now I work 40+ hrs a week and don't have time (or energy) to sit down and read. I still have a massive collection of books and love reading them, but I often don't have a lot of time to allocate to it. I have "read" more books through audiobooks than I have by sitting down to read for about the past year. I can listen pretty attentively to an audiobook while in the car without losing focus on the road itself.
AUDIO BOOK VS READING MANUAL
The other main advantage to audiobooks for me is the exact opposite of why I enjoy reading books - I can listen to one while doing fairly manual tasks (like the dishes, laundry, cooking, or repairing appliances) and still get immersed in the tale.
AUDIO BOOK VS READING SERIES
Examples for me are Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Frye narrating), the Expanse series (Jefferson Mays is a goddamned treasure), Altered Carbon (Todd McLaren), and The Unincorporated Man (also Todd McLaren). They can still be completely immersive, and a good narrator will build different voices for each character to ensure that they're distinct. Characters get their own special voices and it's quite pleasurable.Īudiobooks, especially ones done by a very skilled reader, are marvelous in their own way. Books allow me to sit down and carve out time to do something that is just reading, and I get to play out the narrative in my head. I find them to be roughly comparable in enjoyment, really. But it is a habit, and one you don't want to fall completely out of, so that the active part of reading feels like a chore compared to the more passive service of audiobooks. You'll find that in time your life adjusts and changes and so does the time you have for reading.
I personally use audiobooks all the time for books I would never have time to read, but am still interested in.Įven if it's 10 minutes a day, read a little. I wouldn't entirely replace reading if you can at all help it, because I think by its nature, reading, almost regardless of what you're reading, has the capacity to expand your mind more substantially. I think reading allows you to absorb more, by its nature. They are two different, and valuable experiences. I don't think there should be snobbery around this. In passive mode, the entertainment happens whether you've done this or not, and you almost certainly don't do it in the same way as when you read. This is, you have to actively engage with, interpret, process, and understand the information. I think one of the main differentials of reading a book vs other entertainment, including audio(books/podcasts/whatever), is that you must be active when reading, but you are passive when engaging with most other modern entertainment. Imo the simple answer is 'no, they are different experiences'. Id love to know what the communities opinion is on Audiobooks vs Reading and do you guys rate them as an equal experience or do Audiobooks miss anything or vica versa. For me personally it is an equal experience to actually reading and its grown on me so much, I actually look forward to work so I can listen to this series I've started and its really captured my imagination. About 2 years or so ago I found myself not having enough time to read and after another few months I found I had completely stopped reading and it was something that bothered me and I tried multiple times to get back on the horse and jump into another book but again I seemed to never be able to find time to read and most attempts failed 5 or 6 chapters in.įast forward to about 4 months ago I started working in a factory doing 3-4 12 hour shifts a week and I started getting into Audiobooks and I have been absolutely thrown back into my love of books. I used to be an avid reader and it was something I genuinely loved to do.
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