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10 December 2024

Do you like audio books? I’ve noted that many people don’t like them or are at least blase about listening to them. Me I love them, especially when traveling. I’ve bought many over the years, starting with books on cassettes, then CDs, and now downloads. I keep hundreds on a USB memory stick which I keep plugged into my car and listen to them whenever I want. I gave my cassettes to Goodwill a while back. I still read, of course, and also have a small library of hard back novels. I generally do not buy both an audio and a hard back of the same book. I tried digital reading for a while, but that passed.

“Listening to the dulcet tones of a familiar voice is an appealing way to work our way through those books we’ve always meant to get around to but haven’t.” - Clare Thorp

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  • kevin collins CNZM, CBE, AK@xoxo.zone
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    1 month ago

    @[email protected] oh and I should qualify solo time blocks. I am solo working from home every day. I have lots of friends who can work while listening to narrated books. I can’t even listen to music with singing for the most part, I just end up concentrating on the words so I stick to mostly instrumental music during work.

    • Swede’s Photographs@universeodon.comOP
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      @[email protected]

      Music you can ignore as white noise and concentrate on what you are doing. With a book, where you want to capture the words in your head, it doesn’t make sense to play it while you are trying to get something done unless it involves a repetitive activity that you don’t need to think about otherwise, if you need to focus on your work, you miss much of the book.