This Audible blog post about why I love audiobooks is brought you in collaboration with Audible. Thank you for supporting the brands that support me. I would like to consider myself to be someone who will always appreciate reading and learning. I love being able to read about topics or ideas I may have no idea about and dive deep into it. Even if it means reading for the pure entertainment of it and reading books that are considered classics — the act of being able to experience the book is learning all in itself and something I truly enjoy. Thankfully, my bookworm bug can always be satisfied with stories on Audible. Listed below, I have my top 8 reasons why I love audiobooks and I adore everything about Audible. Hopefully these help convince you to love it as much as I do.
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This year is the year I fell head over heels for audiobooks. And when that stopped being enough, I squirreled away extra minutes listening while knitting, doing yard work, restoring old furniture, shopping for groceries, riding my bike. My fling with audiobooks started a year ago in January when I left a job that I really loved for a new job that would be more what I needed. The new job was in a much bigger library about 45 minutes away, working on their website from a tiny cubicle surrounded by personal effects like knitted monsters and toy Japanese bunnies. Perfect for me. I was nervous about the long commute, though, so I decided to a try a little bookish experiment and checked out half a dozen audiobooks to keep me company on the drive. Maybe it was a little weird to start a brand new job with an audiobook about loss and death, but I hit the slippery highway anyway that first morning listening to The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, about the incredible pain of losing her husband and her daughter nearly, too, all within one year. I was excited about my new library, but I guess I felt a little lonely, too; maybe even a tiny bit like dying from the unknownness of it all.
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I like heavy, beautiful, hardback books with pages that smell like history and imagination. Listening to Audiobooks has completely expanded and improved my reading life. And I am passionate about helping others learn to love and value audiobooks as well. So, I have written about 11 of my reasons for loving audiobooks. I would love for you to share how you feel about audiobooks in the comments below! But, by including audiobooks you can easily increase even double the amount of books you read each year. And this is easily achievable by simply listening to books while continuing to do things you already do daily. Because audiobooks are read, often times by skilled voice actors and performers, there is an element of theatrics and entertainment that cannot be replicated sitting quietly and reading to yourself. This is especially important if you are looking to dive into some of those classics that you missed or sparknotes-ed in high school. Listening to a book while reading along can help with language acquisition , both in young readers and for people learning a new language.
I love listening to audiobooks. Why would someone who has a degree in literature, who runs a distinguished year-old publishing company, secretly ingest so many books on audio? In there were 35, audiobooks published—9, more than in And yet almost everyone I know except, of course, those as addicted to audio as I am has contempt for listening to a book. Why would an educated adult want to have a book read to them? I concede that. On the other hand, I would argue that the great tradition of writing can be traced to an oral tradition of storytelling see Homer. Much the same argument was made when Bob Dylan got the Nobel.
