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Print or Audiobook?
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Nov 23, 2023 03:38PM
print but Audio books are good too!
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It depends on the print book and the audiobooks, the narrator. I do have some eye problems that make reading more challenging these days, but I still enjoy print books. However, audiobooks are great while walking to work. Years ago, I had a commute in traffic that took over an hour each way each day. I popped for the $150 to have a tape deck installed in my old beater and began taking audiobooks out of the library. They transformed my commute, attitude, and mood completely. I picked books that I would otherwise be unlikely to read. (Yes, I would never have bothered with the Aneid if not for that commute and those tapes.)
Today, I often mix and match, listening to something while walking and picking up where I left off in the physical or ebook later. With the eye strain I have after a long day, the former can be a life saver.
100% depends on multiple things for me. i listen to a lot of audio books because i can do 1000 other things while i listen and i have about 100 and 1 hobbies that involve using my hands but dont require me to listen to anything. so i can do two things at once. im listening to a book as i type this. also, if the book kinda drags its a lot easier for me to listen than to physically read. theres books ive read on audio that i could have never made it through if i physically read it. on the other hand, i adore the weight and feel of a print book in my hands, specially paperback. ebooks arent as nice but it still scratches that itch for me. i also love annotating and its a lot more fun if you have a print book.
at the end of the day, ill read all formats. i also tend to buy my favorites in all formats. physically, ebook and audio.
I prefer printed books...but I have nothing against audiobooks.
BOTH. My commute is an hour or more each way. I enjoy the audio book on the commute and the print edition (on my iPad or phone) when not in the car.
Definitely print, but I have been experimenting with audiobooks and ebooks
defo print. just been listening to my first audiobooks recently and I can't say I'm particularly impressed. it might just be that one but it doesn't feel nearly as good as actually seeing the words on paper
I do prefer print but I love having the option of both. I work from home and have the availability to listen to books while working, it's allowed me the get much more reading done for the year now that I listen to books more. When I'm done working for the day and able to really relax I can pick up my kindle or a physical copy and read that way.
print, but when I don't have time then audiobooks
print, but i've been looking to try audiobooks to help me follow along in my print and e-books
I prefer both at particular times, Paperback is good when we want to read all alone to have the feel of it, whereas audiobooks are basically a good option while doing any other tasks like excercising, cooking, ironing clothes etc where our mind will be absolutely free to have a secondary task.But reading on digital screens is not my cup of coffee..
Well, if it is a book that might have a movie/videogame adaptation or sequel/prequel and it borrows famous music, sounds and actors or voice actors soundalikes then I prefer an audiobook. For example every star wars book I have read was in audiobook format. For most other occasions I prefer print.
print definitely. if it's not in print, it's not a book it's a cassette or CD.
Print. Nothing beats a physical book. I also love the sound of turning pages
Print, preferably hardback, I love the feeling and noise of cracking a spine - makes me sound like a sadist 😂- and then holding it like a treasure after!
I love reading printed books. I tried the ebook experience but it was not for me. I have a personal relationship with books: I like underline phrases or words that hit me or make me think, I use to write comments aside by using colours (and I stopped to order books online, bookstores are prior for my purchases).
I think both book and audiobook have pros and cons. What I like to do, is buy the book on audible first, listen to it, and then decide if it was worth the hype and buy it. I feel like the bookstagram stuff on tick Tok has gotten a bit out of hand recently and I have found myself buying books that honestly weren't worth they hype like they said. But if there is a book that I know for a fact that I would read/annotate, I would most definently buy it first in paper.
Both. One for listening at work and one for everywhere else
I love both! I do listen to audio books more though because I can cook and listen.
I’m definitely a print/ physical book girly! I like my sticky notes! However, I will say I am one for rereading series with the psychical book and audiobook! Mostly when the thicker fantasy series are involved!
print 100%. I like print wayyy more because I can go at my own pace and get more attached to the characters.
Print for sure, but usually have one of each going on at once. A print book for when I can sit with the book and dive in. An audiobook for driving, working, gaming.
i prefer print versus audio books because i have a hard time focusing for so long
I listen to audiobooks when I’m doing housework, gardening, doing puzzles, etc. But I also read a book on my kindle at the same time.
I’m doing an autobiography on Audible and it’s very interesting, but I can’t just sit still and listen. I only do Audible when I have a lonely, mindless activity to do. It takes forever to get through a book with Audible. I probably have every book for a month if I’m listening, whereas I could have read it in a day or two.
Team BOOKS. nothing like having the book right in your hands and having soft music in the background and candles on with finger foods to munch on and just enjoy the book in a big comfy sofa and beautiful warm blanket. I like audio on a road trip.
Print.. you can read at your own pace, reread a section, etc.
Print but I listened to The Hobbit on Audio and I’m glad I did it that way. That was the only book i ever listened to on audio.
print all day not a fan of audiobooks
Always print for me. I get too distracted when I'm listening to something as I have the impulse to do something while reading an actual book has me focusing on just that.
Printtt. I cannot read an online book i just need the feel of an actual book the smell of a fresh book. I tried readin on my kindle but I couldn't
The only way to go is the actual book
I prefer print for novels--it allows greater freedom to create scenes in the mind, instead of being limited to what fits with the narrator's voice. For non-fiction, especially for densely serious works such as American Prometheus (truly epic at about 800 pages, with mind-numbing, picayune details of conversations held decades ago), I can often stay better focused if I listen. (It didn't help at all to imagine the cozy settees, spare offices, dim lighting, or bedding furniture where Oppenheimer's musings may have taken place!)The very best audio book so far has been Naomi Klein's own narration of Doppelganger--what a world is reflected in the nuances of her voice! I could wish more authors did this--but then, most may lack Klein's way with the spoken word, despite being fluently stylish in print. If you have Doppelganger in your TBR list, be sure it's the audio version!
Print, always. I can't stand having things read to me/it is hard for me to understand something if it's being read to me.
Print. I read pretty quickly and find the pace of audio to slow. Additionally, my head tends to develop the characters voice and having someone else reading would ruin that.
