Since finishing Babel and professing my undying love to it, I’ve spent much of my time conversing with other readers about exactly what I loved and why, as well as trying to convince a minority of readers that this is definitely worth the time and effort. (its a whopping 560 pages or 21 hours and…
Category: audiobooks
For the love of audiobooks
While I fully appreciate that audiobooks may not be for everyone, their numbers are continuing to rise, especially for people under 35, who make up nearly half of frequent audiobook listeners. I think this is a really exciting statistic and celebrates the neurodiversity amongst readers. It makes books and reading accessible to people who have different styles of learning and living. In my home everyone listens to audiobooks and my children, aged 7 and under, all borrow books they like to listen to as well as books they like to read or be read to. We listen to audiobooks, fiction and nonfiction, on car journeys and it is a really lovely bonding experience for us a family, which I highly recommend to everyone.
Audiobooks and the psychology of listening
Listening to audibooks can be such a sensory experience, almost like being in a theatre where the stage is your imagination. I’ve noticed that newer audiobooks are performed and not simply read, and its such a pleasurable experience that you really don’t want distractions. Active listening in our lives helps us be more respectful, gain more knowledge and understanding as well as build better relationships. I think all these principles can also be applied to being better readers.
This Hybrid Reads 