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Ebooks are my overwhelming choice. Audiobooks are only used when my eyes refuse to cooperate. Difficult for me to listen to a book.
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Bah, humbug!
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Bah, humbug!
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Plus, you can load their course syllabuses onto your e-reader to backup your audio learning! Last edited by WT Sharpe; 02-20-2010 at 07:38 PM. |
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I like em both.
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So do I. Audio books are great for when I am busy doing mindless tasks and ebooks are great for when you just want to sit down with a good book and get lost in it.
At this point in time, if anything happens to either my Zune (mp3 player) or my Kindle, I might just have a major meltdown. |
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I prefer reading books in general, as I like to stop and think as I read. But every now and then there is an audiobook gem. One time when I had a very long drive for work, I picked up an unabridged version of "The DaVinci Code" to listen to on the way. I have to say that the reader was absolutely captivating, and had wonderful voices for each character.
After the 5.5 hour drive, I sat in the car outside the hotel listening for 20 minutes to let the current CD finish up before I could tear myself away. |
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I don't even conciser an audio book to be a book, and don't consume them at all.
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Perhaps you haven't tried listening to any good ones? You're right, it is a completely different experience to reading, but can be equally rewarding, with a good reader (human reader, I mean - the person who's reading the book). As I said in an earlier post, I listen to them on my way to and from work; that's about an hour and a half a day that would otherwise be "wasted", since I obviously couldn't read a book while driving!
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I feel bad for the narrator, esp if it is a long book, worse if it is a bad book. Must be depressingly tiring to read every single word. I can sense the tiredness in the voice and sometimes the narrator's voice can get a little hoarse. That gets in the way of my enjoyment of an audiobook. As I said, I'm not complaining. I just feel awfully sorry for the reader.
So, ebooks for me. |
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A friend of mine, a British TV actress by profession, has a nice sideline in narrating audiobooks while she's "between" acting jobs. She's narrated several hundred of them. |
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Tricky, but not impossible. My audiobook player supports highlighted bookmarks (the audio equivalent of underlining) and voice notes. I can mark a passage, record a voice note, and then play back both the passage and my voice note later.
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http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/prod...daisy_mp3.html It plays a bunch of formats (including Audible) and also does text-to-speech. |
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