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Why listen to Audiobooks? Audiobooks are readings of books down by usually one person. AudioBooks can also be dramatised with multiple actors reading different characters. Audio Books can be Abridged or Unabridged (the full book or just the highlights). Many People Learn Better Listening to Information than Reading It. Human Beings have had a long oral tradition. Humans for thousands of years gathered to sit around the campfire listening to stories. Adults and Children love having stories read to them. Audiobooks are in that oral tradition. AudioBooks are great in than that you can listen to audio books when you are doing something else. Many people get terribly car sick (well car sick, bus sick, plane sick...any kind of motion sick), and for them there is no way to read a book while in a car or a bus (or anything moving). An audio book is fantastic on along car/bus/plane/boat journey. The just time flies as you are taken away on an imaginary journey that is just like reading (except you can keep you eyes closed)
Audio Books are great when you are doing boring things. When you do the vacuuming, cleaning the house .... Take an audio book while you do the gardening, taking a walk .. Audio Books are great for children on long car trips, boys (its usually boys) who don't like to read - get a boy to listen to an adventure Audio Book and they will be transfixed. Audio Books are great for older people with failing eyesight. Time spend sitting in hospital, or recuperating from an illness can be much more enjoyable listening to an Audio Book. Long Distance Truck Drivers and other drivers (even commuters) often use Audio Books for fatigue management. An Audio Book is an excellent method to keep you alert and attentive on a long drive. For example listening to an Audio Bible can be totally different to reading the Bible. Some Bible Audio Books are voiced with multiple actors voices giving the Bible a theatrical feeling. Some other Audio Books have been recorded with multiple voices - BBC Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars Trilogy, the New "Dune" AudioBook. These Audio Books become more like movie versions of books than standard Audio Books. Abridged Audiobooks, and a cut-down version of the book, which may be anything to a quarter of its length to three quarters. Unabridged Audiobooks have every word of the book read. There are many Business Audio Books , audio books that allow you listen to great business ideas while you are driving around to appointments. Audio Books like Psychology of Selling, Freakonomics and Buffetology. There are some great History Audio Books titles as well. Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers , John M Barry The Great Influenza, Bill Bryson - A Short History of nearly Everything.
There are great motivational Audio Books like Anthony Robbins Audio Books (Awaken the Giant, Live with Passion...) Dr Phil Audio Books for solving life's problems and Zig Ziglar for example, which you can listen to time again. Some people listen to Anthony Robbins while lifting weights at the Gym... |
