I love librivox

>download audiobook of one of my favorite books to listen to while doing chores
>american author
>read by an obnoxious brit that annunciates every fucking syllable.
why do they do this. got a refund.

Not my thing, but they're fine. Never really understood people who sperg out and start screeching that they're not really reading

>>25326036
>re/lit/igation - the board

I use them every now and then when they're cheap or short or I like the audio voice over or whatever. It's been a couple years, though. Reading to me is much faster, more efficient and feels better.

>>25326036
A return to the original form of storytelling

I heard a study found this:
>Two groups, A is book readers, B is audiobook readers
>Book readers and audiobook readers will absorb information roughly the same if you ask them trivia questions to test how well they did
>ie "How many of each animal did Noah have on the ark?" they'll both answer "two" roughly the same amount
>But if you ask "How many of each animal did Moses have on the ark?" then the audiobook readers are more likely to say "two" but the book readers are more likely to pick up on that being a trick question
Not a huge difference, but that's what they found.

>>25326036
It hurts my ears if I listen with my headphones for more than 1 hour, even at low volume.

>>25326036
I listen to some to past the time. But I don't retain the information as well as actually reading

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>>25327355
Same. I've listened to plenty of audiobooks, and I would say my net retention of the content of the story was the same as if I had read the book. I think it does work better for novels though. I've seen people do tech books through audiobooks and I just get lost. It's much more difficult to go back for something to reference.

>>25327342
I dunno. The narrator can ruin a book. Whoever did Snow Crash was great, whoever narrated The Dev Ops Handbook was a nasally brat.

>>25326036
It’s not reading and they aren’t books.

>>25327355
Gr8 b8, you know it not reading. Words mean things. It’s listening, not reading.

>>25327543
>ie "How many of each animal did Noah have on the ark?" they'll both answer "two" roughly the same amount
What do you mean by this, though? Did they consider that to be correct? How many from each group remembered that he brought seven of some of the animals?