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Audible subscription and wireless, noise canceling headphones. Listening a book while taking one hour walk from office to home is a pleasure. Noise canceling

Audible subscription and wireless, noise canceling headphones. Listening a book while taking one hour walk from office to home is a pleasure. Noise canceling headphones are important for me as they cut down the traffic noise. Audible subscription makes buying easy and removes the "is this book worth this much" decision. One problem with the audiobooks is that you can't flip through the pages or search to recall something. Would be nice if there was for example audio+kindle combo subscription availabe. Multitasking does not work for me. If I don't rfocus on the book, I miss it completely. In a sense this is meditative experience. With regular book I just pause reading, with audio book I try to keep other thoughts away.

twoquestions 10y ago
> Listening a book while taking one hour walk from office to home is a pleasure. Have you had problems being disconnected from the world around you with such a setup? I'd like to take more walks instead of sitting more when I get home, but I'd be worried about being hit by a car or something I didn't hear.
- riffraff 10y ago
  I'm probably missing something here, but: sidewalks? I've also been listening while walking around/using public transport for many years, you can usually just pause the thing when you're in a situation that requires more attention (e.g. crossing) but generally it's better than walking while reading. The problem is more that if many things are happening you tend to lose track of the book. But that's why apps have "go back 30 second" shortcuts.
  - twoquestions 10y ago
    I live in a suburb, we don't have many sidewalks and we don't walk anywhere. I've been yelled at and nearly run over for using crosswalks, and walking to get where you're going is something only the poorest of the poor do here. Sad, really.
- ghostly_s 10y ago
  I'm guessing you don't live in a place where people walk very often? Everyone has had headphones on while walking for the last ten years.
oh_sigh 10y ago
Have you ever considered a helicopter could be crashing down on you and you would never know?

twoquestions 10y ago

> Listening a book while taking one hour walk from office to home is a pleasure. Have you had problems being disconnected from the world around you with such a setup? I'd like to take more walks instead of sitting more when I get home, but I'd be worried about being hit by a car or something I didn't hear.

riffraff 10y ago
I'm probably missing something here, but: sidewalks? I've also been listening while walking around/using public transport for many years, you can usually just pause the thing when you're in a situation that requires more attention (e.g. crossing) but generally it's better than walking while reading. The problem is more that if many things are happening you tend to lose track of the book. But that's why apps have "go back 30 second" shortcuts.
- twoquestions 10y ago
  I live in a suburb, we don't have many sidewalks and we don't walk anywhere. I've been yelled at and nearly run over for using crosswalks, and walking to get where you're going is something only the poorest of the poor do here. Sad, really.
ghostly_s 10y ago
I'm guessing you don't live in a place where people walk very often? Everyone has had headphones on while walking for the last ten years.

oh_sigh 10y ago

Have you ever considered a helicopter could be crashing down on you and you would never know?