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You're not the only one. I don't dislike audio books, but compared to text it's just not as immersive. When reading a a good text book I get transported into it
by Ronsenshi 7y ago
You're not the only one. I don't dislike audio books, but compared to text it's just not as immersive. When reading a a good text book I get transported into it. I visualize whatever author wrote and eventually it's not even reading - it's more like a flow of information.
With audio books I don't get that - which is OK for some types of books, but definitely not something I'd pick for fiction.
- arethuza 7y agoI listen to audiobooks a lot and I generally love them but sometimes I do miss the ability to easily skip back and re-listen to a particular short section again - yes you can skip back a fixed amount easily but that takes you to a random point in the text. Local, sentence/paragraph level, navigation in audiobooks is really bad.
- ccozan 7y ago"Stop Listening" "Stopped" "Go back to where Lisa enters the cave" "Rewinding" "....."
- arethuza 7y agoWhich sounds great apart from the fact I have an accent that makes voice control work about 50% of the time, so any attempt by me to use it rapidly descends into a comedy scene with me doing a Malcolm Tucker impersonation.
- jplayer01 7y agoThis is something I've noticed with podcasts as well. The tools and players available are atrocious and I don't understand why everybody puts up with them.
- SyneRyder 7y agoWhich players have you tried? I find the players have lots of microfeatures I wouldn't even have thought of - like if I've stopped playing a podcast in Pocket Casts & pick it up a couple of hours later, it rewinds a few seconds so I get the context of what I was listening to again. Pocket Casts is nowhere near as good since the NPR acquisition, and probably not as good as Overcast or Castro or any iPhone clients, but I definitely wouldn't say it's atrocious.
- jplayer01 7y agoAll of them. And most of them are glorified radios. The few that do expose functionality for navigation and bookmarking within a podcast episode (beyond rewinding or FF by x seconds), they make it way too unintuitive to use and make you use too many clicks to use it. And there's almost no functionality around saving and organizing the episodes you've listened to. Hell, most podcast apps don't even provide a way to check your played history in a sane way (if at all). Where in the fuck is the Evernote of podcast apps? I want to tag episodes, organize them into folders, link different episodes, bookmark certain spots of an episode, tag the bookmarks, add comments/notes at certain times AND TAG THESE AND ORGANIZE THESE, etc.
- SyneRyder 7y agoOkay, I admit - that is an absolutely brilliant idea. What you've described is exactly how I use Pocket with blog posts (highlighting, searchable note taking, tagging) but for podcasts. Count me in. I know Overcast made some attempts at timecode bookmarking & sharing snippets, but I don't think their approach is the solution. (I'm on Android so I've never got to try it.) https://www.cultofmac.com/622288/how-to-share-podcast-clips-with-overcast/ https://www.cultofmac.com/622288/how-to-share-podcast-clips-...
- bhrgunatha 7y agoI get far more engrossed with books than listening to audio plus listening to a story makes me feel tired which I think is a hangover from bedtime stories as a kid.