4 ms·
I find audiobooks okay only for nonfiction. Having to follow the plot and imagery of fiction while I'm doing something else is a bit too much for me and I frequ
by beforeolives 6y ago
I find audiobooks okay only for nonfiction. Having to follow the plot and imagery of fiction while I'm doing something else is a bit too much for me and I frequently lose focus and have to rewind.
- cableshaft 6y agoI'm sort of the opposite. Fiction is easier for audiobooks, for me. Nonfiction is where I often miss a number or something (like a statistic) and I have to back up and re-listen to it, and also if the point is good, I want to make a note of it to refer back to later, and I can do that more easily with a Kindle book (by making a highlight), than by digging out a physical pen and transcribing. If I miss something in a fictional audiobook I can usually infer from the context of the next few sentences, or it's just fiction anyway, no big deal if I miss a few little things in the massive story, chances are good I'm going to forget everything but the broad beats in a month or two anyway.
- beforeolives 6y agoI guess that it depends on the type of nonfiction too. I would never try to actually learn stuff in audio format.
- sriku 6y agoI tried to listen to "Tractatus" and basically gave up after 30 mins or so. To be read definitely .. not heard.
- malloryerik 6y agoWell maybe Wittgenstein would take bronze or silver in an "impossible on audiobook" contest? But Plato is a brilliant listen, unsurprisingly.
- floren 6y agoPersonally, I just can't "handle" when the narrator does voices for characters. Overly-developed fremdschämen on my part, I guess. The only fiction audiobook I've listened to all the way through is The Lord of the Rings read by Rob Inglis, and even there I had to skip forward when he started singing.