Reading V: Reading vs. listening to books

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I actually haven't tried audiobooks, but I expect it won't be as easy for me as one would expect it to be. How about you? Maybe it's primarily a concentration or attention problem, but I normally need to focus to really absorb something I'm reading. To do so with something I'm just listening to would likely need double the effort. I suppose my brain can get easily distracted from words my ears hear, by things my eyes see. And if I close my eyes, I might just fall asleep. :P But I expect listening to audiobooks is a different experience to reading books. Maybe somewhere between reading a book and watching a movie. And it would be interesting to hear how other people read and interpret it, compared to just me reading the book aloud. But for that, I think I'll stick to trying audio versions of books I'm already familiar with. Part 6 tomorrow. :) Picture is the third and last that I took of our city's public library's main room which I described in part 2, a little to the right of part 4's picture. Update: Again, I prepared the above about half a year ago, and this is the part that has the most updates, I think. I have since tried a few audiobooks, and I have proven myself correct. Sad to say, I am the kind who can't listen to audiobooks while, for instance, washing dishes, or cleaning my room. I'll only end up pausing intermittently asking 'what was that?', rewinding, and listening again more intently. (My mind wanders easily...) To listen to an audiobook properly, I have to focus my attention on it. So it is best if I sit in my quiet room to do it. Just sit, and listen. Try not to lie down. Because if I close my eyes, I'll fall asleep, and I will have to rewind and start over from where I last remember. Having said that, I've enjoyed listening to at least a couple of audiobooks. My favorite so far has to be this one narrated by Jim Broadbent. That sounded perfect. The other one got me interested in the story and the author... But others, I enjoyed less. Anyway, I think I'll write more about all of these in future posts.