Audiobooks in general
A number of people close to me have suggested that I get into the world of the audiobook. I am not saying that will not happen and I am not saying that it will never happen. I just want to point out that it has not happened yet. And there are reasons. I have been a reader in one way or another for better than six decades. I have read a lot of books in that time and it’s in acquired talent. In the same way that some people do not want to be driven by anyone else in their car I do not want someone else using their voice to replace my thought process. There is no such thing as an audiobook that will be in my voice until such time as I start reading them aloud to make my own library. It could happen but it has not, yet. Also based on some serious research the number of audiobooks does not equal the amount of content available in print. Not even close. The idea of deciding what I want to hear and then purchased to be able to hear it has not has not clicked with me. I listen, all the time, to a wide range of content. Thank you Internet. I have just not evolved to the point where I want to commit myself to thousands and thousands of words by a stranger. I tend to be distracted by accents and I am sure that I would come across an audiobook where I would only be able to concentrate on the speaker and not the content. I think you see the risk. So for now I will continue with my habits that I have built up and I will not be transmitting my thoughts via an audiobook anytime soon. Could that change? For sure. After all I am a work in progress. Unlike most audiobooks. I will listen to content that is being given to me by YouTube channel because in no way does a YouTube video commit me to a week of listening. Also when I tire of a video I have probably seen enough of the content visually to give me the story. In the case of an audiobook if I stop after the 1st chapter I will have no idea about what happened or is going to happen.
