Re:We can't get enough of audiobooks
by matwood on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @09:15AM
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Agreed. I tend to listen to podcasts and still read books. I find the pacing in books to be built around reading them. With the popularity of audio books I wonder how long it will be until we have ‘books’ specifically done and only released for audio. I know some podcasts are close to this, but they are still not as tight as a well edited book.
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I would have thought the issue was more that many books have pacing that takes forever when read aloud. (You generally read faster than it takes to read out loud.)
In any case, you may be looking for radio plays. It's sort of a niche these days but it probably takes better advantage of the medium than simply reading fiction does. (I find non-fiction audiobooks to be very hit or miss. You can't have any real dependency on maps, figures, code/equations, etc. and the content has to be simple enough that you can just go through it at a constant linear pace.)