I spent the first few years of the ebook emergence crabbing that reading electronically was SIMPLY NOT THE SAME as sniffing paper; then the first first few years after I got an e-reader declaring that I would NEVER read on a screen as small as my PHONE. But of course my phone is what I always have with me, so ...
I spent probably 15 years declaring that I would NEVER be able to enjoy audiobooks, because they're so SLOW and why would I want to WASTE my valuable READING TIME waiting for another human being's mouth to catch up with all the words. Aaaannnd then I learned how to knit, and the only way to knit and read at the same time is ... audiobooks. And then I took up gardening (same), and then I discovered that they cure my insomnia, so ...
Apparently my theme for this lifetime is "learn how to be wrong."
I still haven't adapted to reading books on my phone but now do 90% of my reading on a Kindle Paperwhite. I tend to read at night and not having to use an extra light source is pretty helpful. And for genre fiction readers, the Kindle Unlimited thing is a pretty good deal—I am planning to put GLDA into that.
The knitting use case is kinda what I'm thinking of for audiobooks. I listen to podcasts when doing calligraphy right now, and maybe that's where I'd switch to audiobooks.
I would like it for lecture type learning, or textbooks. When I was on grand jury duty we had only our notes to go by, so I did what I used to in school lectures and speed wrote down the witness testimony. I went through so much ink in a month!
Forgot to add that I also listen to podcasts during calligraphy practice, and like to choose words I hear to write prettily. It’s especially fun if it’s a horror fiction or paranormal podcast.
This is me with fountain pens. Decades of fine and extra fine, tame inks; now I love italics, shimmer, and even pink ink (Still not a fan of regular medium and broad, these become italic).
I’m not an audiobook “reader.” I prefer to use my eyes to read, doesn’t have to be a physical book, I use both Kindle and Books on my iPad, so that my house is no longer overflowing with books everywhere. I do like podcasts.
Yeah, I think I have a bias against audiobooks because my memory is of listening to old-timey books on tape where the book wasn't really written in a way that translated well to being read out loud. I know things have certainly changed in the last thirty years, though, and the quality of audiobooks where the source material is written more in a screenplay/teleplay style has gotta be much higher.
At any rate, at current time the poll results are a 50/50 dead heat, which, given that the audience for this blog (people who read about writing instruments on Substack), is a lot of audiobook listeners.
I spent the first few years of the ebook emergence crabbing that reading electronically was SIMPLY NOT THE SAME as sniffing paper; then the first first few years after I got an e-reader declaring that I would NEVER read on a screen as small as my PHONE. But of course my phone is what I always have with me, so ...
I spent probably 15 years declaring that I would NEVER be able to enjoy audiobooks, because they're so SLOW and why would I want to WASTE my valuable READING TIME waiting for another human being's mouth to catch up with all the words. Aaaannnd then I learned how to knit, and the only way to knit and read at the same time is ... audiobooks. And then I took up gardening (same), and then I discovered that they cure my insomnia, so ...
Apparently my theme for this lifetime is "learn how to be wrong."
I still haven't adapted to reading books on my phone but now do 90% of my reading on a Kindle Paperwhite. I tend to read at night and not having to use an extra light source is pretty helpful. And for genre fiction readers, the Kindle Unlimited thing is a pretty good deal—I am planning to put GLDA into that.
The knitting use case is kinda what I'm thinking of for audiobooks. I listen to podcasts when doing calligraphy right now, and maybe that's where I'd switch to audiobooks.
I would like it for lecture type learning, or textbooks. When I was on grand jury duty we had only our notes to go by, so I did what I used to in school lectures and speed wrote down the witness testimony. I went through so much ink in a month!
Forgot to add that I also listen to podcasts during calligraphy practice, and like to choose words I hear to write prettily. It’s especially fun if it’s a horror fiction or paranormal podcast.
This is me with fountain pens. Decades of fine and extra fine, tame inks; now I love italics, shimmer, and even pink ink (Still not a fan of regular medium and broad, these become italic).
I think they put some kind of hypnotic attractant into the shimmer inks to draw us all in.
Pheromones
Who says adults don’t get reading pizza parties? Call up your local Pizza Hut and get the ball rolling. Good for you, good for them, SYNERGY!
I’m not an audiobook “reader.” I prefer to use my eyes to read, doesn’t have to be a physical book, I use both Kindle and Books on my iPad, so that my house is no longer overflowing with books everywhere. I do like podcasts.
Yeah, I think I have a bias against audiobooks because my memory is of listening to old-timey books on tape where the book wasn't really written in a way that translated well to being read out loud. I know things have certainly changed in the last thirty years, though, and the quality of audiobooks where the source material is written more in a screenplay/teleplay style has gotta be much higher.
At any rate, at current time the poll results are a 50/50 dead heat, which, given that the audience for this blog (people who read about writing instruments on Substack), is a lot of audiobook listeners.
My brain automatically makes up voices for book characters, leading to disappointment.