How does Veeky Forums feel about listening to books vs reading them?
How does Veeky Forums feel about listening to books vs reading them?
Jason Phillips
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Christopher Myers
Why not both?
I'm currently listening/reading the Iliad
They're two different translations, which means I'll definitely learn the dumb Roman god names
Oliver Turner
if it's poetry, it's fine. poetry was meant to be recited. if it's prose, you should be reading the pages as you listen.
Ethan Murphy
They're both completely different methods of reading a book and you'll get a different experience with an audiobook than if you read it yourself.
Luis Foster
I came here to ask this exact question.
I really want to read/listen to some Neil Gaiman cause I think I'd like him. I much rather lay down in the dark and just listen before bed.
American Gods and Caroline. Read or listen?
Ryder Young
>Iliad
>Roman god names
Jaxson Gomez
Read and play some music in the background.
Jackson Bailey
this...is a librivox recording...all librivox recordings are in the public domain :)
James Flores
But then I gotta turn on my bright room light, and pay for the book, and if i want a dim light i gotta buy that. instead of just torrenting the audiobook.
Lucas Gutierrez
>he doesn't have an ereader with a backlight
>his phone can't stream YouTube "best of [classical composer]" playlists
scrub
Thomas Murphy
it's cool for nonfiction and easy prose before bed. but if you really want to enjoy reading something, you need to subvocalize. listening to an umberto eco right now; v. cozy.
fuck you
Hunter Ward
>using "best of [classical composer]" playlists
absolute pleb-tier autism
I'm indescribably upset about this
Oliver Anderson
stay mad
John Richardson
listening to classical music is so indescribably pseud that i hope you both get pegged
Colton Miller
I'm upsetti because it's plebbish
Brayden Thompson
librivox is a lifesaver for me especially as a literature major reading late at night. it keeps me on task and helps me plow through material without stopping. especially books that I really don't want to fucking read.
Elijah Robinson
There's nothing worse than a brainlet trying to downplay classical music.
Jack Ward
>Librivox
>pointless bumper on every chapter
Why is every decent idea in opensource ruined by this sort of thing.
Brody Reed
Eh it doesn't really bother me. I usually take the time to set the book down and get a quick stretch.
Luke Thompson
I find audio books are great for trashy stuff to get me to sleep, or even, lower tier stuff.
> Donna Tart
> Hunger Games
> Stephen King
> Michael Faber
Would never be arsed to read ^ but while falling asleep is great.
Ian Myers
Autism
Jacob Morris
A book is always fine to read but an audiobook depends entirely on the narrator. And it is hellish to listen to a mediocre narrator trying to pronounce unpronounceable names, speak with a dozen accents for a hundred characters.
Btw where do you get your ebooks after the demise of the usual suspects?
Jose Reed
Audiobooks are fucking awesome. I can't even count the number of hours I have spent listening to audiobooks.
For those of us with actual jobs, it's awesome, get paid while being educated/entertained.
I know a lot of Veeky Forums sneers at audiobooks because they are pretentious hipster faggots, but being able to do other shit while still listening to a book maximises your productivity while absorbing and retaining the same content.
The only bad thing is narrators. Some narrators are fucking dreadful which makes it borderline unbearable, but a good narrator is fucking dank.
>Tfw I can't even really remember what I did on any given day, I'm just on autopilot listening to a fun book
Feels so fucking good man. Especially when you work a trade and have minimal customer interaction. Though inevitably some health and safety douchebag will tell me off for wearing earbuds on a job site, hate those cunts.
Angel Foster
I listen to stuff at work. Books and podcasts mostly. I agree with the poster above, but also because my job requires a lot of reading and research out of the lab, so reading for pleasure is out the window
Bentley Wright
Go back to plebbit
Luke Russell
I didn't like the American Gods audiobook, but I'd already read it so it did the thing where everything just feels uncomfortably different from how it sounded in your head
Jackson Martinez
Only listen to audiobooks if it's genre fiction and you don't cherish your time to read something good.
Charles Morgan
Eat shit faggot.
Thomas Richardson
It's pseud if you're only doing it to come off as "cultured" and don't actually have any interest in classical music.