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Originally Posted by CRussel
That's interesting. For many years, starting in the mid-80's, I had lengthy car commutes. Books on Tape was very much my friend! I got in the habit of listening to books (though only rarely to non-fiction), and am quite comfortable with it. Originally, I was not impressed with WhisperSync, but I've come to quite appreciate it. I no longer have a commute, so my listening time can be limited. By being able to go back and forth, I'm able to proceed with a book even though I'm in a position where I don't have the ability to use the medium I started with. And some books actually improve in the audio version -- especially if the narrator is particularly good. The Ben Aaronovitch books, for example, where the narrator's Ghanaian accent is perfect for the Peter Grant character, who is also Ghanaian. Another is Jeeves and Wooster. They're fun reads, but even better in the audio book.
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I've listened to a couple of the short stories and one novel from Aaronovitch (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith narrated) and they are fantastic. In that case, I think I am ok with it because that was the only way to read
A Rare Book of Cunning Device so I had to and got used to it.
I normally use long commutes (which for me normally means drives from the Portland area to eastern Oregon or the Seattle area) for books I wouldn't otherwise read. I find that I enjoy some non-fiction more in an audiobook than I do in paper/ebook form. The drive portion of my daily commute is ~ 5 minutes and I just try to catch some news during it. It's the train portion that I get most of my reading done in.