How Audio Books are useful?

Category: Motivation || Published on : 2020-09-11 10:38:11 || Author : Sonali Dangi 6 1179

One who has immense love for reading must not be keeping self in parameters. Especially when it comes to paperbacks, kindles, or audiobooks. Every sort of medium to read books has its pros and cons but if we move towards the digital world then kindles and audiobooks are spreading its interest lovers around everywhere.
The demand for kindles and especially audiobooks are getting increased rapidly. Audiobooks, simple and easy to use just like its name. Audiobooks have its many benefits that help the reader not just in reading, I mean in listening to the book but also give many other things to get a better command over reading and concentration.
So many readers have their minds full of doubts and questions regarding the Audiobook reading when the traditional method of reading a paperback is still so classy. And the question which arises is not wrong as well, why to choose an Audiobook when you have the luxury to read and feel a paperback? So, here, this article is to clear all your doubts and to answer all the questions of our beloved readers. Let’s learn the benefits and usefulness of Audiobooks: -
1. Helps you in comprehending – When you pick a book to read or choose an audiobook to listen, both lead you in the same direction. Your journey or paths are going to be different but the destination is one.
According to research when we read a paperback or a kindle, our mind starts to work in the direction of filling the voids of the blankness on paper or the marks which have been mentioned on the papers of the book such as page no, symbols, blanks, etc. These distractions may disconnect the link and connectivity of a reader to the words or message of the author of the book.
When you listen to an audiobook, you don’t have to keep these distractions in mind as there will be just listening not any kind of preview of words. The words or the message of the author will directly enter into your mind through your ears. The mind will not get any kind of outer distraction to get disconnected. Audiobooks help you in comprehending the book faster without much outer distraction which might happen through a paperback.

2. Does not bind you – Audiobooks are a great choice especially for those who tend to multitask the things. Paperbacks bind you at a place and occupy your hands with books whereas audiobooks have no such limitation. You just have to plug your ears with headphones and you can listen to your audiobook whenever, wherever, however you want.
You can listen to your audiobook while doing some other works as your hands are free. You can listen to it while operating any machinery, while exercising, while doing any other household work or any kind of your office work which does not need your complete attention.

3. Affordable – If it comes to afford then the clear winner is audiobooks. These are not that expensive as we get paperbacks. Even many audiobooks are completely free of charges. You can listen audiobooks through many apps, so many apps are available on play store which provide you many good books and paid apps are also not much expensive in the comparison of paperbacks.
If you come under such category of people who don’t like to share books with other then audiobooks are rather better choice for such people. Audiobooks can’t be completely shared. You can share its mere links. In paperbacks you shall be bound to share the whole book.

4. Keeps your choice private – Having a mind to think and to make choices may create different choices which varies person to person. When you read a paperback, you can not hide your choice from the outer society which may sometimes put you where people may judge you. But audiobooks help you to make a private choice which does not allow anyone to make any judgement on your choice. It’s completely up to you to choose a kind of books, i.e. science fiction, classic, fiction, non-fiction, self-help, novel, romantic novels, horror novel etc.

5. Gives more learnings than a book – When you read a paperback, you get to learn from the book. But choosing an audiobook may help you in different spheres of learning. Audiobooks create a kind of imagination faster than paperbacks as it gives sound to the words which has emotions, vocal nuances, sarcasm, and many more things which come from the person speak in the audiobook.
Audiobooks help you in learning correct pronunciation of the word. While reading a paperback we sometimes don’t know the correct pronunciation or sound of the word which may create a wrong sound in mind whereas audiobooks help you in learning correct sound of the word. It improves reading accuracy and expands vocabulary of the readers up to a good extent.

6. Increases listening skills – Listening is the first language skill we all learnt very first. Since childhood we have been grown up by listening stories from grandparents, teachers, parents. The habit of learning things through listening is from our childhood which had evolved us in a good manner. We still remember the stories of our childhood. Researchers also agree to the result that audiobooks help in increasing critical listening and develop a good skill of learning and remembering things in mind. Audiobooks are much helpful for those who face difficulty in reading, they can simply enjoy audiobooks and enjoy reading and learning.
Reading is such a blissful habit which gives its utmost learning in any medium. And it sometimes varies on individual’s choice to prefer an audiobook or a paperback or even a kindle. Here, we learnt about the benefits one may get from audiobooks. Now it’s your time to make a choice and start to listen a good book or to read a good one.

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Happy Reading!