Audiobook

Today I downloaded Audible. Amazon has been trying to get me to start listening to audiobooks for over a year, so I finally decided to try it out. However, a free month subscription with free audiobooks helped to make that decision.

So far I am enjoying the ability to listen to a book while I do other things--this is a very nifty thing to me.

I have always considered myself a very good reader, and my grades since 2nd grade have reflected as such. One activity I've always seemed to have issues with is listening. Not only listening, but listening, paying attention, and then recalling what I had listened to. Having downloaded Audible (and listening to a book as I type), I do believe listening to audiobooks may help me to improve on my listening skills. 

What I am currently listening to:

"The Good Girl" by Mary Kubica

How far I am:

Almost to chapter 4.

Worth it?

So far...most definitely worth it.

Hopefully, Amazon will let me keep all the free books I downloaded when I cancel my subscription at the end of the free trial. So far, I seem to really be enjoying this, and I recommend others to try an audiobook. One thing must be known, though--real books have a certain air to them that can never be replaced. 

Audiobooks are great (as far as I can tell so far), but I hope no one ever forgets how amazing real books are. I hope no one ever forgets the smell and feel of printed books. It's not always just the story that brings the book to life; sometimes, the physicality of a book is what really takes the words off the pages and floats them through the air.