#listening to audiobooks

[sasha4books]

[In Progress] 2025

January

National Hobby Month

February

National Library Lovers Month

March

National Reading Month

April

D.E.A.R. Drop Everything And Read Month

May

National Family Reading Month

June

Audiobook Appreciation Month

July

National Anti-Boredom Month

August

National Coloring Book Day

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National Library Card Signup Month

October

National Medical Librarian Month

November

National Family Literacy Month

December

Read a New Book Month

[notherpuppet]

Disorganized thoughts about the boyfriends in the big city AU 🏙️📻🍎

-they go to a lot of plays and musicals together. Lucifer gets really emotional during “Jersey boys”

-they order the lobster bisque from their fav soup shop & eat it in the park

-al doesn’t have a phone, he has an iPod shuffle

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[consumedshadow-mysticmc]

[everydaylouie]

BATTLE FOR REDWALL

[wherekizzialives]

Living with Hearing Loss: The Questions Edition

As this is the last post in this blog series I first of all want to thank you for staying with me this far1 and again urge you that, if you do have a question that you haven’t yet felt brave/comfortable enough to ask that you drop it in the comments of this post because I am absolutely happy to answer anything.  I feel that I should also reiterate that I’m only speaking for myself here. These…

[sabh0]

shitpost bc apparently doing the requests isn't working against artblock, sorry chuuya is currently searching for his hat

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

[foxdoodles]

a little screenshot study/style experiment

[hvezdnastreka]

A date with Cardassia

[mooskobold]

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

[sasha4books]

[sableeira]

one flesh, one end

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every second of the day I’m plagued by locked tomb thoughts. does anyone have a suggestion how to fix it?

[peonyblossom]

save me audiobooks. save me

[hellenhighwater]

okay, settle an argument for me. I'm being told it's weird to listen to an audiobook while simultaneously reading a different book. Do you do this? Like, audiobook in your headphones, unrelated book being read at the same time, not just alternating which you're working on by listening to a chapter, then reading a different chapter.

[spookygibberish]

Last year I listened to a worldbuilding podcast that was very queercore hopepunk (2/3 of the hosts were straight...) and I have kind of come to detest the ideology, as well as all these nitty little microgenres. the podcast itself was not bad per say, but it was so utterly bland and the kind of writing advice that almost seems to discourage people from making challenging or transgressive art via prioritization of escapism as the ultimate goal for a fantasy work + the repeated adage that "realism is no excuse". You can set out to make a cozy, fluffy, fantasy world where people never behave in evil ways, are ever selfish or cruel, and never fight over resources and ideology, but if your love for human beings is conditional on human behavior only ever being perfect and good all the time then idk if you actually have much love for human beings at all. it's the kind of advice that encourages easily digestible fluff over all, and if you actually internalize it your never going to get out of it the power to write something like The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness, or Parable of the Sower. is all.