I started listening to audiobooks- Here is why?

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Books play important roles in our life. Every day we pick some book and read. In our childhood, we read many comic books and that brings us to read more and more books.

As you will grow you don’t have that much time where you could dedicate to reading books. It’s the hard and harsh reality, we blurred in the human society where you may not able to find time for yourself.

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As technology, humans evolved we face many distractions and don’t have the patience or attention span to enjoy reading a book.

But there are many formats that you could consume also, like,

• audiobooks
• digital books (kindle)
• video books (books are converted into videos)

But, to be frank you cant enjoy listen or watching a book.

Listening to books instead of reading them is like drinking your vegetables instead of eating them. -Naval

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Why I am listening to audiobooks?

It seems I am not satisfied with listening to or watching books, so why I am listening to audiobooks?

The answer is time and information. We don’t have that much about of time to consume 130 million books.

There are lots of best and masterpieces out there but we can’t be able to read if we spend every book reading.

Some books are have repeated or single concepts in their books but those books help us to construct our base.

This is actually partially true! I started listening to audiobooks because you spend at least a week reading a book but whereas you can absorb the concept of the book in 6–7 hours.

If you think, the book has lots to say and absorb the information, you can read the whole book after listening to audiobooks.

After reading or listening to a book you can read the summary of the book to understand deeply about books.

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Benefits of listen

A good book doesn’t let you be distracted until it’s finished.

For sure there are lots of benefits of listening to audiobooks also like,

1. It saves so much time
2. You can figure out the best book and read slowly the book.
3. You can know the concept of a book fast
4. if you don’t love reading.
5. If you spend so much time on traffic

Loss of listening to audiobooks

There are some losses that why don’t have much love for audiobooks.

like,

1. absorbing the book: How much you listen to a book, you will be started fading the emotion a book has.
2. You will float with information but you can’t able bring the concept of the book into your life and think deeply about it.

These two are the major reason for the loss of listening to audiobooks unless reading the book.

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Where you can find an audiobook:

1. Find on amazon (audible)
2. Find on youtube for free: Just search the book name and “audiobook” on the side and search.
3. Find on podcast platforms (Spotify, apple podcast, etc): just search the name of the book + “audiobook” and search
4. Search on the Internet Archive, where you will get audiobooks and books in pdf format also.

You will find must of books for free using the second, third methods and in 4th method and you can buy them on amazon and listen on audible.

Verdict:

Books allow us to make a pause in our life and live another life for some moment and force us to think about the concepts of the book. Where you love to read books or listen to books, the main goal is to absorb the lesson or learnings for the books.

Some of the books I think that you might love reading or listening are,

• Ikigai: The secret for living a long and happy life.
• the richest man in Babylon: This has a great story, I loved it while I listening to the audiobook.
• Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Deep Work