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ButtonsMom2003's avatar

I discovered audiobooks about five years ago and found that the narrator makes all the difference for me, too. I tend to prefer male voices but have also listened to several excellent female voice actors. I use the term voice actor instead of narrator because the really excellent ones deserve the title of actor IMHO. I also often buy audiobooks based on the narrator. 🥰

What really convinced me of the benefit of audiobooks was when I was sick during the Christmas holidays several years ago. I just could not concentrate on reading with my eyes but I found that an audiobook was calming and that's when I really got hooked.

Hoopla and Libby are great sources for audiobooks but my library also gives me access to something called CloudLibrary. I have found even more audiobooks that I wanted on there than on Hoopla and my library only restricts how many you can have checked out at a time instead of how many borrows you get per month like with Hoopla. (Each library has it's own limits on both Hoopla and Cloudlibrary.)

Listening to audiobooks has pretty much doubled the number of books I reach each year. It took me a while but I've finally been able to up my listening speed to 1.4 with just about every narrator and several I can go faster.

I really enjoyed reading your comments about audiobooks! Happy listening!

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Denise's avatar

Glad you've been able to enjoy reading again, even while battling your dog's energy.

I really wish I could get into audiobooks. With tinnitus retraining therapy, I learned to tune it all out, so it's really hard to concentrate.

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