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The life of the audiobook star: As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day
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- Title
- 'Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts': the secret life of the audiobook star
- Authors
- Tim Dowling
- Published
- Nov 16 2019
- Word count
- 3613 words
My mom is extremely into audiobooks, so I tried them a couple times when I was younger. I just couldn't get into it. Listening to them while doing something else distracted me from the book so I had to rewind every couple of minutes and doing nothing while listening to them felt like wasted time - I could just read the books instead and I'd be faster too! Then I got into podcasts which were perfectly fine to listen to for me (missing a couple words or sentences isn't as big of a deal with them), and I kinda got used to listening to something while running errands. Now I can concentrate enough on what I'm listening to and still do whatever I'm doing. (Excluding things where I have to concentrate on the task like coding, reading articles, etc.). My audiobook usage has spiked since then! Additionally, moving out, getting a job, and working out has left me with less time than I'd like to read, but doing chores, grocery shopping, cooking, and pretty much anything I do sports wise (with the exception of going for a swim) works perfectly with a voice in my head
It's amazing how an audio book can be made or broken by the narrator.
If the narrator doesn't do distinct accents and talking styles, a fictional book is almost impossible to follow, as there are no other audible clues to when one person stopped talking and the other one started.