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- Are Audiobooks as Good for You as Reading? Here’s What Experts Say (2018) https://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/ 5 comments
- Audiobooks: The rise and rise of the books you don’t read http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200104-audiobooks-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-books-you-dont-read 9 comments books
- Apple released some free audiobooks read by celebrities https://new.itunes.com/r?v=2&la=en&lc=usa&a=tgukfeq7v7mdry%2Bvc9vf1qimp4jjm6%2F4o3atdns4egwn3jnzijbj%2Bthyienry4uk2ni7axy9mjr2h%2Fgf684njiufgrffsj8ydubqwwokkigho%2Becgldw%2B%2Bb6qdqaghhvwormgussfcw22ug2ljhf9q%3D%3D&ct=ai7g0e0y5n 33 comments apple
- Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say http://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/ 270 comments books
- Reading Books Is on the Decline But Audiobooks Are Rising https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewired-the-psychology-technology/201610/reading-books-is-the-decline-audiobooks-are-rising 14 comments books
- Audiobooks and the Celebrities Who Were Born to Read Them http://flavorwire.com/268020/audiobooks-and-the-celebrities-who-were-born-to-read-them 18 comments books
- Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/22/reading-listening-activate-same-brain-regions/#.XWCatp9OmEc 3 comments books
- Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/22/reading-listening-activate-same-brain-regions 191 comments books
- Is there a difference between reading a book and listening to an audiobook? http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/415 21 comments askscience
- Understand New Languages from Reading: Listen to Audiobooks in the Language while Reading a Translation http://users.bestweb.net/%7Esiom/martian_mountain/!%20L-R%20the%20most%20important%20passages.htm 5 comments books
- I Built My First Android App for Reading Ebooks and Audiobooks – And It's Free! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ricdev.uread&pcampaignid=web_share 7 comments sideproject
- Yusei Kikuchi has been appointed as an audiobook ambassador. He reads 200 books a year, half of which he listens to on audio. https://sportsbull.jp/p/1915432/ 62 comments baseball
- It's over, it's finally over! I've finished all 5 Game of Thrones Audiobooks, read by Roy Dotrice. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140914213234/legomessageboards/images/a/a7/Finallyover.jpg 13 comments books
- Does listening to an audiobook provide the same intellectual advantages or rewards as actually reading the book? http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html 536 comments books
- Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter - Stories stimulate the brain in the same way, regardless of whether they're read or heard. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/audiobooks-or-reading-to-our-brains-it-doesnt-matter 35 comments books
- FYI: 'MOX' audiobook (read by the author Jon Moxley) was released today on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/MOX-Audiobook/B0B2F9BFCW?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&shareTest=TestShare&share_location=pdp 72 comments squaredcircle
- End of audiobook snobbery as scientists find reading and listening activates the same parts of the brain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/08/19/end-audiobook-snobbery-scientists-find-hearing-listening-activates/ 875 comments books
- “Ok Google, read my book”... Introducing audiobooks on Google Play https://www.blog.google/products/google-play/ok-google-read-my-book-introducing-audiobooks-google-play/ 23 comments books
- Books in the public domain that are read by volunteers , thus making them audiobooks for free! https://librivox.org 48 comments books
- Stephen Fry reads Eugene Onegin in English—free audiobook http://fryreadsonegin.com/ 3 comments books
- Amazon offering 1 free Audible Audiobook - Hear Doyle Brunson read his own incredible life story 🤠 https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Godfather-of-Poker/dp/B0C87CLMWF/ 2 comments poker
- Is there a selfhosted way to achieve sync between ebooks and audiobooks? I want to be able to pick up and listen to an audiobook from the point of where I left off reading in my ebook. https://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Kindle-Audible-Whispersync-Voice-Review-Best-Both-Worlds-48082.html 9 comments selfhosted
- I want to know if any of you have tried reading a book while at the same time listening to that book as an audiobook version ? I found this article and would want to experiment and see if it can improve my retention for reading. https://www.digitalbook.io/blog/read-and-listen-at-the-same-time/ 7 comments books
- Hillary Clinton Reads Trump's 'I'm F-----' Quote from Mueller Report — Could an Audiobook Be Next? https://people.com/politics/hillary-clinton-reads-trump-quote-from-mueller-report/ 13 comments politics
- "The Secret Life" Is Available as Audiobook During Trial on Audible - Andrew O' Hagan Spends Months With Craig Wright - Very Interesting Read https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Non-fiction/The-Secret-Life-Audiobook/B071KCN82M 7 comments btc
- Ice-T reads D&D audiobook; pronounces it impossible to read. http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5384000/ice-t-records-dungeons-dragons-audiobook 15 comments books
- I keep losing my spot in my audiobook because I like to go between reading and listening. Any hints/advice? http://self.book 6 comments books
- Librivox - free, volunteer-read, public-domain, downloadable audiobooks http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/ 5 comments freeculture
- How to access thousands of free audiobooks, thanks to Microsoft AI and Project Gutenberg. Available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the free audiobooks use neural text-to-speech technology to read to you in a human-sounding voice. https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-to-access-thousands-of-free-audiobooks-thanks-to-microsoft-ai-and-project-gutenberg/ 11 comments upliftingnews
- How to access thousands of free audiobooks, thanks to Microsoft AI and Project Gutenberg. Available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the free audiobooks use neural text-to-speech technology to read to you in a human-sounding voice. https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-to-access-thousands-of-free-audiobooks-thanks-to-microsoft-ai-and-project-gutenberg/ 19 comments books
- this is financial essential, Bitcoin cash can easily be applied. read: The Richest Man in Babylon Full Audiobook https://youtu.be/wglndSWrvsM 11 comments btc
- PSA: Mil Nicholson's (free) audiobook readings of Dickens on Libivox are gold dust https://librivox.org/reader/2026?primary_key=2026&search_category=reader&search_page=1&search_form=get_results 8 comments books
- Apple Books offers ‘stay at home’ collection of free read-alongs for kids, cozy mysteries, and audiobooks https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/22/free-apple-books/ 12 comments apple
- Did you know you can download thousands of free audiobooks from Librivox? Here is a list of 50 more popular free classic audiobooks. Librivox is a site where you can download recordings of books that are in the public domain read by volunteers. None 4 comments books
- Did you know you can download thousands of free audiobooks from Librivox? Here is a list of 50 popular free classic audiobooks. Librivox is a site where you can download recordings of books that are in the public domain read by volunteers. None 201 comments books
- One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks - About a quarter of Americans haven’t read a book in any format in the past year. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/25/one-in-five-americans-now-listen-to-audiobooks/ 27 comments books
- Major book publishers have filed a copyright lawsuit against Audible over a new speech-to-text feature that uses machine learning to transcribe spoken words so users can read the text while listening to an audiobook https://www.techtimes.com/articles/245119/20190825/audibles-speech-to-text-feature-prompts-lawsuit-from-book-publishers.htm 55 comments books
- Audiobooks are as good as physical books: fMRI study finds listening stimulates the brain in almost identical ways as reading. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/08/16/jneurosci.0675-19.2019 34 comments science
- This is an excerpt from the upcoming memoir "Where Am I Now?" by Mara Wilson. I really enjoyed the story, and you can also hear her read an audiobook excerpt here. I'm excited for this book and I wanted to share this. http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/mara-wilson-where-am-i-now-excerpt 15 comments books
- TIL that E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web among other amazing children's novels, needed 17 takes to read Charlotte's death scene in the audiobook recording because he kept crying when trying to read it. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139790016/weaving-charlottes-web 7 comments books
