To Audible or Not to Audible

A few years ago, a friend gave me a hard time about listening to books.  She asked the question, are you really reading a book if you are listening to someone else read it to you?  I guess she has a point, technically I’m not physically reading but I’d rather listen than not read at all. 

I’ve been reading this week a lot and I have to say, I’m missing listening.  

I LOVE reading and have for a long time. I do it in spurts because, you know, life gets busy sometimes.

AND that right there is why I enjoy listening to books.  I can put in my AirPods and do the dishes or vacuum or sew or work a puzzle or mop and the list goes on and on, and still ‘read’ or listen to a book. 

When I read, I let things slide.  My house work suffers. I get to where I can’t put my book down, so I don’t! 

This week as I’ve been trying to make myself stay on top of the dishes and so on, I’ve wished I had my book on audible instead of on my kindle so that I could keep “reading” while getting things done. 

I started out listening to books on Audible as I drove to visit the kids and I’d get so into the book that I wouldn’t want to stop for any reason!  And sometimes it would take forever to finish if I wasn’t able to finish it on the drive, I’d listen on the way to the store which was usually only once a week or so…

Then I got my AirPods and I got to read while walking or cooking or cleaning and I LOVED that!  

All that being said, sometimes as I’m listening though, I wish I had a hardcopy so that I could underline or make a note.  So… it does have it’s drawbacks too.

Do you listen to books or read.  Are you a diehard one or the other or do you mix it up?  I often have more than one book going at a time.  A hard copy book, a Kindle book and an audible book.  It works for me.  Sort of…

Currently, I’m finishing a series on my Kindle that I started a couple of years ago, the Carly Moore Series by Denise Grover Swank.  I’m finally on the last book and I can’t put it down!  Well, I can when I have to but it’s hard.   

My hardcopy book is a book on Celtic Mysticism and I don’t have an audible currently going but I’m looking at several! 

What are you reading?  Is it hard copy, soft copy, or audible?  

Until Next time heart ♥️ …