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Which is better? Read books or listen to Audio books?

Read books: your eyes would get tired, you could take lots of time to read. You can learn grammars.

Audio books: you can finish story way faster, your eyes wont get tired. Maybe it would be hard to learn grammars from this.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Actually, you can't usually finish a book quicker than you can read an audiobook. Most people read far more quickly in their head than an actor reads aloud.

    It depends what you want to get out of a book. If you want to study the story and analyse the language carefully, then of course, you need to read it. If you just want to be entertained and enjoy a good story, or you want to do other things at the same time, then an audiobook is fine.

    I would completely disagree with the idiot who said 'audiobooks are for lazy people'. No, they are not. They are principally for people who want to be told a story while they are doing other things. They're to pass the time while you're driving, to listen to in bed while you're falling asleep, to listen to on a long train journey where reading might make you feel sick, to relax, or to listen to while you're doing some boring physical task. I read a lot. I also listen to a lot of audiobooks - I listen to them while I'm walking to work, since I can't read a book while I'm walking along the street; I listen to them when I've got a long and boring job to do around the house, like clearing out a room or cooking a meal or ironing or painting a wall; I listen to them while I'm doing some other creative hobby like drawing or crafts, and I sometimes listen to them at night when I can't sleep because I suffer from insomnia. None of those things have anything to do with laziness.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It depends on the book. I got Homer's Illiad and Odyssey on Audio books. Originally, those were oral poems and they were meant to be listened to, not read. I read them a few times, but I very much enjoy the experience of listening to the Illiad. I have it on my Ipod and I listen to it everyday. It near makes me cry when it gets to my favourite passages, like the struggle over Patroclus' body or Antilochus telling Achilles of Patroclus' death or Achilles refusing Hector's plea for a pact before their duel. I think in some cases audio books are appropriate, if not better than the books.

    I had never tried an audio book before, I only got the idea when I read in the introduction of my new translation that they were oral poems and that Homer's audience were listening to them, not reading them (I knew that, but it just made me think of the audio book idea).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Audio books enable reading and driving at the same time-- definite plus.

    Also-- there is nothing wrong with preferring listening over reading-- both cater to different learning styles.

    Source(s): English Ed major
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  • 1 decade ago

    reading books is better but I find audio books very helpful when they're commented, specially if the language and the argument are complicated.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    U read and think about a book, so U develop Ur imagination, U listen and think about everything except what U had heard after 10 minutes.

    But that all depends on U are U audioal or visual( how U get information better reading or listening)

    Source(s): Experience
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    5 years ago

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    Why not try listening to the audio version while following along with your copy? You will be twice as likely to retain the material.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'd say you should read the books twice: read each chapter normally once, and then out loud the second time. That way you could learn at your own pace.

  • Jade
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I don't like audio books, I can't focus.

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