Yes, yes, I know. We don’t “read” audiobooks. We listen to them.
But audiobooks are, first and foremost, written. And listening to an audiobook might not be the same experience as reading a book, but the words are the same. Unlike, say, watching a movie or TV series based on the same book.
Personally, I’m not an audiobook fan, but that’s because it takes longer to listen to the book than it takes me to read it. I am definitely an ebook fan, and there are three main reasons I’ve converted from print books to ebooks over the last decade:
Availability
Ebooks are easy to buy, and appear on my Kindle within seconds.
Price
Ebooks are cheaper than paper books. A new release from my local Christian bookshop costs around USD 20. That same new release costs no more than USD 10 as an ebook. But there are hundreds of great indie authors selling their ebooks of USD 3 to USD 5.
Print Size
It’s a function of age and years in front of a computer, but I now need computer or reading glasses. But the Kindle has the handy ability to increase the print size at the click of a button. I’ve tried using the same technique in paper books, but it doesn’t work …
