{"id":149,"date":"2013-04-28T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T09:09:47","slug":"radios-the-ancestors-of-audio-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/radios-the-ancestors-of-audio-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Radios, the Ancestors of Audio Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"old-radio\"Remember when you were young – only a child at the peak of curiosity – and you loved that big, black box which told such beautiful stories? What did it matter what its name was? You were at the age when names, nouns, words, and phrases were all of little importance.<\/p>\n

That Big Black Box<\/h2>\n

What mattered were the vivid adventures you took part in whenever that box began playing. A captivating voice would talk with you, to you, describing otherworldly adventures that you could only imagine, but of which you were now a part. In a pleasantly odd way, you were part of all the adventures narrated by the box. Because imagination was enough. Your <\/strong>imagination was enough. You would close your eyes and lay still in your favourite armchair, listening to the story as it was unfolding in front of your eyes as if in a fairytale…<\/p>\n

This was your childhood. These were your dreams. The stories that the big black box could tell were unparalleled. Who needed images? Who needed movies? You would wrap yourself in the silence and became the dreamy prisoner of a fairytale world.<\/p>\n

You knew it, that big black box. You eventually found out that it\u2019s called a radio<\/em>, and it has the magical power of knowing history\u2019s best stories.<\/p>\n

What Were the Best Vinyl Disk Stories of History?<\/h2>\n

It depends on who you\u2019re asking. Of course, scientists will tell you scores and statistics. But we don\u2019t measure stories\u2019 greatness by statistics now, do we?<\/p>\n

Now, children will tell you fairytales are the best stories of all. Maybe adults will answer that they no longer have time to let themselves become slaves of a good story so they have no idea what their favorite story genre or book is.<\/p>\n

I will tell you that nowadays, the best stories are the audio ones.<\/p>\n

Audio Books – Are They Worth the While?<\/h2>\n

How many books did you read in the past year? Not that many? A lot? \u2018Meh… somewhere in between\u2019?<\/p>\n