{"id":275,"date":"2013-04-30T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-07-09T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T08:22:53","slug":"why-listening-to-an-audiobook-is-just-as-good-if-not-better-than-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/why-listening-to-an-audiobook-is-just-as-good-if-not-better-than-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Listening to an Audiobook is Just as Good (If Not Better) Than Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve talked about the debate between audiobooks and physical books before. Some die-hard reading fans don\u2019t like the idea of a new format for their books, and claim that listening to an audiobook isn\u2019t the same as reading the book itself. My response? I think that\u2019s ridiculous. In fact, my opinions align very closely with those expressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/26\/fashion\/thursdaystyles\/26audio.html?ex=1274760000&amp;en=e53119b8eb7086c1&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\">an article by Amy Harmon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/26\/fashion\/thursdaystyles\/26audio.html?ex=1274760000&amp;en=e53119b8eb7086c1&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/26\/fashion\/thursdaystyles\/26audio.html?ex=1274760000&amp;en=e53119b8eb7086c1&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve talked about the debate between audiobooks and physical books before. Some die-hard reading fans don\u2019t like the idea of a new format for their books, and claim that listening to an audiobook isn\u2019t the same as reading the book itself. My response? I think that\u2019s ridiculous. In fact, my opinions align very closely with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/why-listening-to-an-audiobook-is-just-as-good-if-not-better-than-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Listening to an Audiobook is Just as Good (If Not Better) Than Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}