I have recently been getting back into audiobooks and was discussing them with a friend when this question came up. Obviously picture/comic books, manga and the like would not work in the format, but what other kind of books would not work in an audio format?

I was thinking House of Leaves for the obvious reasons, but is there a book you can think of that narratively or otherwise would not be well translated to audiobook?

OR a book that would need to be read in a certain way in order for an audio format to work?

  • Logan_Maddox@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    To me it’s the exact opposite. If I stop to think about stuff, I lose where I am in the book and make myself more confused. Plus, if it’s words on a screen, it feels much more passive to me.

    With audiobooks, it feels like it’s someone talking or explaining something to me, and I naturally pay more attention to that than to stuff I read, so even if I do have to pause to reflect a bit, it’s much easier for me to pick up where I left off with an audiobook.