WHY I LOVE AUDIOBOOKS

I love to read, however as most people with a job would find it is hard to find a decent amount of time for reading.

I had never listened to audiobooks and always assumed they were only for the visually impaired  (as it seems a more easily obtainable thing than books in Morse) and maybe for children with busy parents who don't have time for bedtime stories.

I could not have been more wrong...

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Two years ago I was working on a hand drawn animation as my final project for uni.
There were four of us making a seven minute animation, each second had 12 drawings so that meant we had roughly 1200 extremely similar and repetitive drawings each to draw in about three months, and it was TEDIOUS! One of my friends introduced us to audiobooks and I have to say they were a life saver; we listened twice to Stephen Fry reading the whole Harry Potter series (i love Harry Potter) and from then on it has been a great love story between me and audiobooks.

They are brilliant and allow you to listen to books while doing any sort of job, like cleaning, cooking, knitting, drawing.. you name it.
You essentially have someone reading you a book while you get on with your life!


Don't get me wrong, I still love to read, but it's just such a great thing to make tedious tasks go faster and learn as well! Some audiobooks is worth buying, especially if you're into modern fiction, however you can listen to classics for free thanks to www.librivox.org

At the moment I am listening to Mansfield Park, read by Karen Savage, who is one of my favourite readers as she has a wonderful British accent and is a really good reader.

One of the downsides of Librivox for me is that it's an American website so most of the readers are American, and while that's great when listening to "the Great Gatzby" or  "Catcher in the Rye" I will NEVER EVER be able to listen to Jane Austen in an American accent...Sorry, I just can't.