How does /lit/ feel about listening to books vs reading them?

>>8437542
Why not both?

I'm currently listening/reading the Iliad

They're two different translations, which means I'll definitely learn the dumb Roman god names

>>8437542
if it's poetry, it's fine. poetry was meant to be recited. if it's prose, you should be reading the pages as you listen.

>>8437542
They're both completely different methods of reading a book and you'll get a different experience with an audiobook than if you read it yourself.

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I came here to ask this exact question.

I really want to read/listen to some Neil Gaiman cause I think I'd like him. I much rather lay down in the dark and just listen before bed.

>>8437579
American Gods and Caroline. Read or listen?

>>8437547
>Iliad
>Roman god names

>>8437594
Read and play some music in the background.

this...is a librivox recording...all librivox recordings are in the public domain :)

>>8437607

But then I gotta turn on my bright room light, and pay for the book, and if i want a dim light i gotta buy that. instead of just torrenting the audiobook.

>>8437618
>he doesn't have an ereader with a backlight
>his phone can't stream YouTube "best of [classical composer]" playlists

scrub

>>8437542
it's cool for nonfiction and easy prose before bed. but if you really want to enjoy reading something, you need to subvocalize. listening to an umberto eco right now; v. cozy.

>>8437611
fuck you

>>8437625
>using "best of [classical composer]" playlists
absolute pleb-tier autism

I'm indescribably upset about this

>>8437635
stay mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUx6ZY60uiI

>>8437625
>>8437635
listening to classical music is so indescribably pseud that i hope you both get pegged

I'm upsetti because it's plebbish

>>8437634
librivox is a lifesaver for me especially as a literature major reading late at night. it keeps me on task and helps me plow through material without stopping. especially books that I really don't want to fucking read.

>>8437643
There's nothing worse than a brainlet trying to downplay classical music.

>>8437648

>Librivox
>pointless bumper on every chapter

Why is every decent idea in opensource ruined by this sort of thing.

>>8437666
Eh it doesn't really bother me. I usually take the time to set the book down and get a quick stretch.

I find audio books are great for trashy stuff to get me to sleep, or even, lower tier stuff.

> Donna Tart
> Hunger Games
> Stephen King
> Michael Faber

Would never be arsed to read ^ but while falling asleep is great.

>>8437666
Autism

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>>8437542
A book is always fine to read but an audiobook depends entirely on the narrator. And it is hellish to listen to a mediocre narrator trying to pronounce unpronounceable names, speak with a dozen accents for a hundred characters.

Btw where do you get your ebooks after the demise of the usual suspects?

Audiobooks are fucking awesome. I can't even count the number of hours I have spent listening to audiobooks.

For those of us with actual jobs, it's awesome, get paid while being educated/entertained.

I know a lot of /lit/ sneers at audiobooks because they are pretentious hipster faggots, but being able to do other shit while still listening to a book maximises your productivity while absorbing and retaining the same content.

The only bad thing is narrators. Some narrators are fucking dreadful which makes it borderline unbearable, but a good narrator is fucking dank.

>Tfw I can't even really remember what I did on any given day, I'm just on autopilot listening to a fun book

Feels so fucking good man. Especially when you work a trade and have minimal customer interaction. Though inevitably some health and safety douchebag will tell me off for wearing earbuds on a job site, hate those cunts.

I listen to stuff at work. Books and podcasts mostly. I agree with the poster above, but also because my job requires a lot of reading and research out of the lab, so reading for pleasure is out the window

>>8438449
Go back to plebbit

>>8437594
I didn't like the American Gods audiobook, but I'd already read it so it did the thing where everything just feels uncomfortably different from how it sounded in your head

>>8438449
Only listen to audiobooks if it's genre fiction and you don't cherish your time to read something good.

>>8438652
Eat shit faggot.

>>8437643
It's pseud if you're only doing it to come off as "cultured" and don't actually have any interest in classical music.