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The New Reading

The New Reading: Downloadable Audio Books An audio book is the recording of a person or persons reading aloud the content of a book. These audio books are also known as talking books or spoken books. There are 2 main types of audio book unabridged and abridged. Unabridged audio book is narrated word for word. It has the exact same content as its book counterpart. Abridged audio book isn’t narrated word for word. It’s more like someone telling you a story.

Audio books have been available for decades; it started out similar to the music industry from tape then CD and now in digital format. Thanks to the boom of the Internet technology and especially the high-speed Internet connections downloadable audio books are now much more popular. Since you can download it 24/7 anywhere in the world. The best thing is that you can access your audio books as soon as you purchase them. You can easily transfer your audio books to your mp3 and take them anywhere with you discreetly.

The biggest benefit of an audio book is in the power of words. Reading is good, don’t get me wrong but hearing those words usually has more impact on you. Since we, as a human being, start learning from our ears. The best example is when we learn to speak as a child. We learn to speak not by reading but by listening to other then we repeat what we’ve heard. Since hearing is our first skills, therefore, we tend to retain more of what we’ve heard than what we’ve read. This is the basic principle of effective language course! You may have heard that “Words cut deeper than swords.” Perhaps you may have experienced it yourself, I know I do. Maybe there is a rhyme or a jingle from ads or songs that you can’t get them out of your head. If these ring a bell, then you know exactly how powerful word can be. That is why I believe listening to audio books is more effective than reading a book. Plus you can also listen to audio books while you’re commuting (listening in a car won’t give you a headache like reading does), doing household chores such as dish washing, or simply relaxing. If you don't have time to read a book, now you can listen to a book or books easily with downloadable audio book. Perhaps you could possibly retain more of its content than traditional reading. If you haven't try it please give downloadable audio book a try.