Do you know even if you don’t have time, you can still read books anywhere and anytime? You must be wondering how? Audiobooks can help you in that matter. Have you ever listened to an audiobook? Well you should, therefore, I have come up with an idea of sharing some of the key benefits of listening to audiobooks.
I am not an avid audiobook listener, however, I have started listening to some of them and I can confirm that they are an excellent choice since we are occupied most of the time with our work. I had a target for reading books and started listening to audiobooks while traveling. As I travel from my home to work, I daily use my time by listening to audiobooks.
An Audiobook is a collection of audio resources grouped by a reading order, metadata, and resources, all contained in a manifest. Audiobooks are the recordings of books or magazines that are being read aloud. Audiobooks help in building and enhancing vital literacy skills such as fluency, vocabulary, language acquisition, pronunciation, phonemic awareness, and comprehension.
After I started listening to audiobooks, I found some of its features that benefitted me and hence here I am sharing those with you.
10 Benefits of Listening to Audiobooks
In this fast-paced world, most of us are occupied almost the whole day and don’t have enough time for ourselves. Even if we have some spare time, we don’t use that for reading books due to laziness. However, you can still have access to these books using audiobooks and it also has several benefits. Some of those include:
1. Convenience of Audiobooks is Unmatched
Audiobooks are handy for people who are continuously on the flow and don’t have enough time for themselves even to read a decent book. Apart from that, audiobooks don’t take your space and you can just connect your mobile to the earphone and listen to books anywhere anytime.
2. Audiobooks Help Students Gain Knowledge
Listening to audiobooks is to use your busy time to learn something new. The learnings of an audiobook are the same as a paperback. If you listen with even 70% attention you can get most of the things the authors are trying to tell you. You’ll benefit from the identical quantity of understanding if you are soaking up the emotional tone of the audio.
3. Audiobooks Help in Concentration
Active listening is a crucial talent that is absent in most of the individuals. Since our brain constantly functions, our mind gets distracted from the main task to other things. Focus is one thing that is absent in us from childhood. While studying most of us go into our dreamy world and cannot focus on our studies.
Audiobooks help us to focus and concentrate for a longer amount of time. This will help everyone to focus on their tasks in the future more effectively. This is one of the best techniques for increasing attention span.
4. Audiobooks Reduce Negative Thinking
Negative thoughts are dangerous for our health as many people have developed mental health issues due to them. Some people have even gone into depression. Meditation decreases negative thoughts and keeps our mind fresh however, we cannot meditate almost all the time. We can help ourselves by focusing on other tasks.
By listening to audiobooks, one can say goodbye to negative thought processes and instead focus on positive thoughts.
5. Audiobooks Help to Sleep
If you are having difficulty in sleeping at night, listening to audiobooks might be the way for you. As you listen to the voice of the narrator, it relaxes your mind and eyes and actually helps you to a deep sleep which is kinda difficult while watching electronic devices.
Electronic devices like TV and mobile render your sleeping ability as they defer the release of melatonin and ultimately disturb your sleeping cycle.
6. Audiobooks Improves Pronunciation
When we read by ourselves we don’t know if what we are thinking or reading is correct or not. We may be pronouncing some words wrong and would be completely unaware and can make a fool of ourselves in front of others.
However, if we listen to audiobooks with attention, we may learn the correct pronunciation of words, and phrases because the narrator correctly reads them.
7. Audiobooks Increases Comprehension
While reading yourselves, you may find it harder to understand some lines due to long sentences or difficult words. However, if we use audiobooks and a physical book with us, we can understand the difficult sentences in a matter of minutes with the help of the narrator.
When we listen, we connect each spoken phrase with the previous word till the meaning of the sentence is apparent. we are able to listen and re-listen to the sentence until the narrator’s point is clear.
8. Audiobooks Helps With Time Management
Being able to read books while doing our chores, exercising, driving, etc. is a win-win situation. With such a busy schedule nowadays, we are never able to complete our reading lists as they take a huge amount of our time and we cannot do anything during that time as reading ebooks or physical books requires focus.
Considering all this, audiobooks have been a blessing for us since they allow us to work as well as read our favorite books.
9. Audiobooks are Affordable
Audiobook services are super affordable. Also, you do not need to have a huge bookshelf. One can listen to loads of audiobooks for free or at a nominal cost.
10. Audiobook Increases Imagination
The voice of the narrator indulges us completely in the story that we imagine ourselves in the situation. Our creativity as explained by the narrator is taken to another reality which in turn also increases our imagination power. It is one of the best tools to get rid of our daily problems and escape our reality.
The best part is that some narrators add sound effects to make it more interesting for the listeners. You can get to learn more mysteries and imaginary worlds that you may never be able to discover by yourselves if you don’t listen to audiobooks.
Conclusion
In this article, we discussed some of the amazing benefits of audiobooks. There cannot be a certain answer as to whether audiobooks are better or reading a physical book as that depends on an individual’s view and perspectives.
However, in my opinion, I prefer audiobooks in some of the genres as it has endless benefits such as being affordable, less time consuming, helping in concentration, convenient, providing entertainment and joy helping in better pronunciation of words, and giving a more realistic environment as we listen to the narrator’s voice.
