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The Key Ingredients of a Good Audiobook
A narrator reveals her tricks.
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Audible just made hundreds of titles completely free to help during coronavirus crisis
Free audiobooks include novels narrated by Thandie Newton and Dan Stevens
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Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It?
A few years ago, when people heard I was a reading researcher, they might ask about their child’s dyslexia or how to get their teenager to read more. But today the question I get most often is, “Is it cheating if I listen to an audiobook for my book club?” Audiobook sales have doubled in the last five years while print and e-book sales are flat. These trends might lead us to fear that audiobooks will do to reading what keyboarding has done to handwriting...
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Listen and weep: 'Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement'
As Arya Stark watches from the crowd, tears streaming, King Joffrey toys with her father Ned Stark before executing him in front of a baying crowd. This scene from Game of Thrones is harrowing in any medium – but a new University College London study has found that audiobooks are more “emotionally engaging” than film and television adaptations.
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The lost pleasure of reading aloud.
‘I have nothing to doe but work and read my Eyes out,’ complained Anne Vernon in 1734, writing from her country residence in Oxfordshire to a friend in London. She and her circle of correspondents…
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To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’
As is required of all women in their 30s, I am in a book club. At the first meeting of this group, one poor unsuspecting woman mentioned that she had listened to that month’s selection instead of reading it. That, the rest of the group decided together, is definitely cheating. Never mind that no one could exactly articulate how or why it was cheating; it just felt like it was, and others would agree. She never substituted the audiobook for the print version again (or, if she did, she never again admitted it).
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt By Michael Lewis
#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.
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Wink Poppy Midnight By April Genevieve Tucholke
Every story needs a hero. Every story needs a villain. Every story needs a secret. Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous. Wh
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Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success By Angela Duckworth
AudyBooky has 1,000's of audiobooks all 100% free to stream on your PC, Iphone, or even tablet device. It's like YouTube for AudioBooks!
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LibriVox Treasure Island Audio Book
Happy Holidays /t/audiobooks !!!
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Episode 1, George Orwell - Animal Farm - BBC Radio 4 Extra
A pig called Old Major has a dream and speaks to the other animals.
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Terry Pratchett's Eric, a BBC Radio 4 audiodrama adaptation
I just found out that BBC radio 4 aired the audiodrama of the Discworld novel Eric last week. I thought I'd share it here with you all.
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Diamonds Are Forever on BBC Radio 4
A radio drama of Ian Fleming's fourth novel Diamonds are Forever, free to stream on BBC Radio4's Iplayer website.
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Member Only promo for Audible: 2 for 1 credit on Pimsleur language learning books.
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Danielle Steel Sale | Audible.com
Late 1930's Germany: Best friends Alex von Hemmerle and Nicolas von Bingen, titled childhood friends with neighboring estates, are witnessing the rise of Nazism when Nick's father reveals the long-buried secret of his son's partial Jewish ancestry. Warned by highly placed friends to flee, the only treasures Nick and his sons can take are two dazzling Lipizzaner horses, gifts from Alex. These powerful and majestic creatures become their ticket to a new life waiting across the ocean...
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Thinking about getting into audiobooks?
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