As person addicted to learning and studying I am always exploring new ways to learn faster. I have been big fun of eBooks since I bought my Sony Reader but that one was now replaced with iPad.
Today I want to talk a bit about audio books. Not sure what is the official name. aBooks? First of all – I love them! So now I have it out of my system lets get to facts. They safe your eyes and they save your time. They save your time massively. I can listen to a book which has couple of hundred pages in matter of few days without spending any productive time on it. What I mean is that I usually listen to audio books while I am on the public transport or during my evening running sessions. I usually listen to the book 3 times which allows me to get the data into the long-term memory instead of just the temporary one.
Are there any disadvantages
Yes they are. The books are still not cheap enough. They are far from expensive but lets be honest, it could be lot less then $20 for a book. The distribution channels and cost of production is far far less comparing it with the paper brother.
Another disadvantages comes in place where you actually need to or want to look at the screen/paper. Lets say when you are learning code or looking at some pretty pictures (design books) but for these cases we have eReaders and iPads right?
I know there will be people complaining that nothing can replace the smell of the book or the touch of the washout paper. I agree, these feelings can’t be replaced but if you are reading business book or looking at the latest book about design pasterns in Ruby you might not feel that you need the those extras as much. You would probably miss the traditional book when you are reading some Shakespeare’s book.
I have talked about the space saving before and here it comes again. Having books in digital form does not consume any space in your flat which I love a lot. I can only keep those few really cool design books in my shelf and put the rest of the fast replacing books on hard-rives of my Apple family devices.
