Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Try Audiobooks

1) Because Americans have been sitting too long within easy reach of potato chips and liquid candy, and they need to go outside for some fresh air and exercise before their heart attack, which is coming up right after the next commercial break. (Audiobooks can be also enjoyed while walking, jogging or “while planting bulbs,” too, as author Jayne Ann Krentz suggests.)

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2) Because we all need to read more, but can’t seem to find the time, and this multi-tasking aspect of audiobooks provides a solution, although there may be no solution for sports addicts glued to ESPN.

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3) Because you can save a tree by downloading an audiobook off the internet. Trees are great fans of audiobooks, just like cows who recommend going vegetarian.

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4) Because the most important organ in the human body in the brain, which runs on imagination. Something you can’t get watching a TV screen, or computer screen. 

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5) Because the movie playing in your mind is always more entertaining than seeing the half baked adaptation that emerged from some Tween Hollywood screenwriter’s Freddy Kruger shaped cookie cutter.

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6) Because audiobooks are performed by actors (and everyone knows actors are more important than non-actors, right?)

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7) Because eyestrain also adds to your potential health care costs, (and, remember, Medicare won’t be around by the time Congress finishes reading all the fine print in any bill they might agree on if they could read. . . or add.)

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8) Because if you read a print book while on vacation you might miss your plane, or the boat, or that girl in the bikini who just winked at you. (Not to mention the scenery. In which case you could run straight into a tree, as one reading jogger we once saw do).

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9) Because, like Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, The Donald, and others, authors often read their books themselves, (although, granted, some of them just want to hear their own voice.)

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10) Because trying new things gets you out of any rut or habitual bad habits, and doing something-–ANYTHING-–differently can force change to happen.  --J. Lowe