Nerdfighteria discussion

For the most part, I prefer reading the book myself than listening to the audiobook for two main reasons:
1.) It usually takes me way less time to read than to listen to the audiobook
2.) I can't stand it when the audiobook's narrator doesn't match the voice I imagine the characters to have. Even worse is when the narrator mispronounces words/names.

However, there are times when I do enjoy audiobooks. For example, I'll listen to the audiobook while I'm driving or engaged in another activity that requires me to put my book down, but I simply can't wait to find out what happens next.

Do you have a love/hate relationship with audiobooks like I do?

As a follow-up question: which audiobooks can you recommend? I can't bring myself to listen to "Looking for Alaska" nor "Paper Towns," but I quite liked "The Fault in Our Stars."

I love audiobooks for when I'm walking or going to sleep. Somewhere where I just can't have a physical book in front of me. I'm with you on reading being much faster, but sometimes I feel like it helps me figure out how names should be pronounced. I'm currently going though Game of Thrones and before listening I had no idea how names like Daenerys are said.

So yeah, while I like audiobooks I still like to read whenever I can.

I read Game of Thrones and also listened to the audiobook. I loved Roy Dotrice's expressive narration, but I cringed every time he said Petyr and Brienne!
I've also listened to the audiobook of Kill Order because the print/ebook weren't available and I just have to read every book in The Maze Runner series...

I originally got introduced to the idea of audiobooks last July during the BookTube-a-thon. The first one I ever listened to was thirteen reasons why by Jay Asher. I had been told by friends that ta woman and a man read it; something that I had never considered before.
After that point, audiobooks became a major part of my reading. If I'm cleaning my room, surfing the internet, sewing, knitting etc. ( anything that I need my hands for but not my mind) It'll be guaranteed that I'm listening to an audiobook.
Though I think that audiobooks have taken away a bit of my interest for physical books. It has to be extremely gripping for me to actually read a book now-a-days. I'm so busy that I don't have the time to take time out of my day to read. And that is where the magnificent audiobook comes in. I love them.

I definitely prefer reading, but i've never really tried audiobooks.

I think if there was an audiobook king/queen, it would be the Harry Potter series audiobooks. I listened to the first three when I was in second grade, and that was how I began the series. Even after reading the other books on my own, I still checked to other audios out of the library because they are so. freaking. good. There are some books whose audio books I dislike (Percy Jackson series, for example, because I disliked the narrator), but I really love audiobooks. I like reading more because I like being able to hold the book in my hand, but I just love stories and books, and I'll take them in any form I can.

Another good audio book is the Northern Lights one, because it's narrated by the author but has a cast to do the characters.

I both like reading aloud and being read to, so audiobooks are nice because I can hear other people read to me. I think a really nice career would be to read audiobooks.

I personally don't like Audibooks I mean it's not reading. It doesn't sound right to say oh yeah that Audibooks was great. I prefer book books.

I agree. I don't care if other people find it easier or not but i just will always like reading from pages and not ebooks too. I really do like but that audiobooks can allow so many different people to read books