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Hello humans, do you prefer audiobooks or books you can hold in your hand and read?

I like both depending on the book. I have ADHD so I have a hard time making myself read textbooks sometimes, so I use a text to speech app to help me get through chapters when my brain refuses to cooperate which allows me to do something else with my hands at the same time so I don’t succumb to the tedium.

The quality of the voice acting is important more important to me for fiction than nonfiction books, with the right voice I can sit down with my crochet stuff and lose myself in the story for hours, fully taking advantage of the hyper-fixation function of ADHD. I’ll crochet away until my back hurts and my stomach aches because I’ve forgotten to eat in fact.

I also like to listen to more educational types of books in audio format while I multitask. Maybe I’ll listen to a book about LGBTQ+ and various other histories or psychology. I like to either listen to music or listen to audiobooks while I clean or do anything tedious lest my head explode from boredom.

The audiobooks I’ve listened to this week, “Rainbow History Class” by Hannah McElhinney, which I listen to in the evenings for some nightly learning “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus, which I finished and adored, and now I’ve started “Babel” by R.F. Kuang. I have a physical copy of Babel so I can switch back and forth whenever I feel like it. Some settings and scenarios suit different mediums better for me.

I only have a couple of friends that like audiobooks, which is fine, if everyone liked all the same things the world would be boring and lacking sorely in diversity. What do you guys think? Audiobooks or Visual books?