Thanks to the audio book technology, learning can now be done without reading/writing skills. Audio books are so useful in today's world also because of the great help they are to people who want to read novels for entertainment sake but couldn't spend the time reading.
Since "listening" to an audio book one can still get the information contained therein as they would get if they "read" it, many would these days buy an audio book format of their favorite book, rather than the physical book format. It's now increasingly difficult to find a book title that doesn't come in audio book format and physical book format.
The fact that an audio book and a physical book would contain the same information makes it a lot wiser to "listen" to a book while driving daily than to allocate blocks of time to read that same book in normal book format. Apart from gaining more time listening to audio books one would gain lots of knowledge as well.
Since humans are naturally lazy, children, the middle aged and oldies now prefer listening to audio books than reading. Book publishers have confirmed that they spend far less producing audio books than they do hardcover or paperback; I suspect this might adversely affect the future of normal hardcover or paperback books.
Also, if there were more audio books than hardcover and paperback books, more trees would be saved, therefore nature will be conserved without cutting back on knowledge acquisition. Many people say they prefer audio books because they can listen to audio books and do their household chores at the same time.
The problem that most people face with hardcover or paperback books is that they can't be read while it's dark, but with an audio book, you can listen and absorb even in the dark. I'm sure you are now convinced about the many advantages of audio books and why you too have to start buying and listening to them.
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