“Let There Be Audio Books“
By: Bucky Benson

In the modern world, people are always in a hurry. They rush to and from work, the gym and the grocery store and rarely have time to sit down and enjoy things. From this rush comes an idea that only a busy person would think of: audio books. Amazing tools, wonderful toys and great time savers; audio books are all of these things and more. Or are they, instead, things that simply allow us to ignore the great classics and lose ability to comprehend what we read? These questions and answers are designed to teach about audio books, explain what they are, why they‘re useful and where the future of audio books may lead.

What is an audio book?

An audio book is nothing more than a book that has been recorded into an audio format. This is done by a person reading the book aloud while a recording device of some sort records their voice. While it‘s true that the term “audio books“ only refers to complete books that have been recorded, books aren‘t the only thing that are put into audio format. Other than books, the most common things put in audio format are things like crib notes, speeches and lectures. However, books are by far the most common non-music thing to be put in audio format.

Who created audio books?

It‘s difficult to pinpoint a specific person and say that they came up with the idea of audio books. Once the technology existed to record sound easily, there‘s no doubt that many people thought of the idea and shared the idea with their friends. What is known is that the first known audio book was made by author David Sanchez Juliao. In 1975, he recorded a Spanish audio book entitled “Por qué me llevas al hospital en canoa, papá“. Over the next few years, Juliao recorded several other audio books and the popularity of audio books began to soar.

Aren‘t audio books for lazy people?

Not at all. Most people who use audio books are very busy people. They have things to do during the day, such as mothers who need to keep the house and take care of the children or business people who must rush from meeting to meeting and they don‘t always have time to sit down to read a book. Instead, these people use audio books to combine tasks. They listen to the book while they‘re driving to and from soccer practice or to and from business meetings. In this way, they can enjoy their favorite books and still have time during the day to do everything they need to do.

Audio books are used to help children learn to read?

Most certainly. It‘s very well known that dealing with something with more than one sense can help you pick it up more quickly. In the case of children‘s books, an audio book can help a child pick up the words both by hearing, and by seeing. Since they‘re seeing the word and hearing how it‘s used, both by itself and in context, this can help a child learn to read twice as quickly as they might otherwise. This is how audio books can help a child learn to read. With that in mind, it‘s almost the exact opposite of lazy to buy a child an audio version of some of their favorite books.

How does the narrator manage to read the book without any mistakes?

Truth be told, they don‘t. Audio book readers certainly try to limit their mistakes as much as possible, of course. They do this by familiarizing themselves with the book, reading it several times themselves before recording themselves reading it aloud. But mistakes happen, even to the most skilled reader. The way these mistakes are fixed is in studio. They will take the recording, edit out sounds and spaces they don‘t want and sometimes even edit in sounds they think should be there. The finished product is the audio book that‘s published, which invariably sounds like there were no mistakes made.

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