Let’s talk Bookish is a weekly meme hosted by Aria @ Book Nook Bits and Dini @ dinipandareads where each Friday bloggers write blogposts discussing the topic of the week, sharing their opinions and spreading the bookish love by visiting each other’s posts.
This week’s topic is: Immersive Reading – suggested by Leslie @ Books Are the New Black
Prompts: Immersive Reading is when you simultaneously listen to an audiobook while reading the physical or digital book.
Do you do any immersive reading? Do you prefer it or is it not for you? Do you think it’s a good way to get everything from a book? Is there a genre that is better to do this with? What are your recommendations for immersive reading?
Discussion:
I have yet to give immersive reading a try, mostly because I listen to audiobooks when my hands are already occupied with something else – driving, housework etc. I also tend to listen at a speed much faster than my eyes and brain could probably manage physically (or digitally). I know I could slow my listening down but I feel certain that if I was to do that my mind would wander – limiting the ‘immersion’.
There have been books however, that I have felt would have been perfect for this. Usually the self-helpy type books that inspire or heal in some way. Many times I have been driving to work listening to an audiobook narration and something profound is said and I have no way of annotating it to revisit later. I mentally make a note but by the end of the book, the specifics are all but forgotten. All that is left is the gist and a need for me to purchase the physical book down the track for a reread with sticky tabs and highlighters.
That’s a good point about annotating or remembering something when you’re listening to an audiobook. I know there are ways of bookmarking a part of the story, but I’ve never really got into a flow or habit with that. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction but the self-help books sound like they’d be good to do immersive reading with! Great post and thanks for joining LTB this week 🙂