We are a Shruti and Smriti Sabhyata after all. Audiobooks are the future - a thread.
“There are many ways of reading a book, not telling others what you’re reading everyday is one of them”, I added this as a comment on a post of a certain highbrow female who would make it a point to share quotes from books thrice a day with a #NowReading tag.
I have always considered reading and writing, a solitary thing. And if your mind is pre-occupied with the thoughts of updating your social media feed, you can’t read. Or write.
But for once, I’ll break my own rule and tell you what I read in the last 2 months. Read is probably not the right word, I listened to these books in the last 2 months. A personal record of sorts. 
I have a certain nostalgia (strictly a communist trait) with books too, so graduating to audiobooks was not easy. But when I did, there was no turning back.
We are a Shruti and Smriti Sabhyata after all. Our ancestors weren’t expert copiers, they passed information to the next generation through Shruti (hearing) and Smriti (memorising). I’ve noticed that the recall value of Audiobooks is super high.
Also reading books needs a lot of free time. You can’t read while driving or filling an excel sheet. But you can listen to audiobooks while driving, filling excel sheets and cooking (all of which I do a lot).
So if you are nostalgic about hardcovers and paperbacks and are unwilling to graduate to audiobooks, I’d say give it a try, it’s totally worth it.
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