6. I’m no longer in college and if I miss a detail, I won’t fail the test. And I don’t have to write a paper or book report.

5. I can listen in the car, when I walk my dog, or need to relax from work.

4. Many narrators are terrific. For instance Robin Miles (the N.K. Jemison books), Adjoa Addoh (several by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), and Campbell Scott (Hemingway)!

3. Listening to an Audiobook (ou Livre Audio en francais) reminds me of being put to bed by my mom or dad, their soothing voices coaxing me off to sleep. Come to think of it, I’m the daughter of the Spencerport Library Lady.  My mom made a profession of reading to 3 and 4 year olds.

2. You can take audiobooks out of the library for free and have them for 3 weeks without ever going to the library 

1. How else would I have gotten through Moby Dick? Madame Bovary? And the Illyad? And did I mention that I listened to Campbell Scott read “For Whom the Bell Tolls” at least twice.  I could not get enough.