I normally knit or go for a walk while listening

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    Mostly walking outside or while doing various chores around the house. Oh and also cooking. Basically unless I’m sitting or interacting to someone I’m listening to an audiobook. 🤣

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      Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction or it just kinda varies per the mood? I like nonfiction for mindless tasks so I can feel like I’m doing something productive by learning something

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        Only fiction. I get enough non-fiction by living. And my IT specilization doesn’t really translate into audio learning. I use different mediums for non-fiction like blogs/research papers/seminars/conferences/etc…

        I love exploring new worlds and interesting characters be it fantasy/sci-fi or just general fiction. Also prefer series over standalone books.

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      Besides the advent of the world wide web, I’ve always supposed the proliferation of audiobooks and podcasts has had a fundamental link with the proliferation of traffic jams.

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    Driving mostly, recently playing vampire survivors and listening. I’m about half way through the last in the Beartown trilogy, have you listened to anything good lately?

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      I freaking loved the bear town trilogy

      I’ve mainly been listening to the Percy Jackson series lmaoooo

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        Nice, I should give those a listen sometime! I remember really liking the first book

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          It’s my comfort book series, I’m mainly re-listening right now in preparation for the upcoming disney plus series which I am so freaking excited for. The author has so many freaking books though. My dude WRITES and has a whole freaking Gods of (insert mythology here) universe he’s created. I just know the mouse is looking at that source material they can adapt from and crying quarters

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            Haven’t they tried a series before? I remember fans being unhappy about that, I hope this one is good!

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              Yeah, the original movie was terrible and such a disappointment

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    I’ve never been much of an audiobook listener. However, the few ones I’ve listened to I’ve enjoyed very much. Excellent narration, excellent voice acting. I used to play them while cooking, and then while eating what I had just cooked. Then if I was drinking wine with the food, the experience continued, extending into the horizons of my imagination.

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    Cooking, washing dishes, walking to or riding the subway.