Great advice Jonnie. I'm 71 and was only reading a couple of books a year until I discovered the Libby app last spring. I take long walks every day so now instead of music or listening to political podcasts (that just piss me off and made me more stupid) I am reading full books and getting smarter every day. I hope you have more videos on the way.
Don’t forget about resources like the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books, as well as various ways to listen to audiobooks through Librivox, UA-cam, and other platforms. Personally, I enjoy both forms of reading, and AI also helps translate foreign languages into my own language. This opens up access to centuries-old books, providing valuable insights into human thought.
If you haven’t finished a Libby book by the time it expires, you can turn your kindle on airplane mode and it can’t be “taken back” until you reconnect. Fair warning though, if you use good reads and care about your daily “streaks”, you’ll lose your streak even though you’re reading because it can’t gather the data on airplane mode.
Discovering that my library offers also audiobooks through Libby was a game changer to me and it helped it me a lot too! I read/listened to 'The Bee Sting' by Paul Murray, a huge 600+ pages book. Without help of audiobook I wouldn't have finished it. Now I am looking to get a Kindle, because reading of my phone isn't for me
All great info Thanks Jonnie! Unfortunately all the cool Kindle ecosystem does not work in Canada 😭 But at least our Libraries do usually connect to Libby and Hoopla! So audiobooks on long walks it is! 😁 The reason our Libraries do not connect to Kindle is that Koobo (owned by Indigo Books and a direct competitor to Amazon selling books) has an exclusive rights with all the Libraries in Canada... So you'd have to own a Koobo for renting books from a library 😭
Reading, by definition, is to absorb stories and ideas from written texts. Visually deciphering text is just one way of reading. Visually impaired people read by feeling braille. No matter how you choose to do it, reading facilitates comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary development-all of which can be achieved through audiobooks. Therefore, audiobooks facilitate reading.
Great advice Jonnie. I'm 71 and was only reading a couple of books a year until I discovered the Libby app last spring. I take long walks every day so now instead of music or listening to political podcasts (that just piss me off and made me more stupid) I am reading full books and getting smarter every day. I hope you have more videos on the way.
Don’t forget about resources like the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books, as well as various ways to listen to audiobooks through Librivox, UA-cam, and other platforms. Personally, I enjoy both forms of reading, and AI also helps translate foreign languages into my own language. This opens up access to centuries-old books, providing valuable insights into human thought.
If you haven’t finished a Libby book by the time it expires, you can turn your kindle on airplane mode and it can’t be “taken back” until you reconnect.
Fair warning though, if you use good reads and care about your daily “streaks”, you’ll lose your streak even though you’re reading because it can’t gather the data on airplane mode.
Stellar tip, appreciate that! I’ll have try it myself
Just rent from Library Genesis instead :)
“My dad” …cuts to Ali Abdaal. 😅
Discovering that my library offers also audiobooks through Libby was a game changer to me and it helped it me a lot too! I read/listened to 'The Bee Sting' by Paul Murray, a huge 600+ pages book. Without help of audiobook I wouldn't have finished it. Now I am looking to get a Kindle, because reading of my phone isn't for me
There is literally no difference between a person who can’t read and a person who doesn’t read! Think about that!
Truer words have never been spoken!
One has time but lacks the skill. One has the skills but lacks the time. They are not the same.
There literally is a difference
Book slumps 😂
@@RealGingerTea Neither person learns and gets the benefits of the written word.
Great video Jonnie! You had me hooked and intrigued to keep watching from the start. Totally agree that Kindle makes reading more accessible.
WOAH, what? You only have 43 subs??? Brother, this content is the type of quality I'd expect from an account with thousands, if not 10s of thousands!
Appreciate ya! Thanks!
Thank you for that website. Really good gem!
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All great info Thanks Jonnie! Unfortunately all the cool Kindle ecosystem does not work in Canada 😭 But at least our Libraries do usually connect to Libby and Hoopla! So audiobooks on long walks it is! 😁
The reason our Libraries do not connect to Kindle is that Koobo (owned by Indigo Books and a direct competitor to Amazon selling books) has an exclusive rights with all the Libraries in Canada... So you'd have to own a Koobo for renting books from a library
😭
Hey thanks for sharing!
What a terrific video!
Hoopla app is great too
I have used it here and there but for some reason, it keeps telling me the daily borrowing max has been reached:/
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Thank you! 👋🏻
Can I take you on a date?
audiobooks are no reading
I’m so sorry
Why not? It's just a different way to consume information or story.
Reading, by definition, is to absorb stories and ideas from written texts. Visually deciphering text is just one way of reading. Visually impaired people read by feeling braille. No matter how you choose to do it, reading facilitates comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary development-all of which can be achieved through audiobooks. Therefore, audiobooks facilitate reading.