eBooks & Audiobooks - week 11 prompt response

The first audiobook I ever "read" was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. We listened to the novel on a family trip to Florida over the span of two days and two nights on the way to Florida to stay with my grandparents when I was roughly 12 years old. Today, I listen to audiobooks all the time-- I have a half an hour commute to the library I work at, and that ensures me an hour daily in which I can listen to an audiobook.  In fact, sometimes I am unable to sit down and read anything other than an audiobook in the course of a day. Most of the time now, I will have an audiobook checked out, as well as copies of the same book on eBook and a physical print version of the book.  I love this combination of multiple formats because it allows me to rapidly consume literature. One of the big appeals to eBooks is that you an adjust the appearance of the font, make the text bigger or smaller, and sometimes eBooks include music, which may or may not appeal to someone reading them.  Basically, all of these innovations in the way we read are conveniences that we did not have when I was a child.  eBooks and audiobooks allow us to experience literature in a very unique way.  With audiobook, a narrator can greatly effect your experience with a novel-- and sometimes, an audiobook is an improper choice for a certain novel.  Reading "The Sound and the Fury" on audiobook, for example, is a poor choice because of the unique way in which the author manipulates language-- that sort of experimentation doesn't really translate to narration, and you won't fully understand or be able to appreciate what the author is doing. However, some books-- such as the Harry Potter series-- are fantastic on audiobook, and the narrator's performance only enhances the experience. The ability to manipulate the text with eBooks is helpful with patrons who have poor vision, and for a library, an eBook copy of a novel is great because one individual copy can service the normal print crowd and the large print crowd without necessitating multiple copies of a book.  As long as you pay attention and put some care into your choice of book when it comes to eBooks and audiobooks, the experience with them will be mostly positive-- and the other great thing about these two formats is that multiple works can be downloaded to a device like a Kindle or an iPad for vacations and trips that don't consume the same amount of physical space in your luggage.  It is possible to get a poor narrator for an audiobook, but other than that, there aren't too many drawbacks to experiencing a great novel in either medium.