What is a REAL book?

@Natasha_Jay

sorry, could not resist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book

@lobingera @Natasha_Jay

This

@Natasha_Jay I love audiobooks, but I must admit I don't retain half as much from them as I do from the text version.

@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay everything has pros and cons. I love old paperbacks but I cannot read one whilst doing the washing-up

@Natasha_Jay a real book is a book that can't be confiscated from you when your license expires.

@MatthewNewell @Natasha_Jay Yeah, I use audiobooks and podcasts for chores and walks, but anything I want to remember, I will read from a book or my eReader.

@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay

Have you tried both? Either simultaneously or not?

I used to record myself reading study materials and listen back whilst reading. Not sure it was efficient as I have always had pretty good recall anyway - but the process was diverting as it was studying/not studying at one and the same time.

Since dawn of easy availability of commercially available / professionally narrated books I have never really wanted to learn subject deeply enough to try

@Natasha_Jay

In Swedish accessibility circles there is the term "svartskrift" (direct translation "black writing") as opposed to audiobooks and braile.

I think this is a term that should get a wider usage in these times of alternate ways of reading.