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Which do you prefer: Audiobooks, E-books, Printed editions?

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Strigoi

Strigoi

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Just want to say hello. I am in my early 40's. Happily married with a gorgeous wife and two grown sons. I work full-time and go to school part-time. I enjoy reading, writing, photo editing for amusement, fishing, hunting and camping.

I am one among a sea of die hard SK fans. I got into audiobooks while stationed overseas and now I am hooked on the format. Everything I have heard from SK on audiobook is well-produced.

I look forward to reading your thoughts and ideas.
 
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Dana Jean

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Welcome Strigoi! I personally love audios, especially the ones Steve narrates himself. The best way to know exactly how Stephen heard those words in his head as he wrote them. Emphasizing in the right places, it is the best! But, I can love all formats.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Hi Strigoi...welcome to the board. I've only had one audio...two...Duma and On Writing. I fidget too much to listen...seems there's always something to distract me if I try to listen. Work is noisy so that time is out. I think the (newer) truck plays CDs so I could try then, driving. I read a bunch...books or kindle. Kindle is a space saver, has some other nice options, highlighting something, being able to access those highlights on the kindle or on-line...that search function...you can plug in a word a phrase and look for it.
 
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Strigoi said:
Just want to say hello. I am in my early 40's. Happily married with a gorgeous wife and two grown sons. I work full-time and go to school part-time. I enjoy reading, writing, photo editing for amusement, fishing, hunting and camping.

I am one among a sea of die hard SK fans. I got into audiobooks while stationed overseas and now I am hooked on the format. Everything I have heard from SK on audiobook is well-produced.

I look forward to reading your thoughts and ideas.
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doowopgirl

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Welcome to the board. I voted print books, but I'm equally happy with my Kindle. As others have pointed out it saves space and has some handy functions. I've never liked audio books because I like the action of moving my eyes on the page. The story just doesn't sink in as well by listening.
 
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Neesy

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Strigoi said:
Just want to say hello. I am in my early 40's. Happily married with a gorgeous wife and two grown sons. I work full-time and go to school part-time. I enjoy reading, writing, photo editing for amusement, fishing, hunting and camping.

I am one among a sea of die hard SK fans. I got into audiobooks while stationed overseas and now I am hooked on the format. Everything I have heard from SK on audiobook is well-produced.

I look forward to reading your thoughts and ideas.
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Welcome to the SKMB Strigoi :frog::cheerful:
Fishing, hunting and camping - sounds like fun!
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Aloysius Nell

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EDIT: Sorry, Steven Weber read IT, not The Stand. They are grouped in my head because they are two of my favorites, two of the longest, and I have both on audio. Sorry! So, listen to IT.

Personally, I don't like Mr. King's reading voice a whole lot. Most "bit" actors do a better job at creating different voices for different characters than authors do.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Another benefit of the kindle...I think this second kindle I have is also called "kindle fire"...and I assume this benefit is found in other e-readers: story I'm on now, All the Pretty Horses, has a buncha Mexican Spanish. Some you discern from context. Others you can highlight the text, several boxes pop open, one a translation of the text. That used to aggravate me...reading...usually one of the Big Names in Literature...and they'd throw in some French? Laissez les bon temps rouler! Well...usually not that...usually something like etre veebee! Or maybe it was raison etre je suis tres bette! Once in a blue moon a previous reader knew what that was and made a note at the bottom. But more often than not I didn't have a clue and I tried to ignore the idea that began to brew...that I'd never amount to much until I'd taken up space in a foreign language speaking class. So I signed up for Latin and developed an attitude. Some people were not meant to be scholars.
 
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