The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. In which format do you read the most books? Let me first state, as I assume is apparent, that this is not at all a scientific survey. I do love the scientific method, and I like to look at methodology, but this is simply self-reporting of a small and undeniably unusual group of respondents… First, when I look at this question: “In which formats have you read a book in the past 12 months? ” e-books are fewer than half of the responses. Pretty evenly split, actually, were paperbooks and audiobooks. I would say I have underestimated the amount of audiobooks for my readers. Regular readers know I’m not a big consumer of audiobooks myself, although I can see the attraction. In terms of the industry, electronic versions of audiobooks have been one of the bright spots for some time. Second, my readers report reading a lot more e-books than p-books (paperbooks). This data was done by GSA C onte nt Generator D emoversi on. (Image: https://picography.co/page/1/600)
That’s part of what started that post. Pew had suggested that p-books were twice as popular as e-books… About 30% of the respondents said they read about 1 e-book a week (25-52), the most popular answer. The second most popular response (28%) was that they had read more than 52 e-books in the past 12 months. In terms of paperbook formats, more people were reading mass market paperbacks (the smaller ones) than I might have guessed… ’s a segment that’s been rapidly declining in market share, pretty much supplanted by e-books. My guess here is that many of those read are ones that my readers already owned, rather than new ones that they purchased recently. I left off a couple of options in the poll (that happens), and they both related to early generation technology. One was listening to audiobooks on EBRs (E-Book Readers). Amazon had eliminated audio from EBRs some time back… Kindle EBRs. Another one was listening to audiobooks on CDs.
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I probably should also have included the original popular version, “books on tape”… Speaking of how my readers play their audiobooks, that was a lively topic in the comments on the blog recently. Amazon’s own Fire Tablets at this point (I expect it to come later) might have been because Amazon figured that not that many people listen to audiobooks on tablets who Sneaker Don’t have a SmartPhone option. That was silly of me: after all, www.solitaryisle.shop I generally listen to text-to-speech (TTS), which is my preference, on my now discontinued Kindle Fire HDX 7 in the car. For one thing, I’d say the tablet generally has better battery charge life doing the same sorts of functions as the phone does. I haven’t really tested that recently, though. What do you use to play your audiobooks? A SmatPhone was highest, which is what I would have guessed. Next a tablet…and then I’m glad I included Echo devices! external frame
I thought there might be some SmartWatch users…I’ve suggested Amazon could create a wearable for audiobooks, TTS, and so on. I also thought some might have used a TV streamer… Fire TV is so popular! However, how you would do it isn’t that obvious… ’t have a category for it on the Fire TV homescreen, for example. One way to do it would be to listen to audiobooks on YouTube… YouTube, and there are a lot of audiobook videos there. You can also use the Alexa functionality to listen to your Audible books… I’ve tried that with Dracula, too. Audiobooks on TV seems like a great way to go to me… An Echo device can do that, sure, but I assume more people have TVs at this point than Echo devices. Anyway, interesting information…thanks for answering! You’ll see how to find books to read online, rich information about authors, comparison shop prices for e-books, and so on. I was writing about audiobooks above, and, well, who knew?
Okay, I don’t want to be naïve again… …available for free at Spotify (you need a free account). These aren’t all public domain (not under copyright protection) books, although many are. Some are read by the author (Langston Hughes, T.S. I would guess there are hundreds of hours of entertainment here. What happens when an e-book store closes? I’ve said many times that I am more confident that my e-books will be read by my descendants after I’m gone than that my p-books will be. I’m speaking specifically of my Kindle books… I’m hard-pressed to see a situation in which that valuable an asset would not continue in some way. Either it would become legal for us to break the DRM (Digital Rights Management) because a “decoder” is not commercially available (you would have to download the books first…but I wouldn’t expect Amazon to shutter with no notice), or someone else would “buy the accounts”. Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand.
