5 reasons why Audiobook is better than reading!

It’s worth starting an Audiobook

Ram Pulipati
3 min readJun 15, 2022

I recently (in the last 2 weeks) started listening to the Audible book.

For the past 10+ years, I have been reading books. I always had inertia to move towards audiobooks because I always thought books are meant to be READ. But finally, after 7–8 years I started listening to audiobooks and I have been liking them better than the reading.

Let’s address these and more

  1. You might think by listening you may miss something.
  2. Traffic signal !! while you’re driving and you missed listening to something?
listening vs reading? PC:edgy.app

Reasons why I started liking audiobooks:

1. They finish 50x faster

For example, the current book I am listening to “The Atomic Habits” is about 320 pages. I have just 1hr audio left to finish the book. Reading takes a lot of distraction. Usually, a 320-page book takes me around 2months to finish.

a 320-page audiobook = 5hr of listening

I hear audiobooks when I am driving or doing repetitive tasks or doing tasks that take a lesser pie of my mind or walking in malls.

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Ram Pulipati
Ram Pulipati

Written by Ram Pulipati

10yrs exp as a PM, Dev and Co-founder. Studied, lived & worked in US, Canada & India. Want a FREE PM resume consultation? -> www.linkedin.com/in/janakiramvit.