You might be an audiobook lover if…

  • you’ve left audiobooks in your car an had the plastic container for the cassettes warp around the tapes.
  • you’ve run out of audiobooks to borrow at your library.
  • you’ve listened to books longer than most avid readers have read.
  • you welcomed the day Audible gave you a chance to listen to an audiobook without having to change tapes or CDs.
  • now that you listen on your smartphone, you can’t move the car until the audiobook resumes playing.
  • if the Bluetooth pairing for your smartphone has trouble, you’d rather mess with that before driving off than just do the 5 minute trip without an audiobook playing.
  • you look forward to getting stuck in traffic when you have a *really good* audiobook playing.
  • half of your monthly data usage on your phone is downloading new audiobooks (because you couldn’t possibly wait for a wifi connection to download.)
  • before going on a trip, you download more books than you pack changes of clothes.
  • you use the sleep timer on the Audible app so that you don’t accidentally “read the whole book” when you fall asleep.
  • you’ve forgotten to set the sleep timer and accidentally finished the same book several nights in a row.
  • you feel guilt over telling people you “read” an audiobook.
  • …but then again, Les Miserables took 60 hours to listen to so IT TOTALLY COUNTS!