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Unscripted: Answering Your Audiobook Questions (Aug 2026)
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Unscripted: Answering Your Audiobook Questions (Aug 2026)

How audio sticks in our brains, how we multi-task while listening, how we choose our audiobooks, genres that work best for us on audio and more!

In Unscripted, some combination of Catherine, Chrissie, and I riff on a general bookish topic in a very loose way.

This month, Chrissie (@ChrissieWhitley) to answer your questions about audiobooks.

  • Why would we choose audio over words?

  • Does audio stick with you better than reading words?

  • What the “heckity” are you doing that you can multitask and pay attention?

  • How to choose an audiobook (not only do you have to choose a book, you have to choose a narrator??)

  • Genres that work better for us on audio.

  • Do you feel like if you don’t like it, it was the performance or the book? How do we rate a book balancing these 2 elements?

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