My name is Mike Burton and I started this website, because of my love for books. Books are amazing. They are very tactile, they have their own feel and smell. But on audiobookwave .com, we’re going to focus on audiobooks. Why? You might ask.
Well, I started listening to audiobooks because of tiredness. I was working a full time job as an engineer. I was spending long hours travelling up and down the country in my van. Working a full time job is tiring, but driving as well, makes you dog tired. I was reading my books in bed at the end of the day and falling asleep after a couple of paragraphs at most. That’s when I decided to try audiobooks. I could put them on and have a soothing voice read to me. I found that I was staying awake for more of the story. If I did fall asleep, I was still taking it in subconciously. It’s surprising how much you remember when you’re asleep.
Another reason is failing eyesight. Although I have reading glasses, I find them uncompfortable. I did try large print books, but they didn’t really help with the tiredness. So that’s how audiobooks or talking books or whatever you want to call them, won out.
So audiobookwave is going to take a good look at all aspects of audiobooks and delve a little into other types of books as well.