Audible is free
- Abbey Colucci
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 4, 2020
If anyone likes audiobooks, Amazon's audible company has made their entire children & YA catalog free for the duration of school closures.
Concerned that audiobooks aren't "real" books? Well, science has proven that, to our brain, listening to books is the same as reading. I know, crazy. You can read an annotated bibliography here or know that a researchers in a 2019 study,
compared brains when [subjects] were listening and reading [the same story], showed that words tend to activate the same brain regions with the same intensity, regardless of input.
I also made an infographic and I will share because I don't get many opportunities to share my audiobook infographic:

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