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The snag is there is only a certain amount of digital copies available for each title, so you might have to wait for one to become available. If you are a member and download the Borrow Box app, you will have access to an incredible selection of audiobooks, all free of charge. Your first port of call should be your local library.
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There has never been so much choice, both in what to listen to and how to listen to it. We are currently living through the Great Golden Age of Audiobooks. Or I can start on the rest of his narration back catalogue, which includes the complete Sherlock Holmes - or, more gently, Winnie the Pooh.Latest releases, all-time classics and pandemic parables to keep your ears busy on your endless walks
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I can’t imagine I’ll tire of the Harry Potter series at any point soon, but it’s a pleasure to know that when I do, I can just download the Calm app - where Fry is a sleep-story narrator.
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I’ve tried other Wizarding World stories, like The Tales of Beedle the Bard, but, as it turns out, they’re narrated by movie cast members, like Bonnie Wright, and therefore lack exactly one-half what makes the Harry Potter audiobook experience what it is: Fry. So when the pandemic hit, it was a comfort to be able to jump right back into the action of Goblet of Fire.” Though she’s halfway through the series, Philosopher’s Stone remains her favourite - “I can practically recite along with Stephen Fry like some kind of advanced mediation.” It is a meditation of a sort: Stephen Fry’s plummy voice, combined with the absorptive world of Hogwarts is incomparably calming. “I tend to do an annual relisten of the whole series around Christmastime every year, but serendipitously, I didn’t finish my 2019 binge. My friend Chelsey (a Strategist contributor and former librarian), says she listens to the series from start to finish each Christmas. She told me “I always listen to Harry Potter during times of upheaval - Book 6 ( The Half-Blood Prince), feels particularly apt.” She listens when the mood strikes her, but adds that the HP audiobooks are “particularly excellent for sunbathing.” When I asked my book club what everyone was reading, my cousin Hanna-Lil (who works in Financial PR) replied with a screenshot of The Prisoner of Azkaban, on Audible. I’m not the only one who’s relistening to Harry Potter. While some scenes - like Sirius’s house arrest in the Order of the Phoenix - creep too closely into reality, the familiarity of the books is so cosy - and it’s a comfort to know I have a back catalogue of roughly 115 hours to dip into. It serves a similar function now: It’s engaging enough to drown out the pre-sleep dread spirals, but familiar enough to fall asleep to. On a recent road trip around Tasmania, The Half-Blood Prince was the only thing I listened to across 850km of wilderness driving: interesting enough to keep me alert, not too diverting to distract me. I’ve had the books on rotation ever since. Once I finished book one, I used each month’s credit to build up the library.
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The Harry Potter books were the reason I signed up for Audible four years ago: You get a book for free as part of the free trial. But when it comes to bedtime, I crave reassurance, familiarity and comfort: Harry Potter. So far, I’ve dabbled with Claire Danes reading The Odyssey - as well as Neil Gaiman’s Norse Myths.
With audiobooks, I can listen passively (while making dinner), or dreamily (while on my daily walk). When I’m reading I get sucked into the world on the page - and it’s disorienting to bob in and out, according to my concentration levels. So I’ve been turning to audiobooks instead. And even then, when I’m reading, the world of the Before creeps in so noticeably: While reading a detective thriller by Jane Casey, I recoiled when two characters hugged. I pick books up and put them down again, or space out while reading - and forget an entire chapter. I am a fast and not-too-picky reader, but I’ve been finding it hard to enjoy reading during all this.