Lightning talk that discusses the benefits of listening to audibooks, both for entertainment and self-improvement purposes

1. Stan Jónsson
5/18/2017
LEARN AND HAVE FUN BY LISTENING TO AUDIOBOOKS
DTO Lightning Talk

2. HOW DID I GET INTO AUDIOBOOKS?
A way to keep my sanity while dealing with a one hour commute in LA in 2001

3. SINCE THEN…
➤ Around 200 hundred books
➤ Typically 1-2 a month

4. WHAT WAS MY FIRST AUDIOBOOK?

5. WHERE TO GET AUDIOBOOKS?
Reserve library books and
download for free via the app
In a pinch reserve CDs and rip to your phone/mediaplayer
$15 a month

6. WHEN TO LISTEN?
During your commute
Doing chores
While exercising
In bed During spacewalks

7. TWO MAIN CATEGORIES OF BOOKS I LISTEN TO
➤ Entertainment
➤ Pure fun - Destresser when brain needs a break
➤ Self Improvement
➤ Work
➤ Health
➤ Parenting
➤ Hobbies

8. ENTERTAINMENT
I tend to find an author I like and then read their entire body of works
➤ John Grisham
➤ Michael Crichton
➤ Dan Brown
Icelandic, crime fiction
➤ Arnaldur Indriðason
➤ Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Popular young adult (man to admit it :)
➤ Stephenie Meyer
➤ J.K. Rowling
➤ Suzanne Collins

9. ENTERTAINMENT - MY FAVORITES

10. SELF IMPROVEMENT - WORK
➤ Tends to be soft-skills books
➤ Programming does not translate too well to audio

11. SELF IMPROVEMENT - WORK - MY FAVORITES

12. SELF IMPROVEMENT - OTHER FAVORITES
If you are raising
a teenage daughter!
Very entertaining. May cause
you to take up running!
The science of nutrition
and exercise
Understand and
transform your habits

13. BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE