HOLMES: I'm going to play you a clip of my favorite audiobook of all time. To demonstrate to you - you're going to understand what I'm saying. And a lot of the time, I will choose them over reading on the page. They're about the separate pleasures of a great narrator performing a great book. They're not about times when I can't read on the page. For me, audiobooks are not primarily about convenience. MARTIN: I want to understand, like, because people aren't commuting as much, which is when, I would imagine, people listen to audiobooks, I mean, when is it happening? When is it happening for you? And this is why we have NPR pop culture critic Linda Holmes with us for some audiobook recommendations. Some people devour them, and some people would if they knew where to start, which is where I'm at.

I mean, come on, you can watch, read and listen to just about anything right now, including audio books. But it's not because there's a lack of personal entertainment options. You may be stir-crazy during the pandemic.

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