{"id":1541,"date":"2013-07-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2013-07-05T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T03:07:07","slug":"sync-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"SYNC audiobooks &#8211; humorous reads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, hopefully you&#8217;ve been downloading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiobooksync.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">free SYNC audiobook pair<\/a> each week when I remind you. But are you secretly thinking, &#8220;audiobooks aren&#8217;t really reading&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Nay, my friends! Research has shown that &#8216;reading with your ears&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/oedb.org\/library\/beginning-online-learning\/your-brain-on-books-10-things-that-happen-to-our-minds-when-we-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">actively engages your brain<\/a> in much the same way that reading text does. And of course, we all know that some of us are visual learners and others are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-styles-online.com\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">auditory learners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over on The BookRiot blog, Rachel recently debunked <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/06\/04\/listening-to-books-is-cheating-and-7-more-myths-about-audiobooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;Listening to Books is Cheating&#8217; and 7 More Myths About Audiobooks&#8221;<\/a> so what are you waiting for? You only have until Wednesday to download either or both audiobooks, then you can listen as long as you keep them on your electronic device.<\/p>\n<p>Ready, set, read &#8212; with your ears!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CarterFinallyGtsItBAUMUYA-180x300.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2008\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=2008\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CarterFinallyGtsItBAUMUYA-180x300.jpg?fit=180%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"180,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CarterFinallyGetsIt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CarterFinallyGtsItBAUMUYA-180x300.jpg?fit=180%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2008\" alt=\"CD cover of Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford read by Nick Podehl published by Brilliance Audio\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CarterFinallyGtsItBAUMUYA-180x300.jpg?resize=117%2C194\" width=\"117\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Carter Finally Gets It<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brent-crawford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Crawford<\/a><br \/>\nRead by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiofilemagazine.com\/gvpages\/A2549.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Podehl<\/a><br \/>\nPublished by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brillianceaudio.com\/product?i=2534\" target=\"_blank\">Brilliance Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/She-Stoops-to-Conquer_FRONT-300x274.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2009\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=2009\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/She-Stoops-to-Conquer_FRONT-300x274.jpg?fit=300%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,274\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"She-Stoops-to-Conquer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/She-Stoops-to-Conquer_FRONT-300x274.jpg?fit=300%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2009\" alt=\"CD cover of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith read by full cast at LA Theatre Works\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/She-Stoops-to-Conquer_FRONT-300x274.jpg?resize=168%2C154\" width=\"168\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/383\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>She Stoops to Conquer<\/strong><\/a><\/em><br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/oliver-goldsmith-9314751\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Goldsmith<\/a><br \/>\nRead by Rosalind Ayres, Adam Godley, Julian Holloway, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Paula Jane Newman, Ian Ogilvy, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson, Joanne Whalley, Matthew Wolf<br \/>\nPublished by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Theatre Works<\/a><br \/>\nTwo different comedies, two different settings, just too funny!<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, hopefully you&#8217;ve been downloading the free SYNC audiobook pair each week when I remind you. But are you secretly thinking, &#8220;audiobooks aren&#8217;t really reading&#8221;? Nay, my friends! Research has shown that &#8216;reading with your ears&#8217; actively engages your brain in much the same way that reading text does. And of course, we all know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[127,22,4,20,5,16,32,44,46,39,31,15,9,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-audiobooks","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-love","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}