By far the greater part of my time listening to audiobooks has been semi-academic lectures, Harry Potter books, and Pimsleur language instruction (currently Hebrew). Almost all my experience has been with Audible, but I've subscribed to both audible.com and audible.fr .
The lectures are in the two series The Great Courses and The Modern Scholar. From The Great Courses I listened to a good bit of ancient history, and also a "course" about the Black Death (plague, 14th century). Each of these "courses" has a bunch of lectures, each of which is a half hour or 45 minutes, so the total length is from 12 to 24 hours. I bought a lot of these during sales rather than using Audible credits. These are audio-only versions of courses that may have been videos. In general, for the subjects I got and for my purposes, audio-only was fine. I think the courses were the older ones, in which the video was much less important than recently.
The Modern Scholar "courses" are similar, though shorter, 4-8 hours. I don't think these have video counterparts. I think they are simply and purely audio productions.
Courses from both these series come with detailed PDFs outlining the lectures and giving limited bibliographies. You download the PDFs from the Audible.com item listing in your library.
I used to listen to them when driving, or at bedtime or when I would wake up in the middle of the night, stressed. In the nighttime the lectures didn't put me to sleep; what they did do was to occupy the chattering part of my mind and stop it from chattering.
Harry Potter, Hebrew, and audible.fr in further posts in this topic.
The lectures are in the two series The Great Courses and The Modern Scholar. From The Great Courses I listened to a good bit of ancient history, and also a "course" about the Black Death (plague, 14th century). Each of these "courses" has a bunch of lectures, each of which is a half hour or 45 minutes, so the total length is from 12 to 24 hours. I bought a lot of these during sales rather than using Audible credits. These are audio-only versions of courses that may have been videos. In general, for the subjects I got and for my purposes, audio-only was fine. I think the courses were the older ones, in which the video was much less important than recently.
The Modern Scholar "courses" are similar, though shorter, 4-8 hours. I don't think these have video counterparts. I think they are simply and purely audio productions.
Courses from both these series come with detailed PDFs outlining the lectures and giving limited bibliographies. You download the PDFs from the Audible.com item listing in your library.
I used to listen to them when driving, or at bedtime or when I would wake up in the middle of the night, stressed. In the nighttime the lectures didn't put me to sleep; what they did do was to occupy the chattering part of my mind and stop it from chattering.
Harry Potter, Hebrew, and audible.fr in further posts in this topic.