The culture that saved us: how audiobooks got me through 2020 Katie Law
Reading books may have helped save the nation’s mental health during lockdown, but the discovery of being able to listen to them on Audible instead is what’s saved me.
I’ve always enjoyed reading, but as the Evening Standard’s books editor, it also makes up a large part of my job. I prefer physical books to e-books so I can scrawl in margins, underline pithy bits and turn down page corners, but as the pandemic months rolled by, spending sedentary hours with a book at the kitchen table was becoming a nightmare, as my back would just seize up.