{"id":220983,"date":"2026-04-20T01:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220983"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:47:59","slug":"audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220983","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks surge as travel favorite, helping fuel debate over what &#8216;counts&#8217; as reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are ditching traditional books for audiobooks, with daily listening up 167% since 2016. But does the popular travel pastime count as reading? Experts weigh in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/listening-audiobooks-during-travel-why-some-insist-counts-reading\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are ditching traditional books for audiobooks, with daily listening up 167% since 2016. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading.jpg",931,523,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading-768x431.jpg",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading.jpg",931,523,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading.jpg",931,523,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading.jpg",931,523,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading-825x523.jpg",825,523,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220983-audiobooks-surge-as-travel-favorite-helping-fuel-debate-over-what-counts-as-reading-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}