I’ve been noticing a lot of well-created Youtube videos on a variety of subjects, with good detail, thorough research, and clear presentation. I’ve also found this happening with podcasts, many of which are surprisingly good and even more detailed than some books. I’m not exaggerating! So, will podcasts and Youtube videos eventually replace books?
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Perhaps not entirely. But they will undoubtedly reshape how we access and process information.When I’m working on tasks like solving math or physics problems, I can’t read a book simultaneously, but I can listen to a podcast or science Youtube video. This helps me use my time efficiently and multitask effectively.
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by Delicious_Maize9656
8 Comments
Have you not heard of audiobooks??
You can absolutely listen to books the same way you’d listen to a podcast. And books almost always have more in depth information. In fact, podcasts often use books as source materials.
Movies and television did not kill off books, and podcasts and YouTube videos won’t kill off books either. TikTok has actually driven a huge amount of sales into the publishing and book industry. Book sales are doing amazing.
New mediums come along all the time and books keep on thriving.
I’d rather watch or listen to longform analysis videos than read papers, but for anything else it’s easier to use me eyes
Considering that radio didn’t replace books, what makes you think that podcasts or online videos (which is essentially the same format, just easier to access and manipulate (pausing and going back), and with much wider selection) will?
Did documentaries replace books? I don’t think so.
No more than live action adaptation replace novels
No as great books are more immersive than any other media, it allows your mind to take you somewhere and experience all the senses like a vivid dream things can come to life unlike other media where it is given to you and your mind works passively. But I agree for strictly informational stuff to some degree it may.
No, not at all. Both videos and podcasts rely on books for their research. They also don’t have the luxury of presenting as much information as you would find in books. If anything, they may drive more people towars books if they want to find out more information about something they heard on a podcast.
Society has been having the same conversation since radio was supposed to replace books. Then television. Then the internet. Those new things create and fill *new* niches. You said it yourself: “I can’t read a book simultaneously, but I can listen to a podcast or science Youtube video”. So which books did they replace? Because you weren’t reading while working before, so no book went unread in lieu of a podcast.
They’re not going anywhere.