Do you think listening to audiobooks is cheating?
Is it taking a short cut and depriving us of the pleasure of absorbing a good book with our eyes?
Highbrow lovers of literature believe you must read each word to truly take in a book, but I am seduced by my new guilty pleasure of listening to audiobooks.
I cannot get enough of novels and autobiographies that are not only served up for me on an oral silver platter, but are also often read by the celebrity author themselves.
Harry (the loose-lipped prince), himself, read to me every word of his controversial tome Spare and Matthew McConaughey drawled each page to me of his memoir Green Lights.
It is intimate to have the author speak every word to you as if they are telling only you their deepest and darkest secrets.
I have dozens of actual hardcover books stacked high at home that sit there mocking me because I have not had time to read them.
Books have always been my sanctuary away from the world but, somewhere in the past decade, I lost prioritising turning pages.
When I opened a book, I would usually end up literally drooling over the words as they sent me into slumber within minutes.
My son has dyslexia so audiobooks are his lifeblood and now for me as well.
They are a game changer.
I have them on when I cook dinner or drive home from school drop-off.
I can multitask and still get my book fix.
Currently, I am listening to Pamela Anderson narrating her own life story in her autobiography Love, Pamela.
It is fun and light and also a lesson that the Playboy Pet was not a fame-hungry sex goddess.
The mother of two is quite the opposite and has actually spent her life dedicated to animal rights issues.
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The Baywatch star has never seen the sex tape with her ex-husband, Tommy Lee.
The tape was stolen from their safe and they have never made a cent from it.
The environmentalist was abused as a child and, as a result, the most famous blonde in the world doubted her body and self-worth.
Pamela seems gentle, funny, fascinating and truly beautiful.
Shame on me for thinking she was just fake tan and implants.
I will go back to the purist form of reading books but, for now, audiobooks are surprising and delighting me and are the easiest relationship I have ever had.
Sami Muirhead is a radio announcer, blogger and commentator. For more from Sami, tune into Mix FM.
