Originally Posted by
sbslider
Listening to a book while riding would never work for me. I would be too quick to place myself into the book, instead of paying attention to what is around me. Sounds like it works for several of you, which is great. Hope you don't end up 6 feet under or bouncing off the side of a vehicle because of it though, does not seem worth it to me.
I get into the story quite a bit, but as I said previously, I don't have a busy or dangerous commute, and, I get into ANYTHING I'm listening to, whether biking or driving, so I don't really consider it to be worse than rocking out to something or listening to an audiobook in the car.