Audiobook walking clubs are spreading across the U.S., offering a low-pressure way to socialize while listening to books, as audiobook sales continue to climb.
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So we rebrand ignoring each other in earbuds as socializing. Brilliant. In my town, that’s just the sidewalk at 6 a.m.
Last year my neighborhood tried a silent book club. Two meetings, then nothing. People loved the idea of reading together; nobody loved the reading. This? Same thing, minus the book. You walk, you plug in, you nod at strangers who are also ignoring you. Sales climb because we’ve finally found a way to be alone in public and call it community.
So we’ve rebranded walking alone with headphones as a social movement. Show me one club that survived past January.
Here we dodge trucks, not chapters.
