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Reading or listening?
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There are certain audiobook readers who are very talented, such as Flo Gibson, who has recorded thousands of books and who has a distinctive, appealing voice and delivery (her career started in the days of radio).

But I don't enjoy listening to books or being read to; it interferes with my imagination. When I read a book by myself, I don't "hear" a voice; if I'm attuned to the story and immersed in what I'm reading, I simply experience the story itself. Hearing a real voice narrate the story makes this harder to do, if not impossible.

I also admit that I fetishize the book itself a bit -- I love the feel and smell of "dead trees."
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Reading or listening? - by paigenumber - 04-30-2008, 06:42 PM
RE: Reading or listening? - by Desdemona - 05-03-2008, 04:21 PM
RE: Reading or listening? - by Charybdis - 12-12-2011, 11:31 AM
RE: Reading or listening? - by Einsamer Krieger - 12-12-2011, 02:42 PM
RE: Reading or listening? - by Penfeather - 12-12-2011, 09:21 PM

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