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Originally Posted by citac
I vehemently disagree with the statement that audiobooks are an inferior method of transmitting text. When I went through a particularly nasty strain of the H1N1 flu couple of years back and couldn't read, I was able to listen to audiobooks. And what about the blind and people with impaired vision? Are you saying that their experience of a book is inferior because it was wchieved thriugh an audio recording (or Braille for that matter)?
If you had just said it was a different method, I would have agreed 100%.
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It's inferior in the same way an acoustic modem is inferior compared to optic fibre transfer. It is SLOW like hell.
The 1st time I consumed "The Hobbit" I did it as audio book (paper wasn't available in the hospital library) so I can compare. It was exhausting to wait for the text being read.
I also beg to differ and NOT to mingle Braille into it.
It's a haptic perceivable transcription, and as such it is being read.