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Old 09-18-2011, 03:15 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
*I wish there were a way to sync e-books and audiobooks...I have a Kindle; Amazon owns audible; Amazon runs whispersync...they should get off of their [buttocks] and start working on it.
Isn't that what text-to-speech does?

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Originally Posted by mrscoach View Post
Sorry for seeming to jump on you, but I have a daughter that loves books, just not so much the reading of them because she struggles with the ACT of reading. And she is a straight A college student!
Reading is a skill that is learned. If she would have read more at an early age she would have been better at it.

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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
What utter hogwash. There is absolutely no difference between reading and listening to a book among adults talking about the books they have "read" on a web forum.
So in a decade or so the definition of reading will be extended to listening to somebody else read.

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Originally Posted by guyanonymous View Post
As a rule, when these issues occur, they often fall along gender lines. While most children's bias are gone at an early age, if they do develop a distinct learning style preference, boys often do better visually and girls with auditory information.
Isn't that visually as in pictures and not visually as in written words? Since more women than men read.
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