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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
*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.
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Isn't that what text-to-speech does?
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Originally Posted by mrscoach
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!
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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
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.
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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
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.
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Isn't that visually as in pictures and not visually as in written words? Since more women than men read.