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Old 09-20-2011, 05:01 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
And if books were only meant to be 'read' why are authors allowing audiobooks to be produced? Why, in fact, do many of them do the reading for those audiobooks?
Probably to earn more money. And most books probably works OK being listened to. The point here is that they probably work better being read if they were not specifically written to be read aloud.

Here was an interesting argument for the experiences being different:

http://readwritenow.wordpress.com/20...ng-and-memory/

(different parts of the brain are activated).
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