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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Reading an Audble book is not substitution for actually reading. Sorry, but I feel that suggestion just isnt a good replacement for actual reading.
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Well, yes and no. You
do actually read the book, it's not abridged in any way. But it does enter the brain via a different medium. I find I get different things out of a well read audio book than the text version, but I also get many of the same things.
I've read hundreds of books via Books on Tape and Audible in the last 30 years, while I've read thousands via pBooks and now eBooks. Some of those have overlapped each other, some haven't.
As an example:
West With the Night by Beryl Markham. Read on BOT by Donada Peters (alias of Wanda McCadden). One of the all time best books ever, full stop. Read on Audible by Anna Field? Hopeless.
Same book, read as a normal book. Also one of the greatest books ever written in the English language. Evocative, descriptive, and very compelling. Not the same experience as the Donada Peters reading, but compelling on the same level.