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Old 03-03-2013, 07:39 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Well I can't speak for the OP, but for myself... audiobooks are not an option. I want to read not listen. They're not the same thing. I'm not dissing audiobooks--in fact I wish I could avail myself of their convenience sometimes--but I can't. No matter how many times I try them... I find I always stop listening after a while. The narration becomes a disembodied buzz in my ear. Then it's a PITA to back up and figure out where I first tuned it out.
And sometimes the narrator ruins the book - I'm reading the Game of Thrones series right now and the narrator for them I just do not like at all - in the first one where Kahl Drogo was saying "No?" to Dany on their wedding night his reading of it was SO, SO wrong!!!

I've wanted a remote, too! I'm very lazy (haha) and read in bed a lot and sometimes it's COLD and I want my hands under the blankets and having a little remote in hand would be pretty nice!

Back to audiobooks, I do find that non-fiction can be easier to listen to if it's a topic I'm very interested in, since they are pretty to the point and they can't mess up the character's 'voice'.
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