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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I have most of the audiobooks that I listen to in ebook or paper book format. I get something different from listening to them than I get from actually reading the book. They are different experiences.
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I once did the tripple... I watched the BBC mini series of Pride and Prejudice (loved it, an absolute must for Pride and Prejudice fans), then I listened to the unabridged audiobook and finally I read the ebook. I must say, they all three had advantages over the other.
The TV version gave me small details in clothing, surroundings, activities of non-essential characters. Things I couldn't experience in real-life (not having lived in England in that era...) and thus had no idea what to imagine about it.
The audiobook version after that, I could close my eyes and imagine everything around the main characters, from memory, based on the TV images, while completely immerse myself into the story. And you get more information about what characters were thinking (very hard to depict on TV!) and what their feelings were.
Then I read the ebook. Again, you read about the feelings and thoughts of characters, like the audiobook, but as I read it, I somehow put more attention to some things and less attention to others, which gave yet another dimension to the story.
Completely different experiences, indeed. And I still can't say which version I liked best
(though, Colin Firth does have an edge there!)
Naturally, this tripple only works if the TV interpretation is very close to the book, and the audiobook is unabridged