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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I, in the other hand, was apparently born reading, at least according to my mother. 
As I said, for us adults, it really doesn't matter. For school age kids, it's a bit different. There is a reason that we read Shakespeare's plays rather than watched a video of the play, even though the video was probably a lot closer to the original experience. For one thing, it's pretty hard to make notes while listening to an audiobook, a lot easier to make notes in the margin, or with a sticky (or equivalent on an ebook) while studying. |
In HS, we learned Shakespeare by listening to records and following along with the text. Then we'd discuss. In college a bunch of us would get together in the dorm, assign parts, and read aloud when we were assigned Shakespeare.
But plays are different anyway--they were never designed to be read silently as words on a page.