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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't get the attraction of reading a book while someone reads it out loud. Personally, I read at probably 4x the speed that I could read a book aloud, so I'd constantly be getting ahead of the narration. What's the appeal of it? If I have the book in front of me, I could just read it aloud myself! It seems to negate the real benefit of audiobooks, which is that you can listen to them while doing something else, like driving.
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I once knew a guy that could only read out loud. I found that out when I was reading the Exorcist and he told me that it was bad for my infant son. My first thought was I'm not reading it to him.