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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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Not reading a book while listening to the audio, but having the book there for visual reference is useful. It's like watching a movie with subtitle on. I can ignore it most of the time but if there's something I didn't catch, I just have to glance down at the subtitle.
It's especially useful for sci fi with made up words and terminology. I'm someone who needs to know how a thing or a name is spelled to have a mental grasp of it.
As pointed out by issybird, the oasis is a relatively lousy device for Audible. Large, fragile compared to say an iPod, expensive, poor control. "Immersion reading" would actually make it a superior experience rather than an inferior one.