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Old 10-21-2017, 04:17 PM   #364
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
Some audiobooks have a full-cast. That's something you cannot get from just reading.
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