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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Some audiobooks have a full-cast. That's something you cannot get from just reading.
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Why not? I enjoy listening to radio drama but I don't want someone reading a book to me. When I'm reading, I sometimes imagine the characters who were in the movie. I can't read
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre without seeing and hearing Humphrey Bogart, although the book and the movie are quite different. I sometimes imagine actors and actresses or even other people in public life as various characters.
I'll sometimes read a sentence or a paragraph over once or twice because it's so well written. Can't really do that with audible books. I often highlight a phrase or sentence or paragraph. Can't do that, either. And, with my Kindle I'm quick to look up words when I want to see how the author is using the word. Some authors should have the thesaurus license revoked. I can remember back when writers doing radio drama would use new words and my mother would drop her knitting and run over to the dictionary to look up a word.
I used to enjoy being read to but that was before I learned to read. I was the only kid I knew whose father would scream, "Put that friggin' book down and go outside and play." One day after I'd been driven outside he came out and found me sitting behind a tree reading my book. His face got so red I thought he would have a medical crisis.