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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're giving the reader to much credit I think. Reading a book is in no way the equivalent of creating anything. A reader is experiencing the story just as passively/actively as a listener, in my opinion. In the end, you're both merely processing/consuming what someone else has created.
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We must agree to differ. I, for example, have both the UK version of the “Harry Potter” audiobooks, which are narrated by Stephen Fry, and the US version, narrated by Jim Dale. Same books, but two very different performances. I use that word deliberately; I think an audiobook narration by a good narrator is very much a performance, and I, as the listener, get my experience of the book filtered through the interpretation that the performer has placed on it. When I read the book myself, on the other hand, all the interpretation is my own; there’s no intermediary.