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Old 11-04-2017, 01:29 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's "active" in the sense that you're in control of the process. When you listen, you are playing a completely passive role; the narrator is the person doing the reading, and you're the audience.
You're controlling the process the same. When you read a printed book you can start or stop or go backwards or forwards to a point as you like. When you listen to/read an audiobook, you can start or stop or go backwards or forwards to a point as you like.
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