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Originally Posted by meeera
It's particularly interesting to me that when they give the "advantage" to print, what they mean is "print is easier; listening is harder". Which is in stark contrast to the baseless assertions in this thread that listening is easy and passive, as opposed to print which makes you work harder.
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As someone who found listening very much a learned skill and still has to work at keeping my attention especially as texts get more difficult, I'd have never said that listening is passive per se in the sense of being easy. However, it's undeniable that while listening you're getting another person's interpretation of the text and it was in this sense that I took passive to mean.
So what was interesting to me in the article is that it cites interpretation as a positive, as in the quote from
Romeo and Juliet. Fair enough in that instance and I even agree that there are books where I prefer audio because the narration/interpretation is so entertaining. It doesn't bother me that I'm listening to an interpretation; I don't find that objectively a bad thing. But I must note that I don't find narrators entirely reliable, either. I'd never, ever trust a narrator's pronunciation, for example; I've heard far too many howlers. For me, pronunciation issues are the single major drawback to audiobooks. One will take me right out of the story for a bit; many will ruin a book. QC needs to be much better in that respect.