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Originally Posted by Format C:
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But how audiobooks fit in the picture (pardon the pun)?
Why they didn't replace printed text?
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There is a simple response to your question. Audio (thus speech) is linear. Reading doesn't have to be linear. We can skip ahead, jump back, review etc. It's very difficult to do this in audio because it does not occupy physical space. Paper occupies physical space and by that it means it can be manipulated on the physical realm which you can't in audio.
Unless you're blind, audiobooks are not going to replace printed text.
As someone who has done a lot of interviews for his research, I never work off of just the audio files (these are digital files). I transcribe them and use the printed text in order to mark them up, and use as my data. I may refer back to my audio files but the typed transcriptions is the primary form of the data, and not the audio file.