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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The same story in pBook, eBook, and audiobook are all the same book. Doesn't matter which way you digest it. You get the same information. Words are words. You're dislike for audiobooks is just wrong. What do you think of people who think eBooks are not real books? Are you happy with that?
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I absolutelly disagree (in a respectful non arrogant way, of course). Just the same as McDonals is not just the same as a good dish, and a Kubrick movie it is not the same as a Marvel movie. Maybe the information is the name listened than read, but the mental processes are diferent. Appart from the concentration, which is you are doing other stuff while you are listening to it it is obvious is less than read, there is the capacity to go back one parragraph (it is not the same than going 10 sec back...); to set your own tempo to match perfectly your speed of though, letting you to grasp every poetic and interesting grammatical construction; to underline and mark parts; to bxe sure story doesn't keep going without you understand anything without noticing; also because the voice it is reading the book it is not your own voice, and maybe some more reasons.
Words are never just words. If one says he/she prefers to listen instead to read, and he/she also says "because it is more confortable to me" or "I have visual problems" or "It needs less concentration to me", then I would be totally agree, but never with an "it's the same".
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You're dislike for audiobooks is just wrong.
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This is a thousand times more aggresive and arrogant than anything I said. Hope you realize that.
By the way, for me the only diference beetwen books and ebooks is that I miss the thouch of the paper and to the certainity of that the marks and underlines I do will last forever, as on my real books. For the rest I think it is the same, and it doesn't molest me the opinion of others
