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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The same story in pBook, eBook, and audiobook are all the same book.
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Originally Posted by Arconte
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.
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A nonsense comparison.
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Originally Posted by meeera
This analogy is arrant nonsense. It's more like the difference between eating your McD's burger off a china plate at a table vs eating it out of a paper wrapper standing up. Same content, different surroundings/circumstances.
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Or an old faded paperback on wood-pulp paper set in only 6pt Garamond with smudged ink is a like a VHS recorded off air at long play vs an eBook on a modern ereader is like the DVD / BD version.
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Originally Posted by Arconte
Maybe the information is the name listened than read, but the mental processes are diferent.
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That's nearly true. Unless the information is exactly the same then it's not a good audio book and the mental process are different due to listening rather than seeing and reading.
I know loads of smart people that prefer consuming book content via audio. Forty years ago there were only a limited number of abridged titles for blind or partially sighted people. Originally on 78 discs in 1890s and then various tape systems from 1960s. Curiously though compact cassettes existed from 1962 (before 8 track which hardly caught on in Europe) the RNIB used a custom cassette even in 1980s.
The availability of unabridged audio books and also nearly decent text to speech (pioneered by Ray Kurzweil's invention of workable OCR in late 1970s used for the Blind) for free (Pocketbook app on Android etc) is great for everyone.
Personally I prefer reading text. But there is nothing inferior about people choosing audio books. It is usually the same content.
Some people have no choice either through bad eyesight or bad hearing. Having choice is good.