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That doesn't really reflect on/correlate to what I said. Nine hours for a 300 page book is hardly speed reading or rushing through it, the human voice is simply slower than reading with ones eye.
it's not a contentious statement in anyway
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I guarantee any random old lady who works at some rural gas station polishes off more books a month than literally anyone who makes books their personality online
Ps: your brain definitely moves faster than a voice. Audiobooks are so slow that's why I don't like them lol
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My grandmother (native Hawaiian) lost sight in her eyes and one of her favourite things was to highlight something and then look at my face when I read it for myself, since we're making arguments about reading vs listening to audiobooks based on the strength of our emotional appeals
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It's not even true frankly. I've listened to adaptions of Tolkien's stuff where the readers don't realize he's doing specific metered language and even callbacks to old Norse poetry and stuff
They just read right over it all missing little rhymes and moments lol
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If it was a superficial conversation about who did what plot action, yes
If it was about Tolkien using Anglo Saxon poetic devices and meter at times when characters were speaking in children of hurin
You would never know it unless the reader was a linguist and knew what to look for and emphasize
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This is a basically an appeal to nature while also ignoring every single big development in literature. Yeah, novels (1700) have way higher informational density than campside stories or myths.
This does not support the point you think it does, oral stories were traditionally: very simple
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Are you saying that your internal voice is slower than a person physically talking. That's truly astounding.
Like when you are driving do you just blow right past traffic signs because of this "extra step"
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It's also incredibly slower because your information intake is limited to the speed of human voice
Very funny that all these busy people cant read, but they do have a spare 18 hours for what's only a 7-9 hour book
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Yeah, reading this thread made me realize what a chip on the shoulder all these audiobooks guys have. Nothing but bizarre reaches and ahistorical comparisons because reading has become aestheticized and moralized and everyone wants to be seen as "good"
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This is just you projecting your own weird ideas about reading. Reading is the cheapest hobby around, not an exclusive club. The vast majority of avid readers are seventy and knock off three Nora Roberts or generic thrillers a week