rich_jacko

I get that. It is slightly different though. When you read off the page (or screen, if you must), you form your own impression of how the characters sound, and your own interpretation of where in the text the pauses and emphases fall. With an audio book you've got someone else doing that for you. So much depends on the choices that person makes. It's being read to rather than reading. The experiences are different and can leave quite different impressions of the same book.

I'm told by adult friends that they get a whole new version of Harry Potter when I read it to the goblin child! ;o)