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)
Doesn't seem all that different when you're used to it. Not as much as a radio play for example. Professional readers are very good and not intrusive. You quickly get used to voice/accent of a good reader so you don't notice it.
For me, reading text increasingly gives a very broken-up half-message because of sight/concentration difficulties, and takes a lot longer than it used to. Having someone delivering at a steady pace and not losing their place all the time gives me more room to make better pictures in my head, especially with less distracting pain, and enables me to read the book faster too :-). Rewinding to find out where I fell asleep can have it's challenges, but not as much as reading the same paragraph 10 times, followed by one on the previous page, and another random one, and nothing making any sense ;-P.
Then again, I love being read to :-D. Even better is off-the-cuff storytelling, which is why I go to Story Forge whenever I can too.
I wouldn't recommend telling a visually impaired person reading an audio book that their experience is inauthentic or inferior! Sighted disabled people can also bop you on the nose for the same suggestion ;-P. I think that actually everyone's experience of a book is different, and still counts as reading.
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Date: 2014-01-28 07:25 pm (UTC)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)
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Date: 2014-01-29 12:06 pm (UTC)For me, reading text increasingly gives a very broken-up half-message because of sight/concentration difficulties, and takes a lot longer than it used to. Having someone delivering at a steady pace and not losing their place all the time gives me more room to make better pictures in my head, especially with less distracting pain, and enables me to read the book faster too :-). Rewinding to find out where I fell asleep can have it's challenges, but not as much as reading the same paragraph 10 times, followed by one on the previous page, and another random one, and nothing making any sense ;-P.
Then again, I love being read to :-D. Even better is off-the-cuff storytelling, which is why I go to Story Forge whenever I can too.
I wouldn't recommend telling a visually impaired person reading an audio book that their experience is inauthentic or inferior! Sighted disabled people can also bop you on the nose for the same suggestion ;-P. I think that actually everyone's experience of a book is different, and still counts as reading.
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