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I'm biased against audiobooks, but sometimes I ask myself why is writing superior to sound? Languages are based on sound.

>>9112236
Because most texts are written to be read. Plays, some poetry, etc. are not, though.

>>9112240
>texts are written to be read

Texts are meant to be read, but they should be read by you using your own inner (or outer) voice. I don't trust audiobook narrators, who can give you only their "interpretation."

>>9112248
What I mean is that a play is meant to be performed, generally. Ancient poetry was meant to be recited. Your average book is written with the assumption you would sit there and literally just read it.

>>9112240
>plays aren't meant to be read
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>>9112269
I explained what I meant. There's nothing wrong with reading them, but I think the intended experience of consuming a play is viewing a performance of it.

A play is literature in the sense that a movie script is literature.

>>9112273
Embarrassing opinion. Train your brain.

Poems are literally meant to be read. Not listening to Inferno/Odyssey/Illiad/Paradise Lost/Beowulf audiobook is losing so much if you just read it

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>>9112277
nigga plz

Eyeproblemman here, audiobooks only for me.
Anyone who gets mad about people listening to audiobooks instead of reading, like OP, is just trying to show his superiority in a contest only he is participating in.

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>>9112573
shit, that thought hadn't occured to me, my famigliones.

>>9112282
Dumbfuck. Obviously plays are meant to be performed rather than read. In the past, plays were often recited and performed informally as a social activity. Do you even history?

>>9112248
Why do you trust your interpretation then ?

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>budio
>aook

lhee?

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>>9112573
http://read.gov/aesop/005.html
forget the moral, it's about dealing with loss.
It might help you get to the next stage

We should call them AudioReads.

It's audio of a person reading a book.

It's not a book, you silly americants.