Invid Fan <invid@localnet.com> writes:
> In article <97ldo2t7v28a4e1lssnop8mbd2mdbujihj@4ax.com>, Rob Browning
> <pluvius3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > There are a number of things that have been received fairly well
> > despite not being suited to their media.  Take audiobooks, for
> > example.  It's much easier to read a book than it is to listen to one,
> > yet people like audiobooks because you can make use of them while
> > driving a car or doing other things that prohibit reading.  But at
> > home, most people would choose the print book over the audiobook.
> > 
> Then again, there's something... nice about having someone tell you a
> story. I especially like it when authors read their own work: Steven
> King for example does a great job. If it wasn't for the higher price of
> audio books I'd have many more.

I had a much harder time getting through _The Dubliners_ as a print
book than I did the audiobook version.  Part of the problem was the
parts of the book written in dialect, that when spoken were perfectly
intelligible.  The other was that the book is basically written as a
series of rambling tales, the sort of story that makes much more sense
when read aloud than when the words sit, dully unresponsive, on the
page.

-=Eric