Comments on: ‘Your Cheatin’ Listenin’ Ways’: Audio books vs. text http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/your-cheatin%e2%80%99-listenin%e2%80%99-ways-audio-books-vs-text/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/your-cheatin%e2%80%99-listenin%e2%80%99-ways-audio-books-vs-text/comment-page-1/#comment-485680 Brian Carnell Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:21:14 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6906#comment-485680 The idea that listening to audio is cheating is silly. I listened to Bill Bryon's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" while jogging over a few weeks' time. No way would I have had the time to actually sit down and read it at that point in my life. Presumably, those who believe audio is deficient to reading will soon come out against the widespread prevalence of lectures in education which should clearly be replaced entirely by essays prepared by the lecturers. The idea that listening to audio is cheating is silly. I listened to Bill Bryon’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” while jogging over a few weeks’ time. No way would I have had the time to actually sit down and read it at that point in my life.

Presumably, those who believe audio is deficient to reading will soon come out against the widespread prevalence of lectures in education which should clearly be replaced entirely by essays prepared by the lecturers.

]]> By: Robert Nagle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/your-cheatin%e2%80%99-listenin%e2%80%99-ways-audio-books-vs-text/comment-page-1/#comment-484941 Robert Nagle Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:37:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6906#comment-484941 Here's an <a href="http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/essays/literary/soulmountain.php" rel="nofollow">essay I wrote about listening to Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian almost completely in the car </a>. Here’s an essay I wrote about listening to Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian almost completely in the car .

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