Re:Would you rather “Listen” to paul graham's Essays?
by yesenadam on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:25PM
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and make his essays very interactive
The essays have some hyperlinks in them, how could audio be as 'interactive' as that already is? It seems you mean something other than 'interactive'.
Anyway, I don't see what's "just" about reading someone's essays - it's my favourite thing in life. People like Hazlitt, Stevenson, Chesterton, Santayana, Russell, Emerson - and, yes, pg - I think he's a great essayist, my favourite from recent decades.
I've never been into audiobooks. I tried a few years ago - but all bad, terrible pronunciation of names, usually inappropriate US accent, etc. I hear there are good ones, although that was just novels. Also, when reading, I like being able to stop, think about what I read. (Not like a read-aloud story where the storyteller's pace is usually fine) Being able to stop at the end of a sentence, and repeat it, or repeat paragraph, or page, would be good.
I used to have tapes with hours of famous poets reading their own poetry - Yeats, Eliot, Plath etc - they were so awesome. Then when you read their other stuff, you can hear it in their voice. It's like that e.g. reading Rorty after watching a lot of video of him speaking, I can't imagine not having heard/seen him.
The essays have some hyperlinks in them, how could audio be as 'interactive' as that already is? It seems you mean something other than 'interactive'.
Anyway, I don't see what's "just" about reading someone's essays - it's my favourite thing in life. People like Hazlitt, Stevenson, Chesterton, Santayana, Russell, Emerson - and, yes, pg - I think he's a great essayist, my favourite from recent decades.
I've never been into audiobooks. I tried a few years ago - but all bad, terrible pronunciation of names, usually inappropriate US accent, etc. I hear there are good ones, although that was just novels. Also, when reading, I like being able to stop, think about what I read. (Not like a read-aloud story where the storyteller's pace is usually fine) Being able to stop at the end of a sentence, and repeat it, or repeat paragraph, or page, would be good.
I used to have tapes with hours of famous poets reading their own poetry - Yeats, Eliot, Plath etc - they were so awesome. Then when you read their other stuff, you can hear it in their voice. It's like that e.g. reading Rorty after watching a lot of video of him speaking, I can't imagine not having heard/seen him.