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Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia by the_af on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:58PM (#23197306)
Do you prefer someone read you a book or reading it yourself?

As a related issue: I just don't understand the audiobook phenomenon. I'm clearly the outsider here. I enjoy reading words, not having them read to me.

Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia by jolmg on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:13PM (#23197487)
Well, normally I read them myself, but I was replying to:

> Upside, audio you can consume while doing other things

which certainly makes sense. While I haven't done so, I could listen to a book while driving, cooking, housecleaning, etc. Reading a book requires me to do nothing else in the mean time.

Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia by gxqoz on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:01PM (#23197346)
I enjoy both but have probably 5x the time for listening compared to reading.