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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realized that they take more time and the level of comprehension is actually lower.   I had fallen out of the habit of reading literature - hadn't read that much great fiction since college.  I decided I wanted to read serious literature - books like Bleak House, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina. I was a bit rusty and intimidated, so I decided to use Audiobooks (and read along with the text) as a "crutch" of sorts.

I realized it's ultimately a passive experience. [b] Every line is delivered with equal weight[/b], so a particularly profound passage that you want to think about passes you by.  The voice of the narrator and the emotions of the scene are set by how the reader says them.  You're not having your own dialogue with the text.

So Audiobooks are fine if you're cleaning or on a long plane ride, for something that's not going to really to have a longlasting impact.  And maybe after reading a great work yourself, it would be interesting to hear an Audiobook performance.  But you can't say you've "read" AK if you had in the background while you were cleaning the kitchen, IMO.  [/quote]

Have you actually ever listened to an audiobook? A narrator imparts more emphasis on certain words than a book where they're all in black and white and in the same size font...[/quote]

But that's part of the problem, no?  Someone is telling you "listen here, this part is important."  Rather than your own independent evaluation.  [/quote]

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