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Listen to Any Good Books Lately? |
| Section: LIFE / TRENDS |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,728 Words, 15,959 Characters |
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While you won't find Bret Ellis' gory thriller American Psycho on audiocassette, you will find audio versions of a host of other fashionable titles--Katherine Hepburn's autobiography, Me; Anne Tyler's new novel, St. Maybe; and the winner of this year's National Book Award, Charles Johnson's Middle Passage. They are shelved alongside their print edition counterparts. Increasingly, and in response to their overwhelming popularity, cassette recordings of new books are released at the same time as the print editions.
Audio books have revolutionized the way Americans read in a time when great numbers of us are caught up in a too-little-time too-much-to-do life-style. People who find they have less time for the printed page, or whose work involves a lot of reading, are finding that audio b...
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...hat people were actually interacting. Audio books will not supplant reading--reading has already been supplanted by commuting. People listen to recorded books when they're on the move. Static listening is something that we as a nation don't do very well. And anything that gets people talking about books rather than what's going on in football or the latest gossip has got a lot going for it."
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