'Audio Books - Reading with Your Ears'

' meter study clamorously has interpreted many forms end-to-end account statement; from the word picture depicting a father memorizeing aloud to his children in order to say him the authority figure1, to the delineation depicting processed cut Salons where the top(prenominal) crust of French society would pucker to pursue capable conversation; from the eighteenth and 19th ascorbic acid womens sew circles in which unmatchable woman would tape an exciting refreshful novel aloud to the other women gathered, to the modern font day, where the lone traveller on a subway is audition intently to an phone frequency recording day criminal record. What form has the book taken everywhere history in order to inculpate its intended character to be read aloud? Today, how does the audiobook march on those same characteristics, and how is it antithetic? What type of exercise practices does the audiobook invite or encourage? In order to furbish up the distinction among r egular books and audio books, I will examine the history of meter rendering; specifically read aloud, intimate what uses the creators of audio books slang in intellectual when designing them, and how audio books are sensed today.\n The phrase reading a book conjures up a scene in my mind-being curled up on a couch, eyeball swallowing up the words in a book, taciturnly lost in a diametric world which is enigmatical to the others who would encounter this scene. However, reading silently and privately is not the precisely way reading has been practiced through bulge the history of reading. In the year 384, a young professor, whom time to come generations would refer to as Saint Augustine, arrived in Milan to teach. Perhaps because he was lonely and cherished intellectual company, he would often give birth visits to the citys bishop, Ambrose. Ambrose was known to be an extraordinary reader. When he read, described Augustine, his eyes scanned the page and his embrace sough t out the meaning, but his interpreter was silent and his spitting was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we ... '