Audio Books - The Flip Side
Your opinion of audio
books are probably going
to depend a lot on your age, if you can remember 33, 45, or even 78
speed phonograph records or if you are going what the heck is a record,
it will play a large part in your feelings towards audio books as a
medium. To the very young, not capable of reading yet they are a joyous
and entertainingly vivid way of experiencing the written words long
before you can put together your first "See Spot, See Spot run".
To the highly mobile teenager they are the closest many
would ever get to a book if not held in captivity seven hours a day in
our public schools being forced to read things they can no more relate
to then a Eskimo can to the sandy deserts of Saudi Arabia. Let's face
it although considered the greatest playwright of the last millennium
Shakespeare is so out of touch to the average teen that you might as
well drill a hole in their head and poor the stuff in as get them to
want to read it.
Once again the generation gap will play a large part in
whether you feel books by their sheer nature are better than audio that
can just be turned on at the press of a button from their mp3 player as
where their grandparents are asking what is an iPod? When seeking to
find the answer for the question are audio books better, equal, or just
a fad, you have to look at how the two differ.
The pro's for the audio side of the argument; goes
anywhere, light, hands free, can be read (listened to) on the go
whether in a plane, train, or automobile. Costs are now comparable with
the written book and sometimes actually more affordable.
You do not have to worry if you spill your coffee on an
audio CD - just a quick wash and it is going again; try that with your
favorite Harry Potter Book. You can often get audio books read by the
author so there are no questions as to the author's intentions about
the way a passage was meant to be read in the book.
It is probably that fact which is one of the most vivid
reasons that the audio books have a flaw. Where is the imagination?
When you read a book, you have to interpret in your own way what the
author meant by a passage not someone else's view of it. You have a
clear blank slate (ancient devices to write on with chalk like a PDA
without batteries) to draw your own vision of the words with their own
smells, sounds, lighting, mood, and whatever other senses you choose to
employ in the visualization of the written words.
As humans we need to ask ourselves what is the reason for
us to write books and thus hence audio books? It seems clear that audio
is the offshoot of the written (for the last 100 years or so at least)
not the other way around. Not too many authors release an audio book
then release it into print.
On the other hand, studies have shown that only about 10%
of books ever get read passed the first chapter. We have to ask
ourselves what we are reading the book for in the first place. Is it
for technical information or for the sheer joy to sit down with a hot
cup of your favorite brew and find a cozy quiet corner to escape to
lands far off and forgotten?
One could supposedly take this question one step further
and ask whether the movie is better than either a book or an audio?
Back to the Harry Potter example, are the movies better than the
brilliant works of magical words that JK Rowling's scribed out over the
last decade? Are the visualizations of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds or
Psycho clearer in his written words or the film later and then what
about colorization?
The human mind is a complex visualization device and one
left to its imagination creates incredible visions of what we see, or
read, or hear. In conclusion one needs to ask yourself whether you want
your medium dished out to you pre chewed or would you prefer to sink
your teeth into a nice thick juicy steak and saver every single morsel
of its complex texture, smell, taste, and visual perfection?
In the end if it is a question of getting some exposure to
great books than it really does not matter which you choose as long as
you get some of the great literary works of mans' colored history to
experience. One could also ask the question what about ebooks, but that
would be yet another whole debate in itself and beyond the scope of
this article. Whichever you decide in the end will be just fine as any
opportunity to engage your mind from something other than the TV is a
good one.
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