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Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about reading without reading.... (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2023 OP
Libra Vox is good Warpy Nov 2023 #1

Warpy

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1. Libra Vox is good
Thu Nov 23, 2023, 03:17 PM
Nov 2023

You Tube also has quite a few classics being read aloud by competent people. Audible is a subscription service owned by Amazon (who else?_ and their readers are quite competent. Talking books drove my mother nuts because the readers were volunteers who weren't particularly competent., reading in monotone and pronouncing "the" as "Thee,: that sort of thing, drove my school teacher mother around the bend. I'll give it a miss as long as I can.

It's not just devide happy kids who can benefit from this stuff, old folks with lousy vision (me) can find a bonanza these days if we've always been readers.

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