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影视、音乐等领域的概况及其发展
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In recent years,there has been a rise in the volume of audiobook sales,which
is easily aided by the dominance of the smartphone.Are there other contributors
to the rise beyond technology?
One thing is obvious:Reading even a short book involves a significant
investment of time and prevents any other activity.You can't drive or garden
while reading.Andy Miller,the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously,said,"I
was hunting for a book to read.Kit Waal,my friend,said.'you should get the
audiobook Old Filth;it's fantastic.'She was right.I could walk the dog and still be
reading a brilliant novel,or have one read to me brilliantly.I love that book and I
love that way of reading it.So_I'm_a_recent_convert"
Does he worry audio provides too different an experience to reading itself?
"Clearly on audio you are at the mercy of the reader's skills,he says."But then,
ego aside,the same is true of reading a book on the page.We're all at the
mercy of our own skills and tastes,aren't we?But on audio you are influenced by
someone else's interpretation.And you might simply dislike the voice of the
reader.But at its best audio offers a complementary (experience to the actual
book."
Will audiobooks distract us from the page before us?Better to focus on what
we might gain.As someone who frequently interviews authors on stage,I'm aware
of the unique insight into a text produced by hearing someone read their own
work;I've frequently reinterpreted a passage after such an experience.But that
has had no impact on whether or not I'll read a book by a writer I will never hear
reading.
I once met the writer Don Delillo.In response to a question about the process
of writing,he remarked that he sometimes became attracted by the shape of
particular letters,by the way individual words appeared before him.He sounded
hippy-dippy;then it made perfect sense.Reading does start with shapes,which
slowly resolve to make a cert