Go! Tell it on the mountain!

[zvi]

fandomfan asks what's so great about podfic?. I'm not sure that it's particularly useful to have that discussion with someone for whom the mere concept hits her embarrassment squick, but, in the more general case, why do you like podfic? Why do you like listening to it, why do you like making it, why do you like manipulating it (if you make covers or podbooks or work on one of the archives), why do you like teaching other people to do it, why do you like discussing it here?

And, even more so, what do you say when someone who doesn't already get it asks these questions?

Comments

[podcath]

Oh, I really like that. And I wonder whether podfic listeners tend to be on the verbal rather than the visual spectrum. Because I don't see pictures or identify. I kinda watch the story as story play out and listening is another way...

[torachan]

Well, I'm not a movie-in-your-head type person, either, but I definitely prefer text over speech. I just can't process things aurally as well. A conversation is one thing (though even that is not ideal for me), because it's generally back and forth between me and someone else, but just listening to one person relay a huge block of information cannot hold my attention and I just cannot absorb it, so whether it's a lecture or a podfic or whatever, it's just not going to sink in.

[softestbullet]

I just can't process things aurally as well.

I have this problem, too. I would love podfic so much more if I didn't!