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[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?

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[niko]

Just chiming in as another person who's always loved being read to - and reading aloud myself, even more so. In school, my primary means of studying was to go through my notes and *talk* them out to myself. Something about that brain-to-mouth transfer helped fix things in my head much better than reading or listening alone.

It's funny you mentioned audiobooks helping you get through Fellowship of the Ring. What helped me get through them was that I read the books aloud to myself. Now I'm wondering if listening to the recording would have worked just as well for me, or if I needed to actually be *saying* the words to get the impact. Hmmmm... oral vs. aural. :)

Beyond that, just ditto to what everyone else has said about the pluses of podfics. There's a little bit of all of that wrapped up in it for me.