Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoYeah, but that was because in those days most people were actually illiterate, which in recent history we considered a bad thing and tried to avoid, but it seems to be making a comeback unfortunately.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not true, even highly educated Roman and Greek elites would attend book readings. It was considered a leisure activity and appreciated it as the performance it was, same as today.
In fact today we have more reasons than ever to listen to audiobooks, the most significant of which is that it’s not legal nor advisable to read a physical book while driving a motor vehicle.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Somehow, I don’t think the original commenter was referring to their memories of ancient Greece or Rome…
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, because the original commenter wasn’t referring to their memories of any period of time, because the period of time they’re referring to doesn’t exist.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It existed in the 90s and early 00s when I was growing up, before streaming tech took over audio books.
Just because the concept of reading books out loud already existed, doesn’t mean that they don’t remember a time when it wasn’t more popular than just reading.