Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoI’m just puzzled… I mean yeah, no shit, people read books out loud all of the fucking time, particularly before literacy became so common.
But what is the point? What is it that you actually thought I meant with my previous comment? That oral tradition didn’t exist in the 90s?
Because it seems like that’s the point you’re arguing against.
I thought it was pretty clear that I meant more people tended to read than listen to audio books in the 90s.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
More people tend to read than listen to audio books today. Despite that audiobooks are very popular today. They were also very popular in the 90s and 00s. So I guess I’m still wondering what exactly your point is? Having books read to you is popular today, it was popular in the 00s, it was popular in the 90s, it was popular 200 years ago, it was popular 2,000 years ago, etc.
There was no point during your lifetime nor OPs lifetime that reading books was some kind of weird or not normal thing like OPs original comment implied.