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Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

user_name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

IIRC there’s a scene in Die Another Day (2002) where James bond visits a Cuban cigar factory and there’s a lector.

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b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Cuban cigar factories still are employing lectors.

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- Novocirab@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is so fascinating that the factory lector was/is a thing
  
  The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers’ culture. (El lector – paywall)
  
  This article has some marvellous historical photos, really worth a look
  
  rarehistoricalphotos.com/factory-lectors-1910/
  
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  - user_name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The article is on JSTOR. If you are reading this comment and you live or work in Massachusetts you can get free JSTOR access. With more work (you have to go to a library) you can get free access if you live in New York State. If you live somewhere else, pick a library you know near you. You never know, sometimes even more municipal networks have access.
    
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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
He is reading the daily news paper right?

I recall a story about when the war factories in WW2 started playing the radio through the assembly line productivity increased.

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