I Hear America Reading: Why Listening to Audiobooks is not “Cheating”

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Lolita was my first audiobook. I had never read it, but being an English major, I had read about it, which had always seemed adequate. Then I stood in the library one day, and I saw the Lolita audiobook — 10 CDs snug in their sleeves like campers in sleeping bags. I thought, why not?