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To: ProgressingAmerica

Why not just read what he wrote?


3 posted on 12/30/2023 9:26:51 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: HIDEK6; rlmorel; nicollo

Reading is not even close to being good enough. We need convenience. Convenience, convenience, convenience. We need to share information without hitting our pocket books.

I want to give 100 people a dozen books each. I want you to do the same. Do you know how much money that is? It should not cost us a penny to spread the blessings of liberty.

If enough people were reading the information they should be reading, then it would’ve worked already. It is clear that this has failed. It’s time to acknowledge the failure and it is time to move on to bigger and better things.

If just reading were enough, we wouldn’t have The 1619 Project.


8 posted on 12/30/2023 9:39:42 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: HIDEK6

I have always been a big reader, I used to read voluminously, but...over the last 10-15 years, my eyes have gotten to the point I simply cannot read as I used to, and barely at all.

I have had all kinds of medical input and tests, spent thousands of eyeglasses, but...the problem persists, so I had to find another way.

For me, I began listening to audiobooks, and it was a sort of salvation for me. IMO, from a perspective of absorbing material, I have to listen to it more than once to absorb any significant amount more than I would if I read it.

I have a library of more than a thousand audiobooks now, and I do re-listen often to them.

But, as other posters have noted, it is a “good use of time”. I listen when I am showering in the morning. I listen driving to work. I listen watching dishes. I listen mowing the lawn. I even listen laying in my hammock! (I can’t listen and read or watch something else though...it seems there is only one highway into my brain allowed at any time, one blocks the other.

I am a big believer in the utility of audiobooks, which is why I have become so enthusiastic associating with Freeper ProgressingAmerica...:)


32 posted on 12/31/2023 8:08:35 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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