When Briggitte Suastegui heard about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odyssey, she wanted to go back to its source material. She decided to start reading The Iliad first but had trouble getting through it.

Suastegui’s friend had a suggestion for her: Why not try the audiobook?

“He was like, ‘Well, you know the oral tradition of epic poems, right?'” Suastegui remembered. “‘Originally these things were shared down and passed down orally.'”

But Suastegui, 29, said she often lost her place while listening. So she took it a step further: She tried reading a physical copy of The Iliad and listening to the audiobook version at the same time.

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