Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and providing another level of interpretation and richness through the voices of gifted narrators. Further, audiobooks can add a new dimension to reading. Many people listen to a book while reading it at the same time, a practice known as “immersive reading.” The term began to take off in the late 1990s, rising steeply in the new century, which was, as it happens, when audiobooks began their own momentous ascent.

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