Is it normal i listen to novels on tts instead of reading them?

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At night I feel exhausted and my eyes hurt when I try to read. I love reading novels and recently I started listening to them on tts instead of reading them. A friend of mine and also a reading enthusiast feels mad at me and have told me that it is disrespectful to the authors.
Is it normal to listen to novels on tts?

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Based on 23 votes (19 yes)
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  • Fugazi,again
    7 years ago

    They wouldn't make audio books if people weren't supposed to listen to them

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  • Couman
    7 years ago

    I've done that in the past. It's sort of nice having a story read to you... even if it's in a weird robotic voice. I suppose TTS has improved since then, I was using the one included in... must have been Windows 98, and it made some weird mistakes, such as pronouncing "pointed" as "poo-aunt"... like it was French or something, plus less surprising things like confusing homographs and mangling proper names.

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  • dytrog
    7 years ago

    Reading is getting to be a ting of the past. I like reading so I get more info from it than I do listening.
    I've read LOUIS L'AMOUR western books and listened to the same book and it left out a lot of the main caricature's thought's.

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