#2834: Book Podcasts

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball, wearing headphones, is looking down towards a phone-sized device held in his hand. From Cueball's head small circles go up to a large thought bubble above him.]

Cueball: I need more podcasts to listen to while doing chores.

Cueball: Hey, someone should do a podcast where they just read through a book! Each chapter could be an episode...

[Caption below the comic:]

Every now and then I reinvent audiobooks from first principles.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:I've been working my way through this 1950s podcast by someone named John Tolkien called 'Lord of the Rings'--it's a deep dive into this fictional world he created. Good stuff, really bingeable!


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