Text 1: Critic Park argues that the rise of audiobooks has expanded the audience for serious fiction. Listeners who would never sit down with a novel can engage with Tolstoy or Toni Morrison while commuting; the form makes literature available to busy modern lives.
Text 2: Critic Singh accepts that audiobooks reach new audiences but argues that "the same novel" through eyes and ears differs more than enthusiasts admit. Reading lets readers pause, reread a sentence, sit with a paragraph; listening, especially while multitasking, smooths the language into background sound. The audience expands, Singh contends, but so does the reader's distance from the text.
The authors most clearly disagree about
- Acheck_circle
whether the experience of an audiobook is meaningfully different from the experience of reading.
- B
whether audiobooks reach new audiences.
- C
whether Tolstoy wrote novels.
- D
whether modern lives are busy.
Explanation
Both accept that audiobooks expand reach. They differ on whether the experiences are equivalent. B captures the dispute.