It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic ...

It's a social media debate many a book lover has fallen into, but here's why everyone should be allowed to read however — and whatever — they choose Getty It’s an opinion that book lovers often share ...

Streaming audio has been a godsend for people who want to keep up with the news. Rather than sitting and reading an article, we increasingly listen to news podcasts on-demand while walking, audiobooks ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...

We cover a lot of debates on this program about policy, ethics, the law. Well, here's another one that draws strong opinions. Does listening to an audiobook count as reading? Andrew Limbong, host of ...

Most experts agree that audiobooks have completely changed the way books are consumed today. Audiobooks allow those who aren't fans of reading physical books a new way to consume the content, while ...

In the early days of television, some proponents confidently claimed that it would shortly replace textbooks for learning (Vandermeer, 1948), while others apparently worried that television would ...

This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids ...

A recent New York Times opinion piece by Daniel Willingham addressed the question of whether listening to a book is the same as reading it. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, ...

Google News introduces Listen feature for hands-free headline reading via AI text-to-speech. Ideal for commuters preferring ...

When was the last time you got lost in a book? These days, the act of 'deep reading,' or reading with intention, can be difficult to practice. Maryanne Wolf, an expert in the science of reading, ...

Don't feel like just reading a response you receive from OpenAI's ChatGPT? Well, now you can sit back and listen to it. Already available in the mobile app and rolling out to the website, a feature ...