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I do that too at times.

Sometimes I'm more interested in the tech scene's opinion on an article than the actual article itself.

Other times, if an article is excessively long, or is a video, I look for someone that summarised the gist.

On that note - am I the only one who would prefer to read transcripts of videos than watch videos themselves? Specifically news sites that only have the video report and not any accompanying text.



I would like this too - I can read way faster than I can listen. Listening is awful.


100% agree - it especially irks me on certain blogs where there is clearly a script that the person is going off of, but they can't be arsed to post that alongside the video of them talking into a camera. Or worse, a technical subject, where they are performing a complicated set of steps, including arcane terminal incantations. Lossy video compression really helps out with making that readable \s.

It doesn't help that I'm basically in one ear and out the other with my auditory memory and almost photographic visually...


I made a similar comments about videos vs text and got quite a few upvotes. So I imagine it's a similar sentiment among the HN crowd at least.




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