Just let one's ears do the reading, for a change. Especially applicable after returning to sleep position in bed on a frigid or stormy-winter weekend day.
Or Old Pops occasionally listening to something besides the Classic Country station during the day-long monotony of riding in the air-conditioned combine. But OTOH, a good thing even the bygone days of audio libraries on cassette tapes and musical jingles over portable transistor radios weren't available when Philo Farnsworth was plowing as a youth. Would have distracted him from mulling over early electronic designs in his mind to the kill the time and that back and forth motion across the family fields providing inspiration for television scanning lines and the image dissector.
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