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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!

And aren't audio books just a reinvention of how stories were passed around before written books?

I still think of audiobooks as Books on Tape.
Don't miss those horrid cassettes at all.

I liked the little compact ones I got from the public library, it's how I listened to a good portion of the Halo novels