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How many people listened to audiobooks (or anything non-music) on cassette tape? On a Walkman? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not audibooks but as a kid I had tons of radio plays on cassette. Are those only popular in Germany?

The most popular ones were about groups of 3-6 kids doing detective work or going on other adventures. The biggest one was ??? (The Three Questionmarks). I think there are still new episodes coming out today with the protagonists being adults by now. I even went to a live performance once. It was awesome.

But often TV shows got also turned into radio plays. More often than not they would take the audio from the show 1:1 and put it on cassettes. I had Ducktales, TMNT and a weird Playmobil one. For some of these I would actually see the original TV episode much later but would finally realise what the weird sound effects were supposed to represent.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The library had books on tape in those big molded plastic cases. Like 20 tapes per book sometimes. We'd take a couple of those anytime we'd go on an overnight trip out of town.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I did in the 90's, but only when the library didn't have paper copies.

My grandma liked to listen to John Grisham novels on tape in her car; she drove a lot for work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Big time memories here. Yes books on tape were a big thing for people stuck to cars. My dad had a bunch of them.

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