#armedwithink

To our ever loving contributors to YOUTUBE!

A few weeks ago I was at work complaining to my co worker about having to do these assigned readings that were just too lengthy and not at all what I want to read (at the moment) when one of my -many- genius customers reminded me that audio reading is a thing ! And boom, lightbulb.

So while of course I wasn’t going to go and spend my own money on audio versions of books just for specific chapters, I first put my speak option to the test on my IPhone. For you android users out there, it’s just a small feature that allows us to have highlighted text read out loud. When this inevitably failed because I hated the auto mechanical voice and realized it’s shitty for when it’s pages on pages of reading material, I turned to YouTube.

While for the most part I was seriously doubtful I would find any of these assigned readings I’d never heard, behold - there they were! Suddenly a reading that would have taken four hours to simultaneously read and break down - was only going to take me the ten or fifteen minutes with the read aloud someone decided to do for some crazy reason. For a moment I thought, these people are crazy why the hell would they want to record this damn story - I realize it’s probably to save people like me from killing themselves via papercut.

Suffice to say this got me through my last short paper for this term which I had no interest in finishing.

Thanks to youtubers I have finished paper before midnight and squeezed in a movie with the family.