ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a reconstruction of different modes of hearing from a practice-oriented perspective. It examines the limits and possibilities of the sense of hearing on the basis of interviews focused on sensory practices relating to audiobooks and audio drama. Different sensory practices are systematized by contrasting them with visual reading practices and with reference to the autoethnographic study of screen-reader software used by blind people. This will show that the reception of talking books cannot automatically be labelled as reading, because specific aspects may be missing that are key to the practice of reading.
