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  • What's the difference, neurologically speaking, between reading a physical book and listening to an audiobook? (Abhi Sharma, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Science Of Narrative Structure
    Walker Rhea
    Even very different kinds of books share some common characteristics, like the pattern of their function words. These are the short connector words such as pronouns and prepositions, as well as articles, conjunctions, negations and auxiliary verbs.