With the fact that people have jobs, family obligations, school, and other legitimate reasons for not preparing for their talk, I will forgive a member for not being totally original in his/her talk, if the person just reads verbatim, I do agree, they might as well play a recording of the talk, I would even rather hear a computerized voice text-to-speech recording then someone who reads monotone, and doesn't always know how to say the hard-to-pronounce words, and just botches up the talk.
I personally prefer when someone does not even look at any text to read it, even if they prepared it. When they share personal experiences its the best and because its your you don't have to worry about anyone contesting you plagiarized it.