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!bookworms !redscarepod Do audiobooks count as reading? Do you listen to audiobooks?
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Reading is a specific activity, you listen to audiobooks, you don't read them. Though I guess it does make it a bit awkward to convey to someone that you are familiar with the content.
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I read the transcripts of audiobooks
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Who cares about something "counting" as reading in the first place?
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If you're in 4th grade and only get Pizza Hut BOOK IT! points when it "counts"...
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People who can't read and are defensive about it, I guess? I don't care if you've read the book or listened to the audiobook, so long as the audiobook version wasn't some lame, dumbed-down, simple version.
But it's not reading. It doesn't really matter, except if someone can only handle the audiobook version as background noise while they're doing something else, then they get worked up about "I do too read books! Audiobooks count, right?"
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I guess there is some stigma around audiobooks
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It's cos having some British baritone drone on for six consecutive hours about some prigs in England somewhere or whatever while you play Runescape and idly sorta masturbate is very different from sitting under a light and pronouncing the words slowly with your lips as you look at them.
"I've read all the Nancy Drews"
no, r-slur, you just sorta heard them. Cogitating the texture of Mildred Wirt Benson's texts requires real engagement with them, and constant, focused rereads. You ain't fricking READ Nancy Drew, you grazed up against it, you fricking subliterate disgusting pervert c*nt
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I have processed the contents of this media piece
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i just have chatgpt do that for me.
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If you can't "read" an audiobook then why can I say that I "listened" to your opinion in this comment? Checkmate atheists
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I just lie and say I've read any audiobooks I've listened to, and there's nothing anyone can do about it because my listening recitation is better than most peoples reading recitation
*except for books with heavy diagrams and shit that you can't communicate well with just words/descriptions
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Audiobooks are not only not reading, they're worse than not reading.
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y?
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Of you're reading, you're thinking. If you're not reading, you're also thinking. Audiobooks actively stop you thinking because all your brain power is being used to listen.
Also, if you're "multitasking" by listening to an audiobook while doing something, you're either not listening to the book properly so you might as well just have background music on, or you're not concentrating on the task you're doing so you're going to do it badly because you aren't present.
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I agree with the second point but for the first I'd argue that reading is a more cognitively demanding process than listening
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To a degree, but humans are also much more intensely visual creatures so reading translates into understanding with much less cognitive load (especially if you're capable of the moving brain-pictures). Listening is always an active thing; you can't passively listen and if you try your brain tunes it out into noise. When you read you can enter a flow state where you're not consciously processing the information but you're much more deeply engaged with it.
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How are the illiterate going to care about a skeet that denigrates them
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I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some - people out there, in our nation, don't have maps and I believe that our education, like such as South Africa -and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should - our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we would be able to build up our future for…
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If you think audiobooks and reading are equivalent, explain how Peter did anything wrong here
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That reads like a dramatard in disguise
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Audiobooks are not reading. If you're blind or have some disability such that the only way you can access a book is by audiobooks, that's different. But "I'm too lazy/impatient to sit down and read a book" isn't the same thing as being disabled.
You're on a long journey and you listen to an audiobook, okay. But you can't say you've 'read' the book, anymore than you can say you've 'seen the play' if you listened to a radio performance.
Kids these days really don't have attention spans and need everything cut up for them into bite-size chunks, huh?
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literally who cares. It's all the same fricking shit, it's just information entering your brain. Heck if we could fricking eat books instead of reading or listening I would exclusively do that. reading is boring as frick. The information you get by reading is the fun part
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Good audio books
are kind of like a radio 
drama 
because theyre heavily edited for the spoken form. If you listen 
to someone litterally reading 
outloud youre losing 
out on the experiance unless youre doing something 
that requires you hands. However if you read audiobooks because you cant sit down and concentrate so the only way for you to 'read' is to play noise 
outload and be in the same room while it plays, i dont think 
youre comprehending and engaging with the material in the same way someone who reads it is.
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You can't properly digest a book in audio form. Can't easily reread lines or flip back a couple pages to reference something.
And it just gets terrible for long series, especially fantasy/sci-fi where you can't see a word to confirm it is some made up term, or a specific character.
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What the frick did you just fricking say about the fediverse , you fedib-word? If you feditrash it ever again I'm going to fedigotoyour home and fedicrush your skull you mentally fedivergent kid. I already fediblocked your fediinstance, because Its a fedisgrace on the fediverse, you fedickhead.
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