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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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Who cares about something "counting" as reading in the first place?
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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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If you're in 4th grade and only get Pizza Hut BOOK IT! points when it "counts"...
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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 read the transcripts of audiobooks
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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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