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!bookworms !redscarepod Do audiobooks count as reading? Do you listen to audiobooks?
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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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