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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
There's no need to reposition what I wrote out. There is nothing "wrong" with listening to books -- from a professional reader or your gran. It's an alternative.
But it is not the same experience as actually reading them to yourself. Reading a print book, reading an ebook: if it's the same book, it's the same book experience and the same set of literacy skills exercised to consume it.
I am concerned that a frightening number of participants in a forum dedicated to reading books don't actually read them. Listening skills, and reading comprehension skills, are different.
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What utter hogwash. There is absolutely no difference between reading and listening to a book among adults talking about the books they have "read" on a web forum.
Perhaps were we speaking of children who are still learning to read....ther could be a minor point to be made.
But to be FRIGHTENED that adults talking on a web forum about a book they have read, when they listened instead, is absurd even given the obvious hyperbole.
I read about 40 books a year and listen to 10 or so. I say that I've read 50 books because there is no difference worth mentioning between the two. I comprehend them equally well. But if not, if I did have trouble reading - then it's fantastic that I would still enjoy books via audio books. I would in no way feel inferior talking amongs the "real readers" about those books.
I surely hope your moronic differentiation hasn't scarred sone poor soul who thought they were participating as an equal talking about the books they "read" via an audiobook.
Lee