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Originally Posted by Catlady
This response is pretty harsh.
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Completely called for.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
One big difference between listening and reading is that reading helps to improve your reading and writing skills.
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Who the fluff cares? The context was people who had the audacity to participate on a forum saying they had read books when they only listened to them.
We aren't talking about school. I'm 46, I don't read to be educated, I read to be entertained. I don't need to practice my reading skills or work on my vocabulary.
I'll call out when some snobby twit tries to make folks feel inferior for daring to participate in book-talk when they listened to an audiobook. There is no basis for it....none at all.
Lee
You see how words are spelled and how punctuation is used, how sentences and paragraphs are structured. You can, if so inclined, look up an unfamiliar word and improve your vocabulary. You can linger over a sentence to suss out the meaning, or simply to appreciate its beauty.
Listening is just listening. You get the story, sure. But it's much more passive. I think it's fine to listen to audio books when one is on the move or can't read for some other reason, but I do believe a steady, exclusive diet of audio books would generally not be a good thing.[/QUOTE]