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Originally Posted by leebase
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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.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Some of us like to think that education is an ongoing process, not something that stops once formal schooling ends.
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If I were to read Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, would I get the same experience as I do if I listen to a recording of it? Of course not--the speech was written to be spoken aloud. Conversely, a book is written to be read, not performed. Listening and reading are not the same thing.
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I think I'm seeing the core of the difference here.
Thing is there are many types of books and many reasons for reading them. To be entertained, to learn, to escape....
There are also many forms of entertainment and information transfer, reading, dramatic presentation, plays, speeches, allegories, fables, stories, newspaper articles, non-fiction, creative non-fiction and everything in between.
I do tend to take exception a bit when someone says they 'read' a book but actually listened to it. It is a different experience, not necessarily better or worse, but definitely different.
It's a bit like going to a play and then saying you've read Shakespeare.