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Originally Posted by Catlady
Has someone argued that the very existence of audio books is an abomination, or called for the public flogging of those who listen to them? If so, I must have missed it.
Listening to a book is an alternative to reading a book, it is not reading.
If your kid's teacher reads a book aloud to the class, has your child read the book?
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Someone *did* imply that adoption of audiobook listening would bring down democracy, and also probably take up dirty dancing.
OK, maybe I made up the last one.
Still, I see this as so much intellectual snobbery. Saying that "you read to learn" implies that one doesn't learn (or doesn't learn as much) from an audiobook. Since learning styles are subjective and vary from person to person, this is a meaningless statement.
The only thing you can say is that YOU don't learn as much from audiobooks. Which would be useful if this were a poll on learning styles.
