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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't think audiobook should count. Reading is not the same as listening. Besides, if audiobooks were to count, then so should movie adaptations of books. And I don't think they should count.
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I wouldn't agree entirely. A movie tells me what to think about everything, and tells me a very abridged version (and often changed) version of the story.
When I read a book, I have to "create a picture" of everything, based on the author's words.
I'll agree that an audiobook is a more passive way of experiencing a story, and the narrator "creates the picture" in terms of the characters' tone of voice, etc. Sometimes a phrase will catch my "ear" and I'll think, "I don't think that's how the author meant that..." But the narrator does supply that one part that I'd have to while reading visually.
But the audiobook - at least the unabridged one - contains the author's entire work and I still "create a picture" as I listen of the setting and the characters and so on.
It's not my first choice, but given the project I was on this year, it turned out to be the only way I had time to experience many books this year. I could listen on the way to work, sometimes when doing something tedious at work, on the way home, while doing household tasks... My TV has been off more this year than ever before.
I hope next year I can visually read more and listen less. Heck, even if it's just to be able to skim certain scenes! I don't know if the official rules for this challenge excluded audiobooks, and if they did, then - for this challenge - I'd have to discount them.
But for myself, I'm counting them.