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Originally Posted by Catlady
Listening is passive. Reading is active.
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Perhaps, but either is a way of processing information, and in the case of books, the same information. You can learn by listening or looking (or touching; i.e. Braille).
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It's similar to the difference between going to the theater and seeing a live performance, and sitting at home watching a video of the performance on PBS, for example. Even though the content is exactly the same, the experience is completely different.
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I don't think that the comparison is similar. In the case of going to a live performance versus watching a video of the exact same live performance, the way of processing the information is the same.
Of course it's often nicer to go to the theatre, but that's because of the environment and scale. Live, everything is all around and in the moment, while on video you're focused on a small screen.
I don't see a similar difference in reading text versus listening to someone speaking the text.