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Originally Posted by Geralt
Nobody claimed MP3 player is an ereader. We just corrected you in assuming that people only "read" audiobooks through tablets and phones. Aside from them even some ereaders have the ability to play audiobooks.
I'm gonna repeat myself again because I don't think you get it. Audiobooks are books. They have the SAME content. Same words, same sentences. So in that sense when you read a book and "read" an audiobook you absorbed the same content in different manner. Same thing with ebook and paper book. Same content, different medium and way of reading it.
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Semi-related:
I volunteered for a long time at CNIB, a Canadian organization which assists blind or partially sighted individuals to adjust to the various details of their life/skills/interests around their vision loss. (I do not have vision loss myself).
In a counseling group, the facilitator (who has had vision loss for years) encouraged folks who had started using audio books to call it "reading". There were some who said it didn't feel like reading because they didn't have a book in their hand, so they were encouraged to grab a book, hold it, and when it sounded like long enough, turn the page over. Many of the people who used the services bought or borrowed a player that was called a "reader". The counselor who facilitated the group would sometimes talk with me about books he has read.
But I can see why most people would be uncomfortable with calling it "reading" if it took eight weeks of counseling for a group of blind folks to get comfortable with it
I also did teach myself grade one braille (I was able to braille greeting cards for people who asked), but that's a different issue.
I taught people with partial to total vision loss to knit, or to retain their pre-existing knitting skills, and I was taught to not shy away from using the word "see", or "read". ("See that needle with the bead on the end of it? That means you start a purl row")