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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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Unfortunately, you don't understand the concept of reading. A reader and a listener are not doing the same thing. One reads a book and the other listens to someone who can read, read the book to them. I suppose getting up, going to work, and getting a paycheck is the same as sitting in front of the television and getting a check from the government. Same money, same thing. No, it isn't the same thing and reading and being read to by someone who can read isn't the same thing.
I am certainly not opposed to being read to. My mother used to read "Henny Penny: The Little Red Hen" to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it and my mother read it to me enough I memorized it. But, then I learned to read.
I grew up listening to radio dramas and they could engage me for the necessary half-hour but I really preferred reading. And, no, they were not the same thing. I've tried to listen to audioboioks as I drive on trips but I end up switching to music. Oh, and playing a flute is not the same as listening to someone else play a flute. Same instrument. Same music. Not the same thing.
I wonder if there's a forum where people can record messages so those who prefer to be read to can listen to dramatic renditions.