[patrickt]

When I read, I make notes, I look up words, I might pause and consider a passage just read.I might read the sentence a second or a third time to make sure I'm getting the sense of it. When I listen to a book being read, and I'll admit I've never been able to listen to a whole book,I tend to do other things. I'm driving the car or fixing dinner or wondering what I'll do tomorrow morning as the reader reads.

I prefer reading and like most here,when someone is reading to me, I use the word listening. When I was in school, I learned more reading than I did having a teacher read to me. I remember telling an English teacher in high school that she didn't need to read the poems to me, I could read them on my own. Her response was, "I wish everyone could and would."