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Originally Posted by HarryT
In musical terms, it's the difference between playing a piece of music, and listening to someone else play it. Yes, the notes are the same, but they are very different experiences. One is active, the other passive.
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If the point is to consume the content, does it matter? Listening to a piece of music isn't going to teach me to play music, but if my aim is to experience the music, I don't need to know how to play it. I'm not listening to an audiobook to learn to sight-read; I'm listening to absorb and enjoy the content.
Using my sense of hearing to read an audiobook is no more or less passive than using my sense of sight to read words on a page.
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Originally Posted by patrickt
Of course not. Listening to audiobooks has the same technical skills as listening to drunks crying in their beer.
Where I worked we gave up trying to have police officers write reports. Their handwriting, spelling, and structure was horrible. It was so bad people laughed at the reports. Only a handful could write a decent report. All of these officers had high school degrees and some had college degrees. Generally, they couldn't write. So, we had them carry inexpensive tape recorders and dictate their reports to be typed by typists. I suppose in your world, they were still "writing" their reports.
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Handwriting and spelling are separate issues. However, if they didn't understand how to structure content, I don't know that a tape recorder would really help. But, in any case, dictating into a tape recorder is definitely writing.
Right now, I could be dictating to a computer program that translates my speech to words on a screen. How would you know?