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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not disagreeing with you that they all achieve the purpose of imparting information - I can learn by listening as well as by reading. I just don't personally consider the two to be synonymous. If you do, that's fine with me.
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I guess there are degrees of fidelity.
Certainly if I've seen an TV/movie adaptation of a book, even a really good and faithful one, I wouldn't say I've read it. But if I listened to the unabridged audiobook, I think I can say I read it, without much reservation. I think reading and listening are fairly equivalent if your listening comprehension is on par with reading comprehension, which is probably not the case for most people, as listening is NOT easy.
Now: if Mary read Anna Karenina in translation and Maria listened to it in Russian, who came closer to having "read" the book? If you asked Tolstoi, whom would he pick? Probably Maria.