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Originally Posted by ApK
If you are still trying to LEARN to read, and your teacher assigns you a book report, and you listen to it instead of reading it, then yes, you are missing out on the practice at the decoding part of reading, and "cheating" on your assignment. But for literate adults...no, and if your fellow book club members give you a hard time because you listened to rather than read this month's selection, then you can show them the study and tell them what they can do with it. :-)
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I agree, it all depends on the original reason for reading. If you're learning the letters and words, it's important to see them. In that case, the story is only second to the learning the art of reading (second, but still important, naturally!)
If you're reading for pleasure, does it matter how you do it? You're most likely reading to broaden your horizon, to be able to transfer into the main character, to "see" what is happening in your mind. The story is more important, the way the story is told to you less so.
(though, you can get weird situations if you only read the audiobook... I have only listerend to the Game of Thrones and always thought one of the main characters name was "Geoffrey", so when the series came out (which I've never seen, only sometimes read about), I wondered who "Joffrey" was
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