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Originally Posted by HarryT
My point is simply that reading and listening are not the same activity. Not better. Not worse. Just different. Audible's marketing slogan that listening to an audiobook is "reading" doesn't make it true.
I enjoy listening to audiobooks on long car journeys, but that's what I'm doing: I'm listening to them; I'm not "reading" them.
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But, as the Catlady said:
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Originally Posted by Catlady
If you define reading as consuming and comprehending the specified content, yes, they are synonymous.
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I personally wouldn't call listening to a book the same as reading a book, and most certainly not the "new reading", but it depends a bit on your definition of "reading" (saying that you can only read a book with your eyes isn't correct!).
And I can see where Audible comes from: somehow listening to an audiobook has a stigma (you don't count if you "only" listen to books), and it's one way to try to break it.