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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a listener, you are simply a consumer of someone else’s performance, whether that performance be the musician playing the instrument, or the narrator reading the book. When you read a book or play an instrument, on the other hand, you are creating the performance yourself. I regard these as entirely distinct activities.
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You're giving the reader to much credit I think. Reading a book is in no way the equivalent of creating
anything. A reader is experiencing the story just as passively/actively as a listener, in my opinion. In the end, you're both merely processing/consuming what someone else has created.