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Originally Posted by HarryT
Which have you been doing? Reading a book, or listening to someone else read it? Surely you accept that the two activities are not synonymous? I'm not saying that one is "better" than another; simply that they are different. Listening is not reading.
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So what? We aren’t in grammar school. We all know how to read or we couldn’t participate here.
If I read a book I have not done some mystically superior activity over listening to a book.
I get that reading isn’t the same as listening...what I don’t understand is SO WHAT? Other than school age kids learning to read....who is impacted in some way if they listened to a book rather than read it?
If I’m laying on the couch or in bed, I read a book. If I’m commuting to work, driving or flying on a trip, I listen to audio books.
I like the tag line as I take it to mean “because of audio books, I’m reading books like I haven’t in a long time...listening is the new reading”
And SO WHAT...if someone doesn’t read very well and yet is able to enjoy books by listening. Good for them! Why should we withhold the enjoyment of books just because some people don’t read so well. Let the joy of the story entice them to read vs. letting the difficulty some have in reading forever turn them off to books