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Originally Posted by Catlady
Oh? Didn't you say earlier that listening to an audiobook was passive? Now you're saying it's active?
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No, you're misunderstanding me. It's a passive act, in that I'm not the one doing the reading, just as when I listen to music, I'm not the one playing the instruments. But there does of course have to be active comprehension involved, or else one gets nothing from either activity. For me, if I let music (or words) "wash over me", as you described earlier, then I'm not listening to it, I'm simply hearing something I don't understand.
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In which case "listening to" and "reading" are equivalent.
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Both "listening to an audiobook" and "reading a printed book (or ebook)" are activities which result in you gaining knowledge of the book's contents, but the knowledge is gained through different input methods, to which the English language assigns different verbs.