I don't think people in this thread are looking down on listening to books. In fact a number of us have said that we think reading and listening are both legitimate ways of taking in a book. It's just that some of us believe the words reading and listening refer to different methods of taking in content and that the words should not be used interchangeably. I wish we could find a word that could be used to mean "taking in a book in any manner", and then use the words "reading" or "listening" to refer to the specific way in which we did so.
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