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Originally Posted by 4691mls
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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Look at my profile. I've been here for years and I do observe this behavior. There is a "book snobbery" that underpins many topics here. If you don't see it, ok. But I do.
The example I was replying to about folks IRL book clubs being upset when a member listened to the book is just an example of the same mindset I see here (not everyone, not all the time, not ever thread...<insert every other type of exception here>)