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Old 12-14-2017, 08:21 PM   #305
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How is it totally different? In what way? If you discuss a book with him does his having listened or read it affect the nature or validity of his comments and opinions?

Barry
Eyes vs ears.

You read a book. You listen to an audiobook.

What's the stigma for saying you listened to an audiobook? Why try to imply you read words when you listen to them?

I don't really discuss books with him but I listened to Alan Greenspan's Age of Turbulence. I personally think I would have retained more information had I read it. Too easy for me to get distracted with other things.
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