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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
We have taken some long car trips recently, and instead of listening to music (my husband doesn't understand why I cringe when he looks at his phone while we are driving at 80 mph), we decided to get some audiobooks. I used to check these out from the library, but you can't listen to them on your phone anymore.
I went to audible, and the tag line is "listening is the new reading." NO IT ISN'T. There is a time and place for audiobooks, but to replace reading? I know reading isn't terribly popular, but I didn't know it needed a replacement. I am just appalled at this. I guess it is consistent with my millennial daughter-when we were going over her budget, I questioned a subscription to audible. She said "Oh, you don't want me to read?"
This is like "estate tax" being rebranded to "death tax." When did reading become confused with listening?
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on tablets you can listen and read at the same time while it highlights text. i only use it to get threw a hard read. If I buy a ebook only to find each chapter is 100 pages then i am using audible lol