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Originally Posted by issybird

An opinion piece in the New York Times yesterday weighs in: Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It?

This sounds right to me:

It's particularly interesting to me that when they give the "advantage" to print, what they mean is "print is easier; listening is harder". Which is in stark contrast to the baseless assertions in this thread that listening is easy and passive, as opposed to print which makes you work harder.