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Old 10-08-2021, 12:51 AM   #196
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
I get that listening to an audiobook is not exactly the same as reading it yourself but to me they're no different to reading a book in school class or getting a story read by your parents when you were a child. Heck, when I had a damaged cornea, my wife read books to me and I'll fight anyone telling me it's "not real".
There is a long thread a while ago discussing listening vs reading. I think it was triggered by a statement somewhere along the lines of "listening is the new reading". There were lots of arguments about whether listening to an audiobook was the same as reading an ebook/pbook. I'll admit that at the start of the thread, I would have said they were different. But, now, I tend to think that while the process is different, the end result is close enough that if you said "I read x books last year", including audiobooks in that number is reasonable.

Of course, I would be annoyed if you said "I am currently reading..." when you are actually listening to an audiobook. I am sure that the end result is the same, but, the action is not.
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