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Pick One: Which is your favorite way to read books? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by balderdash9 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you miaunderstand me.

You can still enjoy the content, but the process isn't reading that's all.

I enjoy them too. Audio books are great. Several members of my family are blind and it is a form we can enjoy.

Interestingly the fact that several people can enjoy an audiobook at once supports my argument that it is not reading... A somewhat solo pursuit unless someone reads aloud.

So, respectfully, I think you've got the wrong end of this stick.

But I do want to say that it gives me genuine pleasure that you've found a way to enjoy those stories.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Would you say that someone reading printed out lyrics is listening to music?

Maybe if they were looking at a musical score? Is that listening to music?

I'd suggest it is a way of experience it. But it certainly isn't listening to it.

I think reading is the same.

Audio books are not worse, not lesser, but they are different and that's why I'd say they are not reading.