I see we are choosing violence today … Audiobooks are not reading. When I read to my toddler, the toddler was not reading, she was being read to. Which is 100% fine and good and awesome. Just not the same thing is all.
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Yeah this is a “simple nuance ruined by intellectual snobbery” situation. Audiobooks are a great way to engage with stories and not some ‘lesser than’ medium but no, you didn’t read the book.
aug 8, 2025, 8:47 pm • 3 0 • view
EXACTLY!
aug 8, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m gonna disagree www.discovermagazine.com/audiobooks-o...
aug 8, 2025, 9:27 pm • 4 0 • view
You are utterly missing my point
aug 8, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean by giving the opinion as “cancellable” I feel like you had to know people could possibly disagree. And beyond that, I think the concept of reading goes beyond the act of input.
aug 8, 2025, 9:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Not to mention the high number of people who when reading have a voice in their head that reads it aloud. So basically an audio book, we’re just quibbling about the narrator.
aug 8, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m more quibbling when people say they read a book when they listened to an audiobook.
aug 8, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And I’m saying I personally would consider that person to have read the book. They took in the same words you did, their brain processed it the same way. (If they’re one of those who hear the things they read in their head, even less difference, cause then it’s just the voice saying it aloud)
aug 8, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
So my daughter read dozens of books before she could read.
aug 8, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean both stimulate the brain the same (positive) way. She got the same words, heard the same story, processed it the same way. So I'd say yes.
aug 8, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
If you go on any book spaces you’ll see how every month someone posts that it isn’t reading, sometimes for clout because they know the response, and they get slaughtered. Because it is reading. Every writer I know or follow says it is & I think they are experts 🤷🏻♀️ It’s also ableist to say it’s not
aug 8, 2025, 9:59 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m not saying it’s lesser. I’m saying it’s different.
aug 8, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ll just hide all my audiobook reviews from you 😉
aug 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Hahaha No problem Hey it IS my most cancellable take
aug 8, 2025, 10:14 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 8, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
This feels like a “let language evolve” situation
aug 8, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
lol I died on this hill last summer re: summer reading assignments. Idc if every other student in the universe is doing audiobooks - you need to practice reading with your eyes!
aug 8, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view