I love audiobooks and consume them frequently but I personally don’t call it reading. It doesn’t feel like the same activity to me. What do you think?

  • amio@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think the important part is how much you retain. Listening is more passive, but that’s no reason to gatekeep the thing.

    Edit: but to be clear no, it’s not literally reading. Still a fairly common thing to say, kinda figuratively I guess, about audio books, which I don’t think is a problem either.

    • Hirohito@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m not sure I understand the comment about gatekeeping. Can you please explain what you mean by that?

      • amio@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        When people say audio books aren’t reading, they mean one of two things: that it’s not literally reading words, which is true, or that it’s not “proper reading like I do”, which is gatekeepey and elitist and awkward. There’s a ton of individual differences in how you understand/retain information and which media are better for you.