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?

  • Hirohito@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
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    9 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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      9 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.