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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I listen to audiobooks, but I don’t consider it the same as reading. To me, reading, is using my eyes and decoding the words.
I don’t think listening to audiobooks is bad. I love it!

If listening to audiobooks is reading, then my infants know how to read! They listen to me read to them, but they are not reading. I love reading to them, and there is incredible value in that. But, IMO, listening is not the same as reading. But there is no shame in listening to books.[/quote]

It really depends on the context. The vast majority of the time people say “audiobooks don’t count” they are addressing someone who already knows how to decode, and they when someone says “I read that book” they aren’t saying “I decoded that book.” We are referring to the cognitive process of comprehension. And it’s funny because this usually comes up in the context of how many books someone read (which for the life of me I cannot understand why people keep count but whatever), not in the context of talking about a book you read. So it definitely carries this connotation of audiobooks “not counting,” presumably because it’s easier and people think of doing difficult things as a source of pride. [/quote]

People are so weird. I commented on that thread that I’ve read about 40 audiobooks. I can’t for the life of me sit down and read a physical book because I don’t have time, so that’s why I love audiobooks.[/quote]

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