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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know! I love reading [b](listening to audio books[/b]). I have loved reading ever since I learned to read. I have no other explanation. I read some for my book club. I only read books I enjoy. [/quote]

Is this really "reading"?  I have a friend who used to say she read 10 books a week.  I was like wow, how do you find the time?  Then I realized she was listening to audiobooks (in the car, out in the garden, mowing lawn, chores, etc).  Sometimes while reading I'll come across a word I've never seen before (don't know what it means or sometimes how to pronounce it).  I'll stop, look up the meaning and pronunciation and then re-read the sentence or paragraph again.  I would imagine most people don't do that with audiobooks.  I don't know, audiobooks just seems like "cheating" :roll: [/quote]

Do you make this inquisitive statement as you read zero books?

The scenario you mention certainly comes up with audiobooks and I'm more likely to just ignore it or use my context clues to get the meaning of the sentence without looking up the word, but this only becomes a problem when I'm having trouble understanding the book. This comes up more often in a scientific text (which I a more likely to listen to as well). For these though, I'll either have a hard copy of that text in hand or try to jot down some notes as I'm listening.

But I have friends who complain about me listening to audio books and say I'm not reading, but they sit watching reality TV. [/quote]

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