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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Then you think blind people don't read because their eyes don't decode words?[/quote]

Of course they read. But, to my point, it's a different skill than reading print or listening to an audiobook. They are all valid ways of reading a book, but they require different training and a different skill set. My point was, let's not lose, as a society, the ability to read in long form. [/quote]

Reading on a device is different from reading a hard copy document. Reading from a scroll is different from reading from a document in codex form.

What, exactly, are you afraid we as a society will lose?[/quote]

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