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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is a separate discussion from the "audiobook worth" discussion, but there have been several studies about about how the rise of social media, chat room boards, video reporting, etc. have affected the ability of adults (I assume the studies were done on English speakers/readers) to read and comprehend long form writing, like detailed news articles, novels, etc. It's a skill that you lose without practice. Does it matter? That's a different discussion. [/quote]

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