In your opinion (humble or otherwise) does listening to an audiobook count as "reading a book?" #cosobookclub #CoSoBooks #bibliophiles #opencarrybooks
@MotherDucker
FWIW I see this Q a lot. The prose is the same, many are unabridged, thus verbatim to the letter. Good actors bring the words to life.
More importantly, people digest & learn in their own way. Those more auditory benefit from audiobooks. Discounting listeners as lesser really is an insensitive perspective.
@LoChinajm couldn't agree more. The other day I had seen an article pop up in my feed that was about Elitism among readers where audiobooks are concerned and it boggled me. The thing I love most about reading is that it reduces stress and builds empathy. No matter what format you choose, your horizons are expanded and you learn new things about yourself and others.
@MotherDucker what about Braille? These are strange questions. The people who are asserting audiobooks don’t count- what sort of weird score keeping are they doing?
@MookyTroubadour I feel like it's the list makers who pride themselves on word counts and pages read. Those folks are so often among the ilk who will still savagely review books on Goodreads and the like, after having started the review with "DNF--but..."
I got into a pretty heated argument with a bookish acquaintance (and coworker) about this (and the rating when they didn't actually finish the story.)
@MotherDucker it it has to be an unabridged version!
@MotherDucker Someone reminded us that stories were told by voice for much longer than told by paper. So, technically, that's OG reading. ;)
@MotherDucker Yes, very much so.