Anonymous freestyle 12w

i found that listening to an audiobook whike working out is a good way to meet both those literature and fitness goals!

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Anonymous OP 12w

I’m ngl I need to be hyped while I workout. I can’t hit a squat pr to an audiobook

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Anonymous freestyle 12w

if you are interested and getting into more literature you can listen to audiobooks doing anything really on long drives, or cleaning or right before you go to sleep. it's how I got back into reading bc it's alao hard for me to just sit down and read ya know? plus the people who narrate the books are usually voice actors so it makes it a lot more engaging

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Anonymous #4 12w

yeah this is honestly really disappointing to see :/

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i'm not booing him? i was offering an alternative way to get into reading incase he's interested. it's never too late to get into it :)

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Anonymous #9 12w

But I’ve been working my way through the Poirot novels again. It’s been years since I last read them and I’ve just checked out a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Anonymous OP 12w

Does listening to audiobooks count as reading? And if so wouldn’t listening to long form YouTube videos also count. (Be it about science, political theory, history, true crime, or weird internet drama) Since you are getting information through auditory means?

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Anonymous #10 12w

I'm going to have to disagree. I feel like that be more of an equivalent to a podcast. Since they are more forms of commentary than like a novel. An audiobook is just someone reading the book outloud whereas one of those long form youtube videos abt various topics usually are a compilation of research from different sources.

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Anonymous OP 12w

Well then I can argue that they’re reading a script and a script is like a book… Like have you ever read Shakespeare in a class or something like that… that’s technically a script.

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Anonymous #10 12w

yes i have but it's not really a book. it's a script. i actually read plays all the time, but if that was the case then seeing movies and tv shows and plays and musicals would also count as reading when they don't. if you are listening to an audio book of one person reading like a Tennessee Williams play the yes but again a long form video essay isn't storytelling. it's an gathering of information and research told in a presentational style. like listening to a presentation in class

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Anonymous OP 12w

this isn't to say you aren't learning and taking in valuable information and that it isn't a respectable hobby though! i myself love a good video essay but if someone told me they read and i asked them their favorite author and they told me a youtuber who hasn't written a book. i'd be confused. audiobooks don't have a visual element to it and i think that's what separates it from a script since scripts are specifically written to be performed.

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Anonymous OP 12w

there is a big difference between reading script and then watching the play/movie/video. like have you ever seen a shakespeare play?

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