Anonymous #3 10w

(I’m using ‘you’ in the general sense, not you specifically op)

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Anonymous orangepopcornn 10w

Me tooooo!! My brothers claim it’s not really reading when I tell them I’m listening to an audiobook, mind you THEY DON’T READ IN ANY FORM!

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Anonymous OP 10w

i’ll genuinely become violent bc honestly it just reads as ableist if you don’t count it as reading sorry

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Anonymous #1 10w

I agree! I needed to prove a point to my brothers! Even my Children’s literature professor makes the same argument that you are still actively consuming literature 🙂‍↕️🫡

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Anonymous #3 10w

Thank you for bringing up that other component I had not even considered about those that can only “read” with the use of audiobooks! That makes a great point in building an argument with audiobooks being a form of reading!

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Anonymous #4 10w

I used to not think so but since most people have an internal monologue it’s almost the same thing. I don’t but I use that logic

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Anonymous OP 10w

Yup! Audiobooks are not only the original way stories were shared, but they make reading so much more accessible to those who physically can’t read, to those for whom reading poses a challenge, and to those who don’t have the time to dedicate to sitting and reading (think parents, people who work multiple jobs, people with other full-time care jobs, etc)

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Anonymous #6 10w

you can absolutely learn vocab from listening. that’s how every single one of us learned our first language

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Anonymous #5 10w

see this is the only valid “audiobooks aren’t reading” take, when it’s a personal thing. “I don’t count audiobooks because I personally don’t internalize them as well as print books” is valid. “Audiobooks don’t count as reading” wholesale general for everyone isn’t imo

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Anonymous #3 10w

Yeah but I mean actually perceiving it yourself. It’s not active reading but you are still consuming the literature in some way

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Anonymous #6 10w

wdym by “perceiving it yourself.” isn’t listening to something perceiving it? studies are showing that your brain reacts very similarly when reading an audiobooks vs reading a print book (except auditory cortex vs visual cortex ofc) so how are you defining “active reading”?

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Anonymous #3 10w

Using your own eyes to read any form of words on something else, whether a device or physical copy. Audiobooks to me are inactive active reading. You aren’t actually reading it it’s someone else reading it to you. Like storytelling. Someone else read it to you you’re listening to them tell you it. It’s just an offset form of taking in literature to me it isn’t that deep

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Anonymous #6 10w

what’s “inactive active reading”? sorry I’m just trying to understand your viewpoint

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