Book Club on Yik Yak | i think audiobooks is a totally viable way or consuming a book, but the word “reading” sounds wrong. like, you didn’t READ it. “listen” doesn’t sound right either. there needs to be another word

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Book Club 17w

i think audiobooks is a totally viable way or consuming a book, but the word “reading” sounds wrong. like, you didn’t READ it. “listen” doesn’t sound right either. there needs to be another word

Anonymous 17w

I mean nah, they listened to an audiobook, we just need to reduce stigmas around the word listening in book spaces lol

Anonymous 17w

Consume but in the most eldritch font imaginable

Anonymous 16w

I get what you’re saying but I don’t understand why “read” can’t be used for audiobooks for the purposes of discussing stories one has consumed and their thoughts on books

Anonymous 16w

I call it ear reading. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anonymous 17w

Absorbed the information

Anonymous 16w

Tuning into the book

Anonymous

#2 17w

I read this as consumé, as in the soup

Anonymous

#4 16w

it totally can, it just doesn’t feel right to me. it feels like saying you read a movie, or you watched a book

Anonymous

#4 16w

I mean, hell, books went from referring specifically to a type of printed media (don’t know if there’s a perfect definition of book or if it’s one of those “define chair” situations) to referring to printed, digital, and audio stories. Definitions change when it’s useful and I think that’s the beauty of language

Anonymous

#5 16w

ooo that intrigues me

Anonymous

OP 16w

Coworker’s little brother has dyslexia and he loves ear reading - that’s what they call it.

Anonymous

OP 16w

tbh I have some published screenplays of movies and I’ll say I read those movies when I talk about them