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In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not? (fedinsfw.app)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I love audiobooks and consume them frequently but I personally don't call it reading. It doesn't feel like the same activity to me. What do you think?

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I think there’s some wiggle room here. A lot of neurodivergent folks quite literally can’t focus on reading, and being able to do something else while listening to a book can actually help with retention for those folks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yes, in that wiggle room there is space for those folks that you're talking about, in a way I feel a bit included. Then there's those that have them as a background noise machine and feel that they've read the book.

    To second-screen watch a movie as is the same as to watch a movie?

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