Does listening to an audiobook count as reading a book?

[aleshemsky83]

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[Pharrell Williams]

What even is reading if you think about it

 

[Bee Sheriff]

Yes it counts but no you can't say you read it

you can fully participate in any discussion of the novel while maintaining that you listened to the audiobook

 

[aleshemsky83]

What even is reading if you think about it

This is very serious Olli, no jokes

 

[beowulf]

I would think not.

 

[Bones Malone]

Reading's fer NERDS!!!!

 

[Langdon Alger]

Yes it counts but no you can't say you read it

you can fully participate in any discussion of the novel while maintaining that you listened to the audiobook

This is the correct answer.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

just read it you lazy ****

 

[Langdon Alger]

just read it you lazy ****

Not neccesarily a lazy thing. For me, I can focus on an audio book better than when I read. Unless you think having ADD is laziness.

 

[Siamese Dream]

I don't like audiobooks because I can do it quicker by reading it myself

 

[hotcarle]

It counts as listening to a book.

 

[Kyle93]

Yes it does. Great for when commuting to and from work/school as well.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Missing poll option #4: Of course it bloody doesn't you dumbo.

 

[JA]

Does reading a radio broadcast transcript count as listening to the radio?

 

[Hippasus]

My two cents: Reading a book is just the standard of going through some linguistic content somewhat resembling the book format (e.g. is of a certain length) with the purpose of taking it in as a reader / listener. So audio books should absolutely count in my book. I went through the audio CDs of something like a university course, and it was more in-depth than a lot of the books I more literally read.

 

[JA]

My two cents: Reading a book is just the standard of going through some linguistic content somewhat resembling the book format (e.g. is of a certain length) with the purpose of taking it in as a reader / listener. So audio books should absolutely count in my book. I went through the audio CDs of something like a university course, and it was more in-depth than a lot of the books I more literally read.

You can be illiterate and still successfully listen to an audiobook. The activity of reading is defined as the active comprehension of published text.

If somebody reads to you, you aren't reading -- you're listening.

Does it make sense that an illiterate person can't read, yet they can read a book?

 

[John Price]

 

[sully1410]

Yes...for the person that's reading it to you

 

[Finnish your Czech]

Based on the literal definition, no.

But that's just semantics! Is listening to an audiobook inherently worse than reading it?? Nope!

 

[quoipourquoi]

Yes it does. Great for when commuting to and from work/school as well.

That was my thought too. I drive 4-5 hours straight on Saturdays and Sundays, so I've been doing audiobooks. At first I felt like it was cheating because I have these books on my shelf, but now I actually prefer it with autobiographies.

 

[Hippasus]

You can be illiterate and still successfully listen to an audiobook. The activity of reading is defined as the active comprehension of published text.

If somebody reads to you, you aren't reading -- you're listening.

Does it make sense that an illiterate person can't read, yet they can read a book?

Probably not. A truly illiterate person probably wouldn't understand an audio book either. So if I sat a toddler in front of the speakers when I was playing my audio CDs on comparative religion or something, that toddler wouldn't be reading. An audio book is like a very, very long PowerPoint presentation, with many, many bullet-points. Not too unlike some books. I am using the phrase 'reading a book' in a looser sense.

 

[Help]

Yes it's the exact same

 

[v-man]

No, "reading" requires doing just that. A person has full knowledge of the contents of a book after having heard it, but they haven't read it by any means.

 

[Scrub*]

Does listening to a game on the radio mean the same thing as watching it? Think the OP might be onto something here. Time to go watch a book.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I learned a lot from this thread

I learned that there are those who think with their hearts. I learned that there are those who think with their heads. Those who hang on words, and those who would rather take a man at his intentions.

I'm ready to cast my vote

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