Audiobooks vs Physical Books (Why Audiobooks Count as Reading)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2022
- Do audiobooks count as reading? Is listening to books just a lazy form of reading? Is it cheating? Is it even the same as physically reading a book?
Today, once and for all, we find out!
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What do you think? Do audiobooks count as reading?
Yes, Yes and Yes,
@@DustyBookSniffers I had a feeling you would!
Audiobooks are not replacing physical books. They enrich our experience of reading and create a new room for bookish people to learn and enjoy their time; thanks indeed for your fabulous material, Gina 🥰
Thank you for your sharing your video. I engage with audiobooks, Apple Podcasts, and traditional physical books. I walk up to forty three kilometres per week, while walking I enjoy listening to podcasts or sometimes Audible downloads. The methodology to reading my expansive collection of physical books is that I walk at least ninety minutes each day, I then read a physical book for that same amount of time I invest into my overall physical wellbeing as my reward. I got to say nothing beats holding a book and curling up with one’s imagination of narrating and weaving in and out of the pool of thought from discovering words, decoding sentences, separating pages from chapters, underlining and highlighting language that just jumps at you. Reading is totally a gift to oneself. Happy reading and listening 📖👣🎧
@@DesertThunderDownUnder it sounds like you really prioritise you're mental and physical wellness. That's amazing
I listen to the audiobook AND put the physical one on my bookshelf in case I have time to physically read it. Plus, it's really nice looking at a book on the shelf and reminiscing about the story. Cheating, not cheating, I don't care. My opinion is I get lost in the world either way.
Oh I don't think it's cheating at all. Still reading in my eyes!
Audiobooks definitely count but I can see how people would struggle to focus with them
Yep, not for everyone that's for sure!
I always feel like it's cheating but I find that it really imprints better and I focus more when I'm listening to a book. I do both though!
I don't think it's cheating at all. If it helps, it helps!
I hybrid read so I definitely count audiobook as reading. Sometimes I do both at the same time or just listen to it while I’m doing something else around the house.
Yeah I really like that idea. I've been tempted to give it a go but it does involve signing up for something like audible I suppose.
First of: great Thumbnail.
Second I went through all versions of reading - physical, digital, audio and have found that for nonfiction reading a physical book is the option that I enjoy the most.
Thanks so much! It worked well for a previous video so I thought I'd replicate it. Yeah physical books work best for me too, especially for non-fiction. Fiction though, ebooks are just as good.
I am a hypocritical reading snob. I have read audiobooks and enjoyed a few of them. But it is SO dependent on the narrator. Often I ditch it partway through because I don't like the way they are narrating it. But I also know that blind students have all their text books read to them, and class notes. And blind readers often use audiobooks instead of braille books and I support that. But still, this little bit of my brain tries to tell me that audiobooks are not quite the real thing. The rest of my brain says "Shut up!"
Well I think it's fine for you to have personal preference. The snob comes out when we judge others for it, which I don't see you doing. I find audiobooks hard because sometimes I just don't like the narrator too, so I don't really listen to them. But if something were to change and audiobooks became way more convenient to me, then I'd still count them as reading.
it's a passive vs active thing but i think it still counts :3 you're right you still experience the same story.
Yeah. I'm sure some audiobook readers don't pay a lot of attention as well. But at the same time, I know a lot of skim readers for physical books.
Well, you can do that by watching a movie adaptation too, if the plot is the same as the book. Do you read the movie?
My question is somewhat different, does listening to some academic audiobook different than physical book
That's a good question! I would presume that's more podcast-like and requires a lot of focus to take everything in. But if you were listening to something like that I'd presume you'd take notes which would help with retention
If an illiterate person listens to an audiobook, is he/she reading it?
They are yes
@@GinaLuciaReads But an illiterate person can, by definition, not read? Right?