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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 3 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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[–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

I think the important part is how much you retain. Listening is more passive, but that's no reason to gatekeep the thing.

Edit: but to be clear no, it's not literally reading. Still a fairly common thing to say, kinda figuratively I guess, about audio books, which I don't think is a problem either.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure I understand the comment about gatekeeping. Can you please explain what you mean by that?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    When people say audio books aren't reading, they mean one of two things: that it's not literally reading words, which is true, or that it's not "proper reading like I do", which is gatekeepey and elitist and awkward. There's a ton of individual differences in how you understand/retain information and which media are better for you.

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