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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

Audio books are fantastic, but reading and listening are different things. When reading, the pace and tone and inflections and character voices all come from you. Not so with an audio book.

Now, books today may be written with audio books in mind, but War and Peace was not written "for" audio. One might well argue that to consume the text as a fluent Russian and French reader would be "closest" to Tolstoy's meaning.

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