Audiobooks vs Physical Books (Why Audiobooks Count as Reading)

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Жыл бұрын

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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@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

What do you think? Do audiobooks count as reading?

@DustyBookSniffers Жыл бұрын

Yes, Yes and Yes,

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

@@DustyBookSniffers I had a feeling you would!

@DesertThunderDownUnder 14 күн бұрын

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 📖👣🎧

@GinaLuciaReads 13 күн бұрын

@@DesertThunderDownUnder it sounds like you really prioritise you're mental and physical wellness. That's amazing

@zaidalhamdany9479 12 күн бұрын

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 🥰

@ericmontiel3234 Жыл бұрын

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.

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

Oh I don't think it's cheating at all. Still reading in my eyes!

@dukewhisky Жыл бұрын

Audiobooks definitely count but I can see how people would struggle to focus with them

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

Yep, not for everyone that's for sure!

@honestrox Жыл бұрын

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!

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's cheating at all. If it helps, it helps!

@soultiascriptorium Жыл бұрын

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.

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

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.

@CreativeTies_ Жыл бұрын

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.

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

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.

@KasSommers Жыл бұрын

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!"

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

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.

@hellofditties Жыл бұрын

it's a passive vs active thing but i think it still counts :3 you're right you still experience the same story.

@GinaLuciaReads Жыл бұрын

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.

@theresea.k5749 3 ай бұрын

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?

@khojichacha 2 ай бұрын

My question is somewhat different, does listening to some academic audiobook different than physical book

@GinaLuciaReads 2 ай бұрын

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