If you listen to an audiobook does it count as reading? Can you even say that you've actually read a book if you just listened to it? Are audiobooks surging in popularity just another consequence of today's tiktok-brain culture where you have to be constantly stimulated and thus can't simply sit down and focus on reading a real book, and instead have to be able to do something else while "reading"?
>>23621872If tiktok children are turning to audiobooks that's a more hopeful development than most others presented. I pray it is the case. You don't realize how rare it is for kids to read these days.
>>23621876>tiktok childrenAdults are also a victim of this. Not necessarily tiktok, but facebook/instagram reels and youtube shorts and social media in general also contribute to it.
>>23621881Right, so if they're listening to audiobooks, even if they're missing half of what they hear and I think that's an extreme, it's a far brighter outcome than people who neither read nor listen to books. Saying audiobooks are inferior or problematic in a post tiktok world is splitting hairs on a balding man, the scope is all wrong
