"Reading" is just one particular way of consuming books. You're not missing out on anything just because you didn't interpret a bunch of squiggly ink lines that were typeset by a publisher. The sentences that the author intended you to comprehend are still going into your head, one way or another.

Your analogy is dogshit. AI slop can be art because art is about people attaching meaning to patterns, it doesn't really matter where they come from.

trve
braille isn't reading either

Books are a modern invention.
For literally hundreds of thousands of years human beings could neither read (by and large) nor mass produce texts.
Speaking and listening is the way your ancestors spread stories for all that time.

No.

Nothing in your comparison works.
You are just trying to use stale bait to get people to argue about audiobooks again.

This isn't twatter. You don't get paid to rage bait here.

>>25012357
Sometimes I read with my ears.

Sometimes the narrator does such an exceptional job that it behooves one to listen to the audio version.

>>25012549
A great example is Dracula read by Christopher Lee.
His voice is perfect for reading gothic horror and he did a fantastic job of it.

>>25012387
But he DOES get paid to screenshot this thread and post it on Twitter/reddit/tiktok/wherever, probably