There's literally nothing wrong with reading audiobooks
>>25243605Problem is people don't actually 'read' them so much as put them on while doing the dishes.
>>25243605There's literally no such thing as reading audiobooks. Don't be retarded on purpose, you do it often enough as is.
>>25243614/threadimagine if people used/talked about physical books the way they talked about audiobooks>printed books aren't REALLY reading, language is oral first and written second>I can't focus on printed books at all. yes, I read printed books while washing the dishes with the other hand, or mowing the lawn, or doing chores that require focus, how did you know?>clearly audiobooks are inherently superior. yes, I listen to audiobooks by sitting on the couch and closing my eyes and doing nothing other than listening to the book. but that's because audiobooks are the superior form
Not really interested in the tired "debate" here, but I am legitimately curious why people would ever prefer audiobooks. If you never get a physical copy, you're not able to flip through as you please to revisit a passage you like, if you're having trouble with a sentence you can't see the syntax on the page, and every time you want to experience the book, it's filtered through the voice of someone else. Doesn't it just make more sense to engage in a written medium by reading it, in the same way that it makes more sense to listen to a speech than read it, listen to music than merely read the sheet music? I don't think you can seriously engage with literature if you only listen to it. It's something of an intellectual handicap or guardrail.
>buy physical paper book>download book on audio>download Epub/PDF >that way I can seamlessly switch between reading the book however I want, at home or on the goIf you aren't hybrid reading then you're not litmaxxxing.
>>25243697>Not really interested in the tired "debate">prefaced to that very same tired debateok
>>25243605For non fiction only
>>25243697Listening to Chekhov and Ibsen's plays was a far more rewarding experience than reading them. At least for me. I used to have a long drive between two cities a few states away that I made pretty regularly, and I'd always listen to LibriVox audiobooks. I read the plays in a physical copy later, but liked them less than the audiobooks.
>>25243707Yeah, same goes for Beckett of course too I reckon. The only playwright I prefer on the page is… well there’s no point in me even saying, you already know.
i think you're write because language was originally spoken but i can't follow them, never got anything out of lectures either
>>25243707Plays are written to be voiced by actors.
>>25243730Not always. Look up closet dramas
>>25243738Are those what you listen to?
