📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
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Thank you for commenting and giving me an incentive to get off a hobbyhorse.
@bibliolater @bookstodon Though, to be fair, any form of riding can be good exercise....
@bibliolater @bookstodon No - it's called *listening*. 👂 It uses a different sense. 👁️ You don't go "read a movie" either.
It's perfectly fine that people enjoy listening to audiobooks, so I'm not judging the activity—just the use of language.
Thank you for commenting and sharing your thoughts.
@bibliolater When I actually physically read a great story, I often can't remember later whether I read it or watched it as a movie. So, yes, audiobooks count as "reading" for me.
@GinevraCat I did not realise this was such a divisive issue. I prefer reading as opposed to listening to a book as it helps me in retention; however, I do not begrudge those who prefer listening to audiobooks.
@bibliolater @bookstodon So sick of this stupid question. I deliver library materials to people who cannot get to the library. A large number of them have visual difficulties. We provide audio materials for these people and they thank me FOR GIVING THEM THE CHANCE TO CONTINUE READING.
Get off this stupid hobby horse and tackle the idiots claiming that "AI" summaries as as good as reading the whole book.