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nameisntfranco t1_j0v2d25 wrote

Reply to comment by shnibbershnab in Challenge completed 3rd time in a row!! by Aparnabalajee

I second this. Why do you not consider it the same thing? What do you get from reading a book that I don’t get from listening to it?

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Zikoris t1_j0v4mmx wrote

I mean, listening and reading are just objectively two different things. If you decide they're the same, you immediately run into all sort of logistical impossibilities. If listening is reading, a two year old who has not learned to read yet can now somehow read. So can an illiterate person, and heck, maybe even a dog if you made a simple enough audiobook that consisted of mainly words dogs commonly know.

If your definition of reading means 1. an illiterate person can read, 2. a two year old who has not started school yet can read, and 3. a dog can read, your definition is just obviously wrong.

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