I love audiobooks and consume them frequently but I personally don’t call it reading. It doesn’t feel like the same activity to me. What do you think?

  • emb@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think one could read it passively. I’d imagine some students getting it assigned and just going through it as fast as possible to get the gist. I also don’t think always there’s a very clear difference between literature and casual reads.

    But overall I agree, print encourages a more active approach by making self-paced the default. Leaves plenty of opportunities for meta-cognition. Audio can too tho, just depends how people engage.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      yeah i had those students. I’d ask them why they were taking my class, and they’d look at me very confused. then they’d get a C and get really angry about it, then they’d write another paper telling me how stupid the book was and how only stupid people would like reading it, and get a D and finish the class with a C-.

      they were usually engineering or science students… the same ones who probably think anyone who gets an English degree is a lazy dumbass while they are the smartest most hardworking students who ever existed because they had to spend hours doing problem sets per week, but didn’t put that same effort into the lit class they took… hmmm