Count them or don’t count them for yourself. But telling other folks that they do not count as reading is gatekeepey and toxic for no gain. I don’t care if you are obsessed with semantics. That is not a flex when colloquially words mean things. We are all readers here. Maybe have some flexibility in your definitions. And once again, count them or not personally. But you don’t get to tell someone else they didn’t read something because they consumed it in whatever medium they could.

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I WISH I could enjoy audiobooks but I literally can't focus on them properly. I can hear when the text is so dense it reminds me it was designed to be visually read; I need to be able to reread lines or sections vs the track just going ahead. Shaming others is fucking stupid

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I personally can’t do audio books. My auditory receptors don’t seem to hear every other word BUT in college I helped out with accommodations for students and part of that was reading their syllabuses and assignment sheets if they preferred and recording it so they could use it later. Most of the books had audio recording but sometimes we would have to do short stories and stuff.

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This! I listen to about 4-6 hours of an audiobook at work daily. I listen to it when I shower. When I’m cleaning. Driving. Etc. Literally any time I can’t physically sit down and read a hard copy book I’m going to be listening to one. I love reading and don’t have enough time in the day to consume as many books as I’d like physically so I utilize the resources I’ve been given to enjoy them in another form.

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as a neurodivergent girlie i the only person i don’t count audiobooks as reading for is myself, for literally everyone else i think that audiobooks are reading and are 100% a valid form of doing so!! (that said i was doing audiobooks for anything school related, it’s just in my for fun reading i don’t count it)

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They are great accommodations for others! I can’t count them for myself because I literally can’t pay attention when I’m listening😭 audhd is hard out here lmao. I have to have a physical book so that if my mind wanders, I can reread lol

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I love them both. But, I prefer a physical book. I retain the material better. With an audiobook i tend to miss entire section of the book when i get side tracked

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