Thread 24617098

Does audiobooks count?
Can you claim to have read a book if you listen to in on audiobook?

>>24617098 (OP)
You can claim whatever shit you want. The only thing that matters: do you believe it yourself. I personally think it depends on a person, some can digest books like this some can't

>>24617098 (OP)
Does reading posts all day count as reading? Does writing posts all day count as writing?

>>24617106
I have a 10 inch cock

>>24617098 (OP)
No. Nobody gives an audiobook their full attention. They play it in the background while they do something else. Their attention drifts away and back again.
Audiobooks reduce literature to background music.

Can you claim to have watched tons of bands live in concert if you watched them on Youtube?

Don't lie and claim you've seen Enya perform Orinoco Flow live you poseur.

>>24617159
You're harshing my pure moods, bro.

What is the official, The OFFICIAL, /lit/ board opinion on reading a book in one translation and then listening to an audiobook in a second translation?

>>24617159
A book is the equivalent to the album version of music

>>24617159
>Enya perform Orinoco Flow live
Why would anybody claim that?

>>24617173
Listening to someone recite the Iliad is the authentic way to experience it, as long as it's done in a suitably declamatory style.

>>24617241
I don't really have an answer to that
>turns 360 degrees and sails away

>>24617128
You can easily suck it congratulations

I have a 1hr bus commute every day and Audiobooks are great. I've finished maybe 12 so far this year

>>24617780
but you could also just read a book during the 1 hour bus commute.

>>24617788
My bus is crowded and I'd be pressed for space. And (to sound like a bitch) a book would be heavy because I lug a bunch of shit around on my commute every day.

>>24617098 (OP)
It is semantically wrong but whether it "counts" or not depends on your goals and how you listen or read. Most people that "read" audiobooks are doing so while driving or doing some other task that is taking away more attention than they care to admit. Sometimes authors are very intentional with the formatting on the page and audiobooks (and ebooks) fail to capture the feeling of physically reading it. Infinite Jest is a completely different book when you can instantly access the endnotes by tapping on the screen, or just hearing the endnote blasted directly into your ears.

>>24617098 (OP)
She looks like she calls herself a fucktoy and wants you to slap and spit on her face during sex

>>24617098 (OP)
Do you also call listening podcasts and radio dramas reading? What about watching a movie (videobook)?
If you have ever tried to have discussion about a book you read but other person listened? Fucking impossible.

>>24617106
fpbp /thread

>>24617984
that's pretty spot on

>>24617817
some books that a tales would be made to be told though. Like HC Andersen
Some books are written in a conversational style and might actually sound better if it's read to you
I guess it depends on the book

>>24617098 (OP)
Is that Kendra Spade?

>>24618786
no

>>24618812
Very close resemblance : they could be sisters

>>24617098 (OP)
Take for instance a poem. If you hear someone recite a poem have you "read" it? Of course you did.
if you actively listen then yes, but most people dont actively listen, they put them on as background noise. Historically speaking in middle-ages majority of monks and intelligence read books through mass loud reading - one person read out loud and the others listened as books were rare and it was cheaper to travel to the book than have the book delivered to you. People have been loud reading and listening to books far longer than reading in silence.
And don't you dare to claim that you are able to multitask. Stupid women always claim that, but they are able to multitask without decrease in quality becouse whatever they do is shit even if they focus on one thing.

I read audiobooks.

>>24617098 (OP)
Depends on you and depends on the book, I say. Some things aren't worth devoting your full attention to, even if you want to consume the material for whatever reason. If the point is to get a QRD rather than deeply engage with something, I see no problem in listening to audiobook at 1.5 or 2x while I clean the house or whatever. I got what I intended out of the book.

>>24617098 (OP)
Going on a walk and listening to an audiobook is probably my favourite activity.

>>24617135
That's not really universally true, when i walk and listen to audiobooks my primary focus is on the book. Times when my focus slips or the book makes me think about other things it's very easy to relisten to "undigested" sections or simple pause it and listen to something/nothing else.

>>24619289
>Going on a walk and listening to an audiobook
For some reason I imagined a guy blasting audiobook through phone speakers on full volume in public

>>24619331
Me cause I try to avoid Bluetooth rf

>>24619289
>when i walk and listen to audiobooks my primary focus is on the book
And your secondary focus is on crossing the road safely, ogling hot chicks passing by, and avoiding walking into trees.
Like I said, you're not giving the book your full attention. You can never become absorbed in it the way a reader does.

>>24619411
Like i said i'll pause and relisten if something takes my attention away. I also go for walks by the ocean, along trails etc it's very therapeutic. For city walks or commutes etc i prefer podcasts.

> You can never become absorbed in it the way a reader does.
Hard disagree. Certain physical places become connected with passages from different books, it's good for the memory. Sitting overlooking the ocean listening to a great book is very very enjoyable.

That said there are a number of books i have preferred reading physical copies for all sorts of reasons.

>>24619331
I'm not that much of a cool guy.