"audiobooks aren't reading, only reading is reading" Ok, turns out I don't write books—I type them. Also guess I'm gonna have to mount brackets to every wall in my house so I can actually hang up the phone, since pushing the lil red button on my screen definitely doesn't count. - ThreadSky

ceemtaylor.com • 28 days ago

"audiobooks aren't reading, only reading is reading"

Ok, turns out I don't write books—I type them.

Also guess I'm gonna have to mount brackets to every wall in my house so I can actually hang up the phone, since pushing the lil red button on my screen definitely doesn't count.

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kaurifish.bsky.social•28 days ago

Reading purity is just eyeball bigotry. 🤣

choosingfiction.bsky.social•27 days ago

I wonder how these people feel about visually impaired people using audiobooks

ceemtaylor.com•28 days ago

If writing = the act of creating a book, then reading = the act of consuming a book.

The edgelords who land on my feed every few days need to be more consistent with their application of "what words really mean" if they want to be taken seriously.

luminanza.bsky.social•28 days ago

I never know it those people are willfully nitpicky about the term “reading” or just elitist. I guess the latter, because otherwise why would they care?

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•28 days ago

Willfully nitpicky here, with a plethora of reasons.

I don't want struggling new readers to give up growing an important skill because "it's the same thing" becomes popular.

We have a beautiful, vibrant language and we shouldn't sell it short by consolidating words to mean the same.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•28 days ago

Politicians will jump at opportunity to defund reading in schools if it is widely accepted "audiobooks are the same as physical media."

I am not devaluing how you get your information. The compromise is to reframe the conversation with what you did with the info, for example ...

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•28 days ago

"I finished the book,I hated it, I did not finish, I am in the middle of...." and so on.

This phrasing does not need to center on the vehicle of ascertaining information. It highlights impressions, goals, if others can discuss end spoilers.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•28 days ago

As for the write vs type strawman:

I don't want kids to stop penmanship exercises because the grown ups say the two are the same thing.

You authored a book. You are an author of.. Is much more marketable than boring ol' "wrote."

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•28 days ago

"I wrote" is less impressive anyway. I write shopping lists. But "I authored two books" is confident, expressive, an easier segue to a sales pitch.

Yes, I am a "said is dead" ride or die poet.

No, I am not trying to make dyslexic people feel bad for a flicker of superiority.

luminanza.bsky.social•27 days ago

See, writing me five-six replies using sophisticated language, does come across as elitist. In case you wondered, I know why it can be problematic to change the meaning of words - I detest the use of the word “literally” online, as an example. That was not the point.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•27 days ago

Using less casual words is a defense mechanism of the misunderstood.

I have alot to say about a complex topic. Reductionary takes don't cover all.

The word "read" in particular is used specifically in research, grants, and...

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•27 days ago

....the socially accepted change will trickle into political defunding proposals that we are seeing in real time.

amp-h.bsky.social•27 days ago

It is acceptable to tell a small child that audiobooks don't count for silent reading practice time. It is meaningless to tell an adult that audiobooks don't "count" because that implies somebody somewhere is "counting". In fact most adults care surprisingly little about how much other adults read.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•27 days ago

But children are listening. Children pick up on these things but are less likely to understand the complexity that "listening is no different than reading" is to soothe adults with insecurities.

Who thinks most like a reductionary child? Politicians who will use argument to defund education.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•27 days ago

The ripple effects are clear.

I want everyone to consume and think past the information in books. Why can't people see further, the ramifications that will happen, by making reading and listening interchangeable and equivalent?

luminanza.bsky.social•27 days ago

I’m not willing to entertain this conversation much longer, but I will say that the way you approach this is more likely to push people away from your line of thinking. There are such huge issues going on in the world, obsessing over the way people use words that hold little consequence is not it.

luminanza.bsky.social•27 days ago

Exactly. While I do understand the points that person is making, I don’t think they’re worth fighting for or correcting anyone for. It’s more likely to deter people from books than encourage than them to read.

jamesthomasla.bsky.social•28 days ago

I can’t stand that argument. I have ≈ 2.5-3 hours in the car everyday and audiobooks are one way to stay sane.

renwritesraze.bsky.social•26 days ago

I don't even get why anyone is mad about audiobooks (a tool for accessibility, but fine as just preference). Does it cause you actual harm? No? Cool, mind your own business, let people enjoy things in the way that works for them, and stfu. Go be passionate about shit that actually matters.

heatherg95.bsky.social•28 days ago

So, no one's ever written a book except pre-type writer writers? 🤪

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