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Pick One: Which is your favorite way to read books? (lemmy.zip)

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[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

I will die on this hill: listening is not reading. And I love listening to audio books when I have a long drive or something. ereader is what I use 99% of the time though.

[-] ndondo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Why not out of curiosity?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Reading:

n 1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic
           message; "his main reading was detective stories";
           "suggestions for further reading"

I don't think one is better than the other. Just listening is different than reading. It uses different parts of the brain.

[-] autokludge@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I think there is a similar effect with speed-reading v slow-reading. Slow reading gives me time to mull over and digest what I'm reading, while speed can be good to skim for information.