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Is using audio book equivalent to actually reading.

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I enjoy reading and acquiring whatever knowledge I can fit in my gigantic head. Despite this I find that having a 14 month old and a 6 year old doesn’t allow me time or ability to just sit down and read as I woul like. So I recently started acquiring audiobooks to listen to at work rather than music. Im currently listening to the godfather, a movie I never bothered to watch, but find the story quite enjoyable.

So what do you guys think about audiobooks vs and actual books.
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fixed your poll

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SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

why thank you.
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All I have to do is sit back and let technology do the work

I love technology

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SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

Could have fixed his title for him as well. I misread it and came in here with great haste expecting to talk about onions. :x

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Hostage wrote:
SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

Could have fixed his title for him as well. I misread it and came in here with great haste expecting to talk about onions. :x

shhh, im tired.
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CeLL wrote:
Hostage wrote:
SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

Could have fixed his title for him as well. I misread it and came in here with great haste expecting to talk about onions. :x

shhh, im tired.

Or those tapes have taken a toll on you already, your grammar is diminishing !
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Nooooooooooo!
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Hostage wrote:
SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

Could have fixed his title for him as well. I misread it and came in here with great haste expecting to talk about onions. :x


rofl, I actually misread the title too, I thought it said onions... :soosad:

OT: I think reading is better but that's just me.

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Hostage wrote:
SM-Count wrote:fixed your poll

Could have fixed his title for him as well. I misread it and came in here with great haste expecting to talk about onions. :x

Same :dope:
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Reading is better IMO. You digest what is being said better.

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Oh and yes I prefer reading and I think it's better.
Let's talk about onions now?
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I hate cutting onions :rant:
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UnbeatableDevil wrote:I hate cutting onions :rant:

I am one of the lucky few that can cut onions without crying. :sohappy:

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I would take regular reading over audio books, the fact that they read fucking slow drives me crazy.

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My reason for not so doesn't really apply to you, but I can't do audio books because most of the people that do them, I can't understand. Plus, I like to read at my own pace and not the glacial pace of audio books.
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I've never tried audiobooks but I like onion :sohappy:
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Well, I Just don't know.. lulz. I haven't listened to any audiobooks

UnbeatableDevil wrote:I hate cutting onions :rant:
Everyone hates cutting the onions.. xD
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You guys ever get that weird urge when you're staring at an onion just to take a bite out of it? It's that same urge I get when I'm staring at raw meat. I just want to plunge in head first.*nom*

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Hostage wrote:OT:(well kind of)
I've been reading this book called "The Deniers" anyone else read it here? Good read regardless of what side you pledge yourself to on the topic of global warming.

Not really on topic sir.

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I prefer to read the book, but if its an author reading it, it sometimes seems better... for me anyways. If I had to choose tho I'd pick my uncle to tape himself reading it first and I listen to it after! He's amazing at telling stories.
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I thought audio books would be a good idea for listening to while I drive. Not so.. I don't retain the information as well as traditional reading and most of the time I zone out. If I'm going to take the time to sit and listen to them, I'd rather just read the book.
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EvGa wrote:I thought audio books would be a good idea for listening to while I drive. Not so.. I don't retain the information as well as traditional reading and most of the time I zone out. If I'm going to take the time to sit and listen to them, I'd rather just read the book.


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Fiction wrote:
EvGa wrote:I thought audio books would be a good idea for listening to while I drive. Not so.. I don't retain the information as well as traditional reading and most of the time I zone out. If I'm going to take the time to sit and listen to them, I'd rather just read the book.


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i prefer reading it myself but if the reader is good the experience can be about the same
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I find reading a book to be more than simply acquiring the information about it. Reading a book is all about the experience; the environment you place yourself in, the escape form reality, the acquiring of information at your own pace, the imagination you put into the book (whenever I read each character speaking, I read them with a tone of voice inside my head that sounds what I think they'd sound like if they existed). Most of all, the sensation of reading feels so nostalgic. The smell of the paper, the fine binding, the ever slight creases in a page: it all adds to it. That feeling can't be supplemented by technology in my eyes.

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Audio books are never as good as reading a book.

When you read a book you can imagen what inflection the character is using
or how they say a word a certain way. By doing this you relate more to the
character as you are using your own perspective to build up theirs, and
how they are.
Where as for an audio book, this is done for you and as such loses the
personal and intimate feeling one can obtain from reading a book and
making a character ones own.
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omg if I wanted to do something educational and also LISTEN to it, I should actually be lying on the bottom of a river.

+ I'll miss half when listening because I zone out most of the time while listening to something. especially something as monotonous as someone reading a book to me.

Unless they do the voices. I like it when they have the voices.

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[quote="Doron"][/quote]
Rhymes with moron.

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