The summer reading program! ❤️📚

Books: - How to Invest by David Rubenstein - The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill - A Power Unbound by Freya Marske - Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne Thank you!

@@AnaheimLibrary Thank you for your reply :)

Unless your reading level is below grade 5, your brain is processing just as much information if you listen to the words being spoken. In studies about reading comprehension over different forms of text, audiobooks scored just a tad higher than reading print on paper. Those reading on e-readers or tablets scored the lowest, so if you want to tell someone they aren't "really" reading, you would need to put kindle readers at the top... But no one wants to do that, because they know those kindle readers are "real" readers.

And studies show that your brain basically does the same amount of work to listen to a text as reading it with your eyes, unless your reading level is below grade 5. It is important for children to read text with their eyes, but once you have a basic understanding of reading, your brain doesn't really distinguish whether the words are spoken or written. In fact, in reading comprehension studies comparing different forms of the text, audiobook "readers" consistently scored higher in cognitive awareness of details of the text and comprehension of the story plot points than those who read on a phone or tablet, and just a tad higher than those reading text on paper. I think it's funny, all these non-readers popping up in the comments like "no that's not reading," when people who actually do read consider it "common knowledge," that it is, in fact, reading.

@@SavageMinnow What "non-readers"? I read 50-100 books a year. I maintain there's a big difference in reading vs listening. I read Latin much better than I speak/hear it. I understand spoken Spanish much better than I read it. It's been a long time since I read any Classical Greek, but I used to be able to do so. But I've never heard it spoken and expect I wouldn't understand it at all if someone spouted a bunch of the Iliad at me verbally. The studies you mentioned were on the subject of cognitive and emotive processing, not the different sensory channels and how those feed into it. Do I pedantically Karen someone who tells me they've read one of my books, when they mean they listened to it? Of course not. But it is important to understand that these are different words with different meanings.

Um, you're wrong. If you can read at grade 5 or higher, your brain doesn't distinguish whether the words it's comprehending are spoken or written. In "reading comprehension" studies, audiobook readers score higher than readers of plain written text, particularly written text on a screen.

The comments on this video are hilarious. You aren't a reader, are you??

@SavageMinnow I read quite a bit and also listen to audiobooks. I thin they are both awesome and valuable. But they are also different. Making the language less precise does nothing to combat the actual issue, which is people viewing audiobook listening as inferior to reading.

That's definitely common knowledge about a marathon, and this shit is common knowledge for the book community, that's why it's funny when someone who isn't a reader tells an audiobook reader that they aren't "really reading." I think you missed the point lol

Disagree. Yes, someone else is reading, which takes the tone, but audiobooks are just as much an active process, "processing the words and meanings and adding your own interpretation." I agree with others that by definition, they are not identical, but whether they should "count" as reading depends on who's counting. In order to one-up your friend that you read more books? Guess not. Literally any other way of counting? Sure. Btw, this is the Internet. I know we won't agree. Just sharing my opinion.

@@stephenj9470 Sure, I'm not here to argue either. Just sharing opinions as well :) I'm not the type of person to flex how many books I read (I don't even keep a count to begin with), so I don't have a need to inflate my numbers by including audiobooks into the mix, so that's not the reason behind my opinion. I just think that there is a fundamental conceptual difference between reading a book/ebook yourself and listening to someone else doing it. Every time I go for an audiobook I always fall into a much more passive listening state, and I can feel my brain not being involved as much. Or maybe I've just been listening to audiobooks wrong my whole life lol That said, this does not mean that audiobooks are in any way inferior or useless. It's a completely different way of experiencing a book, much more similar to attending an artistic performance than to actually being involved in the active process of reading (which also includes using Braille for blind people, as it's still an active process as reading printed text with your eyes). In my experience, audiobooks are especially great for non fiction, because your goal is usually to simply take the main information out and apply it in real life. But for a novel I usually go with traditional reading, because I like a more interactive experience.

@@Merione I can agree with a good portion of that.

​@@Merioneyou can't "feel" your brain doing anything. That's not how the brain works, and as long as you can read at a 5th grade level or higher, your brain doesn't distinguish whether the information is in written or spoken format. It processes them the same way. Go read a study before you start telling people they aren't really reading.