Anyone who passes judgment on print vs. ebook vs. audiobook is a lazy critic. It does not matter how you consume books as long as you read them.
@svershbow I'd even take it a step further and claim: those who make such judgments are not readers, but pretenders.
@svershbow I love audiobooks. Not only do you “read” them, but you “experience” them when you have a great narrator. The only negative is it takes longer to listen to than to read a book, but that is balanced against the fact that you can listen to books while driving or walking the dog.
@svershbow 1. Your eyes don’t read. Your ears don’t read. They are both tools that work together to decode. It matters not which tool you use to decode. Reading is decoding combined with comprehension. Cont
@svershbow Personal preferences are exactly that, personal. If somebody doesn't want to read anything other than print books, there's nothing at all wrong with that. But when they tell people who read eBooks or listen to audiobooks that they aren't true readers, that's not cool.
@svershbow Thank you. Audiobooks are especially meaningful for those of us who are visually impaired.
@svershbow As a librarian, I can tell you this standoff is ALWAYS driven by the publishing industry. They’re always looking for new variety of DRM to make sure they get their cut- and by their cut I mean much more than the writer makes no matter what platform the book originated in.
@svershbow *”as long as you read them”?