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Do audiobooks count as reading?

The answer gets more interesting once we stop arguing about the word “reading” and start asking what audiobooks actually preserve, change, and add to the experience of a story.

Let's start asking the right questions about audiobooks and print books and learn how the answers impact our craft as writers.

⏱️ TIME STAMPS
00:00 - The audiobook debate
01:18 - What do we mean by reading?
02:37 - The wrong metric
03:58 - The real differences in audiobooks
07:35 - Why stories matter
11:05 - How audio changes interpretation
14:38 - The audiobook narrator
16:58 - What audiobooks mean for writers
19:30 - Do audiobooks count as reading?

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📖 RESOURCES

fMRI Investigation of Sentence Comprehension by Eye and by Ear: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.1036
The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.5.701
The Role of Emotional Transportation: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055341
Cognitive Effects and Correlates of Reading Fiction: https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001583
A Meta-Analysis of Reading and Listening Comprehension: https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543211060871
The Representation of Semantic Information Across Human Cerebral Cortex During Listening Versus Reading Is Invariant to Stimulus Modality: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6764208/
How does fiction reading influence empathy? An experimental investigation on the role of emotional transportation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23383160/

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