Do audio books count as reading? | Topic Thunder

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Is listening to a book on audio the same thing as reading the words with your eyes? Is there a downside to only listening? There’s more disagreement on this than you might think.

Joe Stanek (@joe_gameday) sat in as guest host on this one, along with Mike, Nico (@nicoflores83kg), and Elexa (@nanoo31).

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0:14.4	Can feel it ladies gentlemen welcome to topics then you
0:20.0	That was pretty good
0:22.8	You're like start a host that hasn't been started for a year. That's what you sounded like I think my time to better to do
0:28.6	It's a weighted you just got to get the the sound by from AC DC just I'm here with the
0:34.7	Mercy nano and the game day boys and
0:38.5	I will say we'll say good companies very own nano that sounds good. Yeah, I'm all right
0:43.9	It's gonna get weird here. I don't know because Niko's dumb like me. No, you're just stupid like me listening to an audio book
0:51.2	Does not count for reading a book
0:53.2	Oh
0:55.2	That's the case. I'm not sure I've ever read a book in my life. Yeah, I have I have it read a book in a while then shit
1:01.2	I've actually never listened to an audio book for yes, you read casually. Yeah. Oh, okay, so you're smart
1:06.1	I mean I used to lie in it is as Nana
1:12.1	And like articles or books articles. Yeah, I read fucking Instagram captions fuck me. What are we talking about?
1:18.6	Okay, but I never listen to an audio book. Why don't you just read?
1:22.3	Because I really see that's what no
1:27.3	It's really hard to write a bicycle going 20 miles per hour with a book in my hand
1:33.2	Maybe that's fucking what the other thing you fucking dick the other thing is a lot of people
1:38.9	Learned through different passageways and some people read greatly and can absorb all that information and some people do it better visually
1:45.8	And some people do it more auditorily. How about you smart one of the group?
1:49.6	Well, I have to read textbooks. Yeah, yeah, but what about for fun?
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