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[benji]

Audio books are real books, chuds. Stop being ableist.

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no seriously, there's very little difference and it's a distinction that only annoys the most pedantic among us

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How is it reading you dumb fuck? They are AUDIO books.

It's different in the sense that you're not literally using your eyes to read yes, but in effect audiobooks and proper books are the same thing once you've acclimated to hearing it instead of seeing. When you're reading you're just doing the audiobook voice in your head, audible cuts out the middle man. I get through dozens of audiobooks a year. Horror novels at the gym is my happy time. Love it.

Would be a bit like saying James Joyce never wrote a novel because he dictated them.

yeah it seems like a weird distinction, having strict definitions force you to say shit like "I experienced three books this year" 

All of y'all making excuses for alt-right dogwhistles now. And trying to appropriate the Black oral tradition.