Do you consider an audiobook "reading"?
#books #reading #poll

Please boost for a wider demographic and feel free to comment with opinions below 🙏

Yes
59.4%
No
40.6%
Poll ended at .
@dancinyogi @gavi It depends. If we are talking about a skill like “can you read?” as in perceive letters then I do not think it is the same. If it is “I am reading x books this year” as in transferring information from those books into my head, then I do count it as equivalent.
@dancinyogi @gavi Btw I specifically am talking about people who could physically be able to read. I think it’s important to make a distinction between listening and physically reading because literacy and the ability to actually read (if one can see) is an important skill that a number Americans have not learned well. All of us on Mastodon obviously do read but we need to remember we are part of a privileged group (in tech ways) and there are many who cannot or do not ever read