Do audiobooks count as reading?

What began as an innocent debate soon devolved into accusations of deception and trickery. Is it misleading to say you read a book if, in actuality, you listened to it as an audiobook? And do you absorb information the same way when listening compared to reading? With some help from Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Associate Professor at University of North Dakota, we get an answer. Here’s a link to Dr. Clinton-Lisell’s meta-analysis of reading and listening comprehension comparisons. She’s on TikTok, YouTube, Threads, and Bluesky. For more information, please subscribe to our newsletter at www.nosuchthing.show And if you have any questions you’d like us to get to the bottom of, email us at [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.