• Duranie@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    I see someone down voted you for some reason. In case it’s because of the misconception that audiobooks aren’t as good as reading, several years back there was some research which showed that as far as the brain is concerned, there’s essentially no difference.

    “Looking at the brain scans and data analysis, the researchers saw that the stories stimulated the same cognitive and emotional areas, regardless of their medium. It’s adding to our understanding of how our brains give semantic meaning to the squiggly letters and bursts of sound that make up our communication.”

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/audiobooks-or-reading-to-our-brains-it-doesnt-matter

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      11 months ago

      It’s just the same attitude as people who claim it’s not really reading if you’re using an eReader. Some people get weirdly elitist about books and reading

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        11 months ago

        Wow who would even say that? That would be pretty much as illogical as it can get

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          11 months ago

          As always, people who just hate change in any form - combined with the depressingly common outlook that if you don’t personally like something, it must be objectively bad

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          11 months ago

          Facebook groups that post old Pickles cartoons and motivational joker quotes, and it doesn’t matter how many of them I block theres always an endless amount of clones doing the same thing.

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      11 months ago

      I can attest to this. I never actually read the A Song of Ice and Fire books but I know that world like it’s my own.