Stephen Downes

The suggestion here is that "The more audiobooks I’ve read, the more I’ve finally embraced the reality that listening to audiobooks is reading." Sarah Clinton-McCausland adds, "Recent research has started confirming what audiobookworms have known all along: a 2019 study, for instance, found that 'the semantic representations evoked by listening versus reading are almost identical.'" That's my experience as well; I see myself as having 'read' Moby Dick even though I actually listened to it.