Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet
by Erlich_Bachman on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:43AM
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I'm pretty sure audiobook counts.
Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet
by randomdata on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:00AM
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If performances of literary works count, then presumably TV, movies, and plays are included as well?
Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet
by Erlich_Bachman on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:56AM
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To perceive and interpret information in form of long text (which can thus have much complex structure due to having less limitations in length) surely requires more brain work than something like TV. Certain formats of narrative simply do not work in a play or a movie. They have to be adapted.
Usually if people read books, they will often be able to listen audiobooks to the same effect - and vice versa, people who can't read 3 pages because "they get bored", often can't listen to long audiobooks either (and focus on them, as opposed to just have them in background).
They've listened to audio books, watched movies and tv, played video games, gone to plays, played board games, read both long and short form articles, flipped through facebook, kept up with the news, listened to music, watched youtube videos and other short films, but reading a book is a really big investment, and there's a good case to be made that it just isn't as important as, for instance, keeping up with culturally relevant tv or movies, if you want to keep up with the best and most widely experienced parts of modern culture.