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What is real reading?

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Naomi Kanakia
Feb 15, 2025
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I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I do keep some records about which books I listened to in audio vs. which books I read as text, but I don’t find that distinction to be particularly meaningful. When I think back to the books I’ve read, I don’t put The Decameron (audio) into a different bucket from The Canterbury Tales (text). Audio usually works best fo…

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