adam_y @ adam_y @lemmy.world

Synth noodling conceptual artist

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Yeah, you miaunderstand me.

You can still enjoy the content, but the process isn't reading that's all.

I enjoy them too. Audio books are great. Several members of my family are blind and it is a form we can enjoy.

Interestingly the fact that several people can enjoy an audiobook at once supports my argument that it is not reading... A somewhat solo pursuit unless someone reads aloud.

So, respectfully, I think you've got the wrong end of this stick.

But I do want to say that it gives me genuine pleasure that you've found a way to enjoy those stories.

I adore real life books, but I read at night whilst my partner sleeps. The backlit ereader is an absolute delight.

I also disagree with calling audio books "reading".

I'm not saying is is a worse way to experience the content of the book, and I enjoy it myself, but it is a fundamentally different experience based on different senses and different mechanisms.

And the community responds:

guardian article, Banksy defaced

His work almost never benefits the community though. Councils will actively remove it or individuals will tear down walls just to sell it for private gain.

If the artist genuinely cared about the community they wouldn't bestow work upon it but work with them instead.

By that logic the queen has gut shame.

My eyes! The detail! It hurts!

It's a bit meh, isn't it?

That's a fair point, it is a game as much as it is a racket.

Ah. Let's celebrate Irish nationality with crude tropes!

Sounds to me like they don't want to ban it, they want it sold to American business at a massively discounted rate. Standard mafia shit.

The only thing I've found that makes much difference is pre-wetting filters. The rest feels awfully like tarot and crystals for people that like caffeine.

Not just sea salt. Signs down across Glasgow and I think that's chip salt and neglect.

I feel like that is neither universal or basic.

Season 4 of Fringe.

There's a certain sort of grief in finishing a book you enjoy, isn't there?

It's harder with physical copies because you can feel the pages slipping away. Not so much on an ereader.

Oh yeah, I'm not shaming anyone who skims, read however you enjoy.

I just know that there's more of a weird stigma for slower readers.

Same goes for finishing books. I know some folk will stick with a book even if they aren't enjoying it, mostly because they've learnt that as part of their education.

I abandon books all the time. Life's a little too short, so I treat reading like the radio... A song comes on that I'm not into, just flip over and see what else is put there.

That said, I've returned to books that I bailed on and in some cases I really enjoyed them at the second attempt. Which makes me think that you have to be in the right place sometimes. Still, it's no reflection on intelligence.

People lie about how much they read and how quickly they read. I saw one guy online list his yearly reading and if you totalled up the words in those books he'd be breaking records.

People lie because they want people to think they are smart. But reading quickly isn't an indicator of intelligence any more so than people that watch videos at four times the speed.

Retention and comprehension are far more important, but still secondary to enjoyment.

If you enjoy how you read and what you read, don't let anyone tell you that you are doing it wrong.

Slow readers are my favourite humans.

They don't race through a book, but instead the stroll, taking time to look around, think things through, ponder the future and reason the implications. Sometimes they just rest for a while, letting the story mull in their mind, before returning later.

Genuinely have so much time for people that take it slow with books.

I feef you.

6 feef.