freyjaprompts24:

Noticed the irony of this not having a text ID, so:

[ID: a screenshot from twitter. User @/kestert is replying to @/neilhimself and @/tomgauld and says: I agree that they’re books, but how do you feel about when people say they are “reading” an audiobook rather than listening to it?

Neil Gaiman has quote-tweeted this to reply, saying: Absolutely fine. How do you feel when blind people say they’re reading a Braille book rather than touching it?

Dr Emily Friedman @/friede has replied to this tweet on 17th July 2022, saying: Book historian who tells students constantly that if they listen to the audiobook, they are literally reading 18th century novels the way the large chunk of the original audience experienced the book. Silent, solitary reading by eye alone is so, so recent!

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