Speaker 1: If somebody who has a debate going on at work,
Speaker 1: they work at a police department and their name is Kelly. Hi, Kelly,
Speaker 1: what is your debate going on at work? And we
Speaker 1: will settle this.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the debate since twenty twenty six has started
Speaker 2: is people keep book counts, right, like of books they
Speaker 2: read throughout the year?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they go, wow, I read one hundred books
Speaker 2: or whatever. So our debate has been does it count
Speaker 2: if you listen to the book and don't physically read it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or does it only count if you physically read it?
Speaker 3: Okay? What do you think?
Speaker 2: I think that it can count that you read the book,
Speaker 2: But I don't think it counts as that you look
Speaker 2: like you actually read read the book. If that make sense? Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it does, because I think you do a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I would agree with you. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with listening to an audiobook is not a disgrace or shameful.
Speaker 1: But you didn't read the book. You listened it to
Speaker 1: the book. What do you think daily?
Speaker 4: I think it counts only because I I think of
Speaker 4: it in a way that what if you're blind and
Speaker 4: you want to read a book, that's how you're going
Speaker 4: to read a book. So would you say that a
Speaker 4: blind person has never read a book or does it happen?
Speaker 1: I say they've driven, okay, I mean there's certain things
Speaker 1: that blind people can't do. They just prohibitively cannot drive,
Speaker 1: and they can't read. They can read brail. I would say,
Speaker 1: if a blind person read with brail, then they read
Speaker 1: the book.
Speaker 4: I still think it counts as reading because I'm digesting
Speaker 4: the information that was in the book. I'm just digesting
Speaker 4: it with my ears, and no, I am multitask.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be real honest with you. There was
Speaker 1: somebody who used to say I read a book. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't. You listen to the audiobook. But I respect you, Bailey,
Speaker 1: more than I respected that person. So when you say
Speaker 1: you read a book, I will say, yes, I agree
Speaker 1: you read a book because I respect you more than
Speaker 1: that person.
Speaker 5: And I can read.
Speaker 4: I know how to read, and I have read a
Speaker 4: physical book. But if the only books I ever read
Speaker 4: were physical books, I would never read books because I'm
Speaker 4: pretty busy.
Speaker 3: What do they say down at work?
Speaker 2: Fifty fifty?
Speaker 3: Is it fifty to fifty? Okay?
Speaker 2: But you're but you're right, oh, I'm always right.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, okay, okay, it is going to say, in
Speaker 1: your opinion, you're absolutely right. Okay, what do you think
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask people who listen to the show
Speaker 1: text in and let us note, is listening to the
Speaker 1: audio book count as reading?
Speaker 3: I think it absolutely counts. There's no question it counts.
Speaker 3: But you can't say you.
Speaker 2: Read it, not your physical count because you didn't read
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 5: So you're supposed to take two counts.
Speaker 4: You're supposed to take a physical book count and an
Speaker 4: audiobook count.
Speaker 5: That's two different counts. I'd rather just keep one.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't sound as cool if you say I
Speaker 2: read one hundred and fifty books. It's like, well, actually
Speaker 2: I listened to ninety of them.
Speaker 4: You're still there's a lot of books expending.
Speaker 3: Energy that are there that many books? That reading?
Speaker 5: So many books? I read like sixty.
Speaker 1: Name five books. Charlotte's Web, Harry Potter.
Speaker 4: Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, besides Harry Potter, Girl, I can't gone girl.
Speaker 3: And that's it. There are no more books.
Speaker 5: That's it, that's all.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all you need to read. You just read
Speaker 1: the five books and you're done. But is reading a
Speaker 1: book listening? Is listening to an audiobook? Reading a book bought?
Speaker 6: Say, I'd never thought about it, but there is like
Speaker 6: two different counts. You didn't physically read it, but you
Speaker 6: did digest the info.
Speaker 1: So would you say I digested the book. Nobody's going
Speaker 1: to say that. I don't care if you do, say
Speaker 1: I read a book read an audio book.
Speaker 6: Would you look at me crazy if I said, Dave,
Speaker 6: guess what, I digested this book like.
Speaker 3: You ate the book.
Speaker 1: Text messages listening counts as reading? What if you're blind? Well,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that when you're braille.
Speaker 5: Like, you don't come out the womb knowing how to
Speaker 5: read braill.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to say.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say, no, it doesn't count because let's
Speaker 6: just say you don't know how to read, you know
Speaker 6: how to listen. You know what I'm saying. So you
Speaker 6: didn't read anything, So you don't even know how to read,
Speaker 6: but you listened to a book.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is the This text says it counts as
Speaker 4: reading because I've read multiple studies about how an audiobook
Speaker 4: activates the same parts in your brain as it would
Speaker 4: if you were reading it.
Speaker 1: It's not true though, not only does it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whether it activates. We're not talking about whether it activates
Speaker 1: the same parts of your brain. We're talking about whether
Speaker 1: you can use the verb read or listened if you wrong.
Speaker 1: But one is different than the other.
Speaker 6: If you don't know how to read, period, like if
Speaker 6: you don't know that C. A T spells cat, that
Speaker 6: you don't have to know how to read. So but
Speaker 6: I could listen to something and still say I've heard
Speaker 6: the book but you didn't read it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Say I heard the book. You wouldn't say I digested,
Speaker 4: should say I read.
Speaker 3: It either, because you digested it.
Speaker 5: You did read it.
Speaker 4: You were you you heard everything that's in that book.
Speaker 4: It's like if somebody was reading to you out loud,
Speaker 4: Like if you're reading you know, Go dog Go to
Speaker 4: someone else, would you then say, like, I've never read
Speaker 4: Go dog Go.
Speaker 5: No, you know exactly what happened in Go dog Go
Speaker 5: because someone read it to you.
Speaker 6: If you took your car to the car wash, are
Speaker 6: you gonna say I washed my car? No, because you
Speaker 6: didn't wash your car somebody else did. You'd say I
Speaker 6: washed my car.
Speaker 1: I did wash my car. Yeah, I did my laundry.
Speaker 1: But did the machine do it or did I do
Speaker 1: the Here's the final answer. The doctor nights and says
Speaker 1: I have a PhD and language acquisition. Listening and reading
Speaker 1: are two different modalities. Don't use big words on me, doctor,
Speaker 1: They have distinct processing mechanisms and we assess them separately
Speaker 1: in language learning. They also have their own proficiency levels.
Speaker 1: That said, listening and reading are separate inputs.
Speaker 6: So it says you don't read a podcast exactly because a.
Speaker 4: Podcast isn't a book, Like I wouldn't read a podcast
Speaker 4: because a podcast not a book. But if I'm reading
Speaker 4: Gone Girl the audiobook, I'm reading that book because it's
Speaker 4: a book.
Speaker 5: It's meant to be a book. And I don't.
Speaker 1: Know what this is what really is irking me. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can argue about something so small
Speaker 1: and trivial when there's something else to argue about, whether
Speaker 1: a hot dog is a sandwich or not. Now you
Speaker 1: guys will just stop ignoring that giant issue in the.
Speaker 5: Room is a sereal of soup.
Speaker 3: No, why not.
Speaker 1: Let us know, let me hear there's a couple of
Speaker 1: other text messages. I'm an avid audio booker. It absolutely counts. Also,
Speaker 1: who cares.
Speaker 3: No, you're absolutely right. I don't care.
Speaker 1: If you are a child at school and all you
Speaker 1: did was listen to books, you would never learn to read.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: They don't physically know how to read. Another text says
Speaker 6: I had the book read to me. Maybe that's what
Speaker 6: we should be saying. That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: This is a text that says whenever I say my
Speaker 1: friend built their house, my husband says, they didn't build it.
Speaker 1: The construction workers build it. So people go, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: building the house out in maple plane. No you're not.
Speaker 6: Oh, I love all these different layers of this onion.
Speaker 6: Somebody else said, if I watch so, if I watch
Speaker 6: a show based on the book, is that the same
Speaker 6: as reading the book? The ballad question, it is movies. Well,
Speaker 6: by Bailey's definition, it.
Speaker 4: Is no, because it's not the book itself. I'm making sense. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm making sense.
Speaker 3: What you think?
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: I read fifty five books last year, and yes they
Speaker 4: were all audiobooks. But I was digesting the book itself,
Speaker 4: and someone was, yeah, reading it to me, but I
Speaker 4: still read the book.
Speaker 5: You think you're making sense, but are you make it?
Speaker 6: Change?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this one. So here's a teacher.
Speaker 1: So a teacher that says a student would not be
Speaker 1: able to count listening to a story being read to
Speaker 1: them as a book they read. If you are a
Speaker 1: teacher and you assigned that they got to read To
Speaker 1: Kill a Mockingbird and they listened to the audio book,
Speaker 1: does that count? Let me know, teacher, We're curious. This
Speaker 1: is one of those dumb, harmless debates where it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter whether you're right or wrong.