Do you count audio books?

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I used to read constantly. Then my MH nosedived and I struggled to concentrate on a book. The last couple of years I've fallen in love with reading again. I track my books on Goodreads.

But do audio books count? I've got a target of 50 books this year, I've read 49. I've listened to a few books at bedtime and fall asleep with them on so don't count them as I didn't hear the majority of the book. But then there's a couple that I've purposely listened to when I'm not going to sleep and have heard the whole thing.

I want to log them on Goodreads, but I feel like they don't count towards my target because I didn't technically read them. What would you do?

Or can I log them and GR not include them in my total? Maybe if I don't put the dates on them?

Same here.

OP, do you think then that blind people never can be said to have read a book??

I think they can say they've read a book if that's how they feel. I'm hardly going to tell them they haven't.

I used to care for an elderly lady who had lost her eye sight. She listened to audio books and often said she missed reading as it wasn't quite the same. So for her it was a different thing.

Having listened to a few more audio books recently I'm finding it a different experience to reading as well. So I've decided to log them on a separate shelf on goodreads and not count them towards my reading goal. Which doesn't mean I don't think anyone should count them if they want to.

No, entirely different thing.

In my eyes, they don't count. It doesn't mean that should stop you from listening to them though!

In my eyes they do count. I am reading a "difficult" book for my book group. It is the exact opposite of "I can't put it down". I managed to get through a significant chunk of it on a 4 hour motorway drive but I have read the bits in between.

My personal heavy reads would be someone like James Joyce or some genres of non-fiction writing.

Not the point of this thread but I wanted to say that Joyce is absolutely brilliant to hear read aloud, especially Jim Norton's (Bishop Brennan) great recordings. If you're not Irish you can lose some of the cadences of the language reading in your head. I found that hearing it read properly added a new dimension and elucidated passages that had previously defeated me. Definitely worth doing, if not instead of reading the text then in addition to.