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Maximise your reading potential = work yourself back towards illiteracy.
I honestly don't hate that. Whether by audiobook or easy book, I guess I just call reading axiomatically good.
Putting aside the fact that this is AI slop, there's something to be said for the value of good prose. Reading fiction shouldn't strictly be about conveying the bare facts of a story, but about drawing in the reader. And sometimes a really good sentence is just a work of art, all on its own.
*AI slop is bad; good prose has value. Fiction should do more than tell you the story, it should immerse the reader. A good sentence is art.
Ah fuck, I've been slopped!!
It's not just prose, it's art.
Audiobooks are great but not reading, and regardless a) people should improve their receptive language skills, b) this is AI horseshit, c) in a literary work there is no equivalence between the actual work and a plot summary. It's like having a summary of the stuff you see going on in a painted scene with only minimal discussion of composition, gesture, and so on. It's literally anti-art.
Just look at this example, you can see an overt loss of information even with zero other context to tell us further about any significance in its phrasing, and even this is a more optimistic case. Just imagine how it must fail to relay something more complex.
Do you mean in the literal sense?
Yeah, I like audiobooks but I think we should distinguish between people leaning on listening because they're more comfortable with that than reading vs trying to "compensate" for weaker reading skills by mutilating the text.