What is a REAL book?

@Natasha_Jay I love audiobooks, but I must admit I don't retain half as much from them as I do from the text version.

@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay everything has pros and cons. I love old paperbacks but I cannot read one whilst doing the washing-up

@Natasha_Jay a real book is a book that can't be confiscated from you when your license expires.

@MatthewNewell @Natasha_Jay Yeah, I use audiobooks and podcasts for chores and walks, but anything I want to remember, I will read from a book or my eReader.

@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay

Have you tried both? Either simultaneously or not?

I used to record myself reading study materials and listen back whilst reading. Not sure it was efficient as I have always had pretty good recall anyway - but the process was diverting as it was studying/not studying at one and the same time.

Since dawn of easy availability of commercially available / professionally narrated books I have never really wanted to learn subject deeply enough to try

@Natasha_Jay

In Swedish accessibility circles there is the term "svartskrift" (direct translation "black writing") as opposed to audiobooks and braile.

I think this is a term that should get a wider usage in these times of alternate ways of reading.

@lobingera @Natasha_Jay the real book is a real book.

@MatthewNewell @Natasha_Jay I honestly think it'd confuse me to do at the same time, and repeating it in too short an interval would probably annoy me.

Then again, I tend to read references more so that I know where to look when I need the information, not to fully memorise stuff

@Natasha_Jay All readers start off with 'picture' books. Then, we graduate to 'chapter' books, some with, and some without, illustrations. Onward to text only. It matters not which form it takes. We're reading...learning, or escaping.
Ebooks and Audiobooks are definitely 'real' books.

@Natasha_Jay

Real books are ones with no imaginary component. And who would want to read those?

@david_chisnall @Natasha_Jay as an engineer i prefer complex books with both components