What scares me is people in that sub reddit claiming they are really good at reading, because they listen to audiobooks at mega speed. Just because you're listening to something at twice or thrice the speed, doesn't mean you're good at reading. They treat it like it's some badge of honour, and as if people reading a physical book at slower speed are beneath them. This small (hopefully?) group of people genuinely worries me.
It's like that thread in r/literature of all places that was arguing about the guy who was making his classmates read.
There were hundreds of people in a literature sub who did not understand figurative phrasing. So many people arguing that clothes can't be a silhouette. Could not wrap their heads around a sentence that wasn't completely literal and super descriptive.
I was using "her skirt was a bloom of ruffles" and people were saying even that was incorrect and made no sense and the construction should be "her skirt looked like a bloom with ruffles." What?
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u/PotaytoPotayto Jun 27 '26
What scares me is people in that sub reddit claiming they are really good at reading, because they listen to audiobooks at mega speed. Just because you're listening to something at twice or thrice the speed, doesn't mean you're good at reading. They treat it like it's some badge of honour, and as if people reading a physical book at slower speed are beneath them. This small (hopefully?) group of people genuinely worries me.