I enjoy audio books way more than reading myself because it doesn't pull as much of my focus.

When I read, I have to read, understand, process.

When I hear it, it's just understand and process.

It would be the equivalent of having to read subtitles for an in person conversation rather than hearing their voice.

I can listen and process. I cannot process as well while reading because I'm focused on processing words

I cannot read without subvocalizing. Like I can skim and read only words that stand out to me and I'd get the gist of it. But to full comprehend everything I'd basically have to subvocalize every word.

To me there's no difference between reading a chemistry text book or a romance novel. Just words I have to read to comprehend.

I'm sure I'd enjoy reading some things more than others. Like a story with a compelling plot and not a lot of visual word fluff.

But reading pages and pages of words just so I can know what happens next in the story when a simple sentence would suffice doesn't sound enjoyable to me.

Kind of like how instead of reading the book you could read the cliff notes. At best I'm only going to remember the cliff note facts after reading the book. "How the author tells the story" is lost on me because I'd rather them just get to the point. All the word fluff of setting up a scene are just facts that I'm not going to commit to memory.

Calling Star Trek a sitcom just demonstrates a lack of media literacy that makes this conversation pointless.

Lol you're welcome.

How do I even find this video anymore? Do the kids today even use limewire? It occurs to me, I've seen worse now.

Using the expanse as an example, the spacers were supposed to be deformed by our standards. They eliminated all the hard sci-fi elements of their appearance. If a book involves a realistic alien civilization, an adaptation is rarely made

Good thing it effectively died soon after