Is listening to a book ‘cheating?’

[Warpy]

5. Using Cliff's Notes is cheating, mostly yourself. Using someone else's report is cheating

Listening to an audio book instead of reading is not cheating. I tutored dyslexic students who had to "read" all their books that way. Blind students also "read" most of their books that way.

The problem is that kids are always doing something else, like playing video games, and miss a good 75% of the book.

Back in the bad old days before radio and TV, families used to sit together in the evening with one member reading aloud to the rest. It was a great way to get through great literature (War and Peace, I'm looking at you) without being put to sleep.

I've done both and I find reading to be much quicker. Listening is more satisfactory when I'm spinning, knitting, weaving, or doing other eye-hand coordination activities. For those times, I tune in to old radio plays online.