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As a librarian I hear this discussion often, that audio books aren't real reading, they are cheating and as a result, many kids are dissuaded from taking out audio books. So this is to set the record straight; Are Audio Books Cheating? Well that depends on how you define reading. If you define reading as the decoding of words where you break the letters into their sounds and then into spoken language then probably, audio books are cheating. But let's be realistic unless you a