Listening to audio books with children can't have the effect of reading. One is by listening, and the other is by watching. Reading is mainly a process of obtaining information from visual materials. Since it is visual material, it is an active process. We should sink our hearts to taste books, and understand and absorb books through reading.

Reading through audio books will reduce the pleasure of reading, but it does not mean that audio books are useless. Listening to books is better than not reading at all. Listening to books can also make children more imaginative, and at the same time make it easier for children to understand the contents of the book. Young children, in particular, have little literacy, so they can better understand the contents of the book by listening.

Reading with children can promote parent-child relationship, increase children's literacy and increase their understanding ability. The most important thing to read paper books is to improve children's understanding ability, which first lies in the decoding ability of language. When reading a paper book, you have to go through two processes: decoding and voice processing, but when listening to a book, you will skip decoding and go directly to the language processing process. So listening to books is easier to understand than reading paper books.

Many children may be accustomed to the simple way of listening to books, and it will be more difficult to decode paper books. Listening to books is also more suitable for story books. Some high-quality books need to be decoded and understood repeatedly, and listening to books will not have such an effect. When reading a paper book, you will pay attention, but when listening to a book, your attention may not be so concentrated, and it is easy to get distracted. Even if you are distracted by reading paper books, you can quickly return to the original point to continue reading, but it is difficult to do this by listening to books.

It is suggested that listening to books and reading paper books should be combined to better understand the content. This will allow children to connect hearing with vision and help them understand better. If children are not interested in reading paper books, you can let them listen to books first, and then gradually become interested in reading. You can't just listen to books or read properly, in order to improve the overall reading level.