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If you watch movies/shows based on books with subtitles, does it count as you already reading those books?

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    Also do you eat your breakfast first before brushing your teeth or after?, or you brushing your teeth then eat breakfast then brushing your teeth again?

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      Also do you eat your breakfast first before brushing your teeth or after?, or you brushing your teeth then eat breakfast then brushing your teeth again?

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      What books have subtitles?

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        No, not any more than someone telling you the plot of a movie or book would count as reading it. That’s generally the extent of the original work's content that survives the process of adaptation. (A possible exception is faithful adaptations of stage plays like Shakespeare or Euripides—in that case watching a subtitled production might be considered the equivalent of reading the script.)

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          Also do you eat your breakfast first before brushing your teeth or after?, or you brushing your teeth then eat breakfast then brushing your teeth again?

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          Very much not. For example the movie “Master & Commander” is based on a book but skips a lot of stuff.

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            Not even close. Take Foundation, for instance. The show is ok in itself, but when compared to the books, it neglects so many vital details (in my opinion) that it became downright frustrating to watch after a point, subtitles or no. As a positive example, The Shining the movie and The Shining the book are both brilliant works of art, but are very different all in all.

            As for brushing my teeth, after breakfast/coffee (I serve both immediately after waking up, because I usually wake up starving and groggy).

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              No. Movie/show adaptations of books are often wildly different than their source. Some of them are barely recognizable, sharing only the most basic of premis.

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                No, lots of things change in adaptation.

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                  No, not at all. A movie is two hours or so and an average book will take 4 or 5 times that at a minimum.

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                    No. They don't just paste the contents of the book into the subtitles, they transcribe the dialogue and sfx just like they do for original shows. It would be pretty crappy if a deaf/HoH person wanted to experience a movie like normal but the accessibility features were repurposed for speed reading.

                    Also I brush after breakfast

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