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Yeah, you miaunderstand me.
You can still enjoy the content, but the process isn't reading that's all.
I enjoy them too. Audio books are great. Several members of my family are blind and it is a form we can enjoy.
Interestingly the fact that several people can enjoy an audiobook at once supports my argument that it is not reading... A somewhat solo pursuit unless someone reads aloud.
So, respectfully, I think you've got the wrong end of this stick.
But I do want to say that it gives me genuine pleasure that you've found a way to enjoy those stories.
Would you say that someone reading printed out lyrics is listening to music?
Maybe if they were looking at a musical score? Is that listening to music?
I'd suggest it is a way of experience it. But it certainly isn't listening to it.
I think reading is the same.
Audio books are not worse, not lesser, but they are different and that's why I'd say they are not reading.