Reading audiobooks is still reading.
If you say you read an audiobook you don't have to "correct" yourself. I'd argue that you /shouldn't/, that you'd get less correct.
There's no need to say "well no I didn't read it" if it was an audiobook. There's no need to put "reading" in scare quotes.
It's reading just as much as reading print is.
I know there are worse problems, but it sucks having my favored reading format denigrated by sighted people, even to the point of them denying it's "real."
To add more notes on the same theme: People often want to default to narrower semantic definitions.
It's worth keeping in mind that "read" started out in English with an even wider range of semantics (originally as "advise") than it currently has, one of the main one beings "interpret, decipher". And that, connected to the "decipher" sense, it's in fact cognate with "riddle".
@emacsomancer my senior seminar when I was trying to do an English degree was on Old English riddles. I really loved them.
And yes, one of my utterly pointless pet peeves that I can't seem to rid myself of is people calling Aethelred "the Unready" (a strangely common throwaway reference in Britain), when it was nothing to do with the modern word ready but should be something more like "ill-advised."
@bright_helpings Old English riddles are lovely! @cadadr and I were talking about them a few weeks ago in connection with one of his own riddle poems.
(Yeah, I have the same peeve about Aethelred's moniker.)
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