Oh, on the subject of reading, I'm firmly on the side of lots of things are reading and reading is an open activity everyone who wants to should be free to enjoy and we all lose when we start making up rules that keep people out of storytelling and engagement with art.

Comic books are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Having someone read to you, or listening to someone read out loud is reading. It's reading even if you don't understand it, and it's reading if it's "too easy" for you, or too hard. It's reading if it's fancy and it's reading if it's smut.

If given a choice between reading and listening to someone tell you you aren't reading correctly, I advise stop listening to the someone and go read however it is you do it.