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Originally Posted by patrickt
Sorry, but you don't "read" audiobooks even if you put the word in quotation marks. You listen to audiobooks that someone else is reading to you. My mother used to read to me. I know what you mean, though. I've never read "To Kill a Mockingbird" but I saw the movie starring Gregroy Peck. So, I "read" the book on the movie screen.
I enjoy reading. Some don't. That's perfectly legitimate but listening or watching isn't reading.
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A movie is not a book.
An audiobook is a book. If unabridged (which is ALWAYS my choice), an audibook has the exact same content as a pbook and ebook.
You cant say you have "read" a book if you saw the movie, simply because the movie is not a book. But one can say they have "read" an audiobook because audiobooks are books! They are not frickin' movies.
Most if not all of the people on mobileread enjoy reading, so I don't know what your point is. Watching a movie is certainly not equal to reading a book. But listening an audiobook is certainly equal to reading it, in terms of the actual content of the book.