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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must respectfully disagree. It's "listening", not "reading". That's not to say that listening is in any way inferior to reading; it's simply a different activity involving different senses. The narrator is reading the book; I am listening to the narrator reading the book.
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"Read" has multiple meanings. One, a very narrow one, is restricted to visually perceiving linguistic symbols and mentally translating them to meaning. A much broader one involves interpreting the meaning of any text (and 'text' can be considered narrowly or broadly also). We also read lips; we read music; people reading Braille are reading; etc etc etc.
I don't believe that staking out a tiny margin around one particular kind of reading, and declaring that to be the one and only true meaning, serves much in the way of useful purpose.