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Originally Posted by HarryT
For me, the fundamental question to ask is "who is actually performing the activity?". When someone reads a book, they are doing the reading. When someone reads Braille, once again they are doing the reading. But when I listen to an audiobook, I'm not doing the reading; the narrator is. In the same way, if I listen to a CD of a violin concerto, I'm not playing the concerto myself, but listening to someone else play it.
Of course, anyone else is free to use any definition of "reading" that appeals to them. I'm just saying what my own definition is and why, as an avid listener to audiobooks, I don't personally consider what I'm doing to be reading.
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I think that, if a person can retain all or most of the contents of a book, and can give a credible summary, both after having listened to it, then I consider he or she has read the book.