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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I always assumes that was left over from the days of long distance telegraphs, in the same way you "tape" a tv show. Anyone know for sure?
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It's a usage that everyone accepts as valid where reading is something done with the ears.
I think it's ungenerous not to accept reading as something that can be done with an audiobook even without other accepted usages of reading relating to listening, but with other valid usages such as this it borders on the absurd.
The resistance may stem from stories told aurally through the ages often being condensed as needed or changing while a printed book is often more comprehensive and finite, and the first big push on audiobooks some decades ago often featuring very abridged (and sometimes unlabelled as such) versions of printed books. Now however we are entering the new age of unabridged audiobooks where what is spoken equals what is written word for word, and thus reading an audiobook is wholly appropriate and supported by other usages of the verb.