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I am 99.9 percent sure that I've never heard anyone in normal conversation say "I read an audiobook." Certainly I've never said it. I generally say "I read so-and-so's latest book," or "I read such-and-such title." I don't specify audiobook unless it's relevant, or unless I have something to say about the narration or production values.
But now some people are telling me that I haven't been reading, oh no. I've been listening. Please don't piously say that you're not disparaging listening--of course you are; in your insistence on making the distinction, you are claiming that my listening is less valid than your visual reading. Somehow listening is supposedly more "passive" than sitting and looking at a page of text. Seriously?
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