📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
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@bibliolater @bookstodon No - it's called *listening*. 👂 It uses a different sense. 👁️ You don't go "read a movie" either.
It's perfectly fine that people enjoy listening to audiobooks, so I'm not judging the activity—just the use of language.
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