Opinion time: Is an audiobook reading?

Or, better, when can you say you’ve experienced what the author meant to say?

Book

e-Book

Condensed book (Reader’s Digest used to do these, but stopped in 1997. But there seems to be a revival.)

Graphic novel of the book (e.g. Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower have been done this way)

Audiobook

Condensed audiobook (still around)

Cliff’s Notes

Movie (there are HOW many versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?)

Wikipedia plot summary

There’s a line to be drawn SOMEWHERE, but where do you personally draw it? There also hybrid experiences: A couple of months ago, I got an audiobook of David Copperfield, but then did about 1/3 of the book by reading it. This meant that while I was reading, I was often hearing the voice of the audiobook narrator in my head.

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For some of us, it might not be a choice: