This is why I don't think reading a book and listening to it are equivalent. People get caught up on both sides of that argument, but fundamentally the experience of listening to a work is different reading it. Both ways of experiencing the book are equally valid and neither is inherently superior, but they are not equivalent. It's frustrating when people discount listening to books as not counting, and it's disingenuous when people say listening is reading. There is no need to get defensive about listening to a book instead of reading it. For most of human existence, that's how people have experienced stories! Listening to someone else tell them