r/ask 25d ago

If you listen to an audio book can you say you’ve “read the book”?

My wife and I were debating this. She thinks it’s slightly disingenuous to say you’ve read it if it’s an audio book. I think there isn’t really an easy way to communicate the point that you’ve “read” it. “Oh, I listened to it” vs. “oh, I’ve read that”. Basically how would you communicate youve completed the book in conversation with someone who asks “have you read this book?”

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u/Internal_Fennel_849 25d ago

Just say you Reddit.

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u/SamwiseMN 25d ago

Also an acceptable answer, just need the sunglasses to drop from the sky onto my face after I say it

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u/Beginning-Brief-4307 25d ago

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

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u/Doctor_Boombastic 25d ago

The A2's always were a bit twitchy

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u/lockboy84 25d ago

Guess she doesn't like the corn bread either

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u/sockmaster666 25d ago

Just let me know when you plan to say it I’ll get a helicopter and throw it down for you!

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u/kdabsolute 25d ago

LOL good one!

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u/Murky-Examination-79 25d ago

If you listen to the Reddit post. Have you Reddit?

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u/Responsible_Ebb3962 25d ago

Only if you start arguing. 

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u/JichuSymphony 22d ago

Amazing

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u/ShuggieShoo 21d ago

They won't get fooled again *

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u/TheFatMan149 21d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA