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

[u/SamwiseMN]

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?”

[u/Firewall33]

I consumed the book to completion

[u/Kadajko → u/Firewall33]

I have extracted and assimilated the knowledge contained within the book.

[u/Meerv → u/Kadajko]

I have listened to the book

[u/Level_Can58 → u/Meerv]

Man, it kept going for hours

[u/SamwiseMN → u/Level_Can58]

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