I have been reading audiobooks for long enough to grow tired of people who deny that I am reading. My own mother says, with stigma, "ah, you listened to another book." Yes, Mom. I read the book.

My arguement is simple. We don't tell visual text readers that they "looked at another book" now do we? I am constantly hearing from ignorant family members that the only way to read is their way. "Why must you listen to those classics? Haven't you ever read a book, haven't you ever got lost in a book?"

I did find The Sorrows of Young Werther absorbing. Just like Metamorphasis, A Doll's House, and My Antonia. Does the simple fact that I used my ears to read these books make me less than literary?

I think not!