How do you define "reading" ?

According to Merriam-Webster's definition of the word, reading means: "the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch."

Sight nor touch is involved when listening to an audiobook, thus it is not reading.

"especially". Especially by sight or touch. Not exclusively or systemically. Audiobooks can technically still be included in that definition.

Matthew Traxler, who teaches psychology at the University of California, says that "most psycholinguists (they study language the psychological and neurobiological aspects that allow humans to process language) agree that the “mental machinery” involved in the higher-level understanding of a narrative, plot, and so on, is the same regardless of how you consume the book." maybe it's not about the definition so much as the mechanisms, other than merely sight, that are involved.

Oxford languages also says that reading can mean to "speak (the written or printed matter that one is reading) aloud, typically to another person." therefore, the reader is the speaker, not the one who listens.

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