I've been seeing discourse online that listening to audio books doesn't count as reading I count audio books

What are you guys thoughts on that?

Curious what yalls threshold is for considering a book as ‘read’ if you’re not fully reading it cover to cover.

I’m thinking mostly in terms of non-fiction where certain chapters or sections may not be in line with why you picked up the book. As an example, I’m reading Bringing up Bebe which was written by an American mother living in France detailing her observations in the differences in raising children in each country. It’s part memoir, part child sociology/psych theory and comparison, and I have been heavily skimming the memoir components because they don’t interest me much.

Would you consider the book as read if you just get what you want out of it? Or are you a purist where all words in the books need to be consumed to consider it read?

In elementary school my friends and I assigned subjects a color. This would often lead to many arguments lol.

For example:

Math- red Social studies- blue Science- purple History- orange ELA- pink

For me it kinda goes:

Romance- pink Fantasy- purple Mystery- brown Science fiction- grey

But there are so many genres I am hoping to hear what colors you would assign to your favorite(s)!!

I am admittedly reading this only because I've read everywhere it's almost required for the stormlight archive and I'm not finding it the most exciting read of the year but I'm enjoying it

I am loving this book, the Russian themes and aspects are fantastic. I am listening to the audiobook and the narrator has a slight accent that is perfect. I will say that the switches between character viewpoints are a little abrupt and I sometimes struggle to tell who exactly is the next view point. Especially when they added the third one in.

Edited for spelling.

I now just realized I didn’t even read the description of the book before listening to it. I’m surprised by stuff that was already written in the description 😅