The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. Read it in one day.

Reading is a verb that means something. It means moving your eyes back in forth, deciphering letters to form meaning. We do not read audiobooks. We listen to them. No disrespect to audiobook listeners, but it is not reading.

I see what you’re saying about similar books. I think maybe it comforts people, but since they are literally moving their eyes to decipher letters into meaning, it is reading.

I think the problem arises when people want to meet reading goals and skim over paragraphs, or even lie about what they read. At the end of the day, reading is an internal, self-developmental task.

Happy reading, or listening. No judgement.