OK y’all. I need your help.
First a question. For those of you who listen to books on tape, what do you say when a book you listened to comes up in conversation? Do you say you read it or do you say you listened to it? I am curious because of the perceived exclusivity associated with the two words, i.e. [to read] implies some kind of ocular task while [to listen] is aural. I find it strange, for myself, to say that I listened to a book, but equally strange to say that I read a book (that I listened to on tape). Does anyone else find this at all incongruous?
A second question. For those of you who do find these terms to be incompatible, what do you suggest? A new word? Or expanding the definitions of either [to read] or [to listen]?