I can understand there's sort of a linguistic disconnect there when we say someone read a book by listening to it; what helped me divorce myself from the notion that reading is something that must be done with the eyes is remembering that blind people using braille are reading with touch
I get that but to me Braille is still a “hands on” approach like reading with your eyes. You still use touch, to turn the pages, you smell the paper. To me reading is a full spectrum experience not just plugging ear buds in & listening to a book. But that’s just me, I’m a very tactile person though