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What is it to read a book?

In a conversation last year, a (Facebook) friend wrote about having read a book. Then it came out that what he’d done was to listen to it on Audible during his morning walks.
So, all questions about the goodness or badness of audiobooks aside: is listening to an audiobook of, say, Crime and Punishment the same thing as reading it? To me, reading seems like a fundamentally different experience.