Audiobooks vs. Print Books

Hello Dewey Readers!

So for the past five months or so I have been commuting further to work.
It’s about a 35-50 minute
drive depending on traffic and the time of day, so I have been listening to
more audiobooks to pass the
time.  But today, as I was sitting at my desk I began thinking about the books
I have read so far this
year, and I started to wonder if my audiobooks should be counted in the same way
that my print
books are.

This year so far I have read 23 books.  6 of these books are audiobooks,
5 of these books are poetry

collections, and  12 are regular print books. Does the way that we digest
the material affect the way that our bodies and minds respond to it?  
Is an audiobook any less than a book?

I found this 2017 article Allison Russell wrote for Book Riot.  Like me, she
also read 23 books at
the time her article was written, a number which contained both a mixture
of print and
audiobook formats. In her list Russell differentiates which books are print
and which are audio.  
I do this as well with my GoodReads account.

No matter how one consumes the material, the knowledge and story will
still be there,
the characters still imagined, and the words digested.  If I listen to the audiobook of
Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From, I will still be able to discuss it with
someone who has
read the print version.  So why shouldn’t it count? And if audiobooks are treated
differently from print
books, should poetry collections that are short in words and page length,
also be treated differently?

So Dewey Readers, let us know your thoughts about audiobooks vs print books
in the comments
below! How do you keep track of your yearly reading total?

~Jessica