Discuss: Do audiobooks "count"?

[Rowan]

So I've been lurking on librarything for some time now and see that some people count audiobooks as "books they've read".

What do you think?

[Sílvia]

Well, some people are huge fans. I'm not one of them. To me they're just not the same thing. But yeah, I think they count because they do tell the story.

[Spudd]

I'm one of the people that counts them. I listen to audiobooks on my commute, and I don't see why they wouldn't count. Abridged ones maybe shouldn't count, but if it's unabridged, why not? I only listen to the unabridged ones, personally, I don't want someone deciding for me which parts of the book are worth reading and which aren't.