Do you count listening to audiobooks as reading?

Literally, no. But I still consider a book I listened to as a book I've "read". In my case, when I do listen to an audiobook, 90% of the time I listen to some of it and physically read some, so the line gets especially blurred.

Only if you don't know how to read, sucka!

Fair point.  Let me see if I can explain my POV on this more clearly in my one words (and not come across as a lecturing snit.)

My daughter lost her vision to a pediatric brain tumor 5 years ago (just before her 13th birthday) and was quite concerned that she be able to “read” books which was and activity that was very dear to her.

Disputing our process of helping her research whether she was actually still “reading” we learned that the parts of your brain that processes story are the same regardless of whether you are reading a book visually or listening to is as an audiobook and they are different than the parts of your brain that process either music (an audio medium) or TV/film (an audio/visual medium).  The main difference between reading words on a page and hearing them is the part of your brain that use as an on-ramp.  With visual reading you mostly use the left side of you brain and it required more “decoding” efforts.  With audio “reading” there is less decoding required and it actually uses more of a balance left/right brain effort.  But in the end the language processing for written language and oral language are done through the exact same mental process.

If fact processing story as a visual medium (through writing) is a fairly recent development in human history and for thousands of years language was purely an auditory function.  So when humanity invented writing (and when people learn to read) the neural patterns that were (are) used to process written language were (are) the exact same ones that evolved to process speech.

So that’s basically the simple scientific breakdown as I understand it.  There are some more complex aspects to it on the decoding side having to do with prosody (pace/pitch/and rhythm) that you have to discover for your self when reading visually and are provide for you when you listen to to a reader.  But where me and my daughter left is that yes, she is still reading when she listens to an audio book.  (And, no, you are not reading Rubber Soul as that is being processed in a totally different part of the brain)

(Afterthought:  I don’t think anyone would question that a blind person reading via braille would count as real reading despite the fact that it is being done tactily rather than visually).

Nope. I tried, I just don't retain what I would from book.

Oddly, I enjoy podcast mini-series.

I sometimes say I have read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. If the subject of conversation is strictly the books themselves and not my overall experience with them, I would rather not get off the subject. I don't consider that to be misleading. By the way, if you can find those books read by Edward Hermann they never get boring, not even the long speeches by the leading characters. During the time between my eyesight fading with age and my discovery of reading glasses, I ceased to be a voracious reader. Since then I have usually preferred audiobooks.

In certain cases, yes I do.  Especially for those who are visually impaired, or for those who've had a stroke, and it affected their vision as well.  One of my daughters has given me an audiobook that I still need to listen to.