Sorry, ‘flue’ is just my incompetence at using the English language

No, don’t apologize; your command of English is far superior to my grasp of German!

(about all I can say is: “Ich spreche nicht Deutsch” and “Sprechen sie Englisch?” – and when I put those phrases into Google Translate to check myself, I found that I had the wrong word for ‘Englisch’ – I thought it was something like Anglit!)

What does Puerto Rico have to do with this?

really fucking pedantic

I guess I am. Reading is reading. Listening is listening. I’m not a fan of “reading means reading or listening, depending on whether the thing you’re listening to is labeled ‘audiobook’”.

Communication is easier when we agree on what the words actually mean.

People who listen to audiobooks usually call it reading, IME.