Techno-determinism is a one way street

I'm curious about this logical inconsistency. Is it ok?

I came across a post the other day that was trying to stick up for audiobooks.

“LISTENING TO A BOOK IS THE SAME AS READING A BOOK. PERIOD. STOP.”

It was something along those lines. The poster apparently felt bullied or inadequately intellectually respected.

In their eyes, the new technological medium of audiobooks did not sacrifice anything to the previous form and activity that it updated: reading a physical book. Many hold that there is something medium-specific about the written word, and that the act of listening to audio is cognitively and culturally distinct from the act of reading text visually.¹

I don’t want to make an argument “for” or “against” listening to books. If you are interested in that, it seems there is evidence that as far as your brain is concerned, they are the same.

Instead, I want to point to a comment someone made in response.

“So, then does this mean that when I read a book, I also listen to it on audio?”