GagaJo Your post has two meanings and I am not sure which you mean.
The word 'read' has 2 pronunciations and both make sense in the context you used that word. Which meaning did you mean?
I make no pretence about having a house full of books and using them. Both DH and I have interests that have led to us building up research libraries. Most books are bought secondhand. Few are novels.
If people label me as an intellectual, I do not give a toss. The word is generally used as an insult and I have been called much worse.
As to the other meanig of 'read'. I read all the time. In my childhood I was described, qute accurately, as a child who would read the back of a bus ticket. Nowadays I am never knowingly more than a few feet from a book, newspaper or magazine and have four books on the go at the moment. The one in the bathroom that i read while the bath runs (it is very slow), one by my bed, one on the living room and, of course, one on my kindle, for waits anywhere, I read it for 20 minutes in the Osteopath yesterday while DH was having treatment.
Is the above virtue signalling? I have no idea. It is how I like to lead my life.