Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine's Time?

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In " Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity ," American Journal of Philology 121 (2000) 593-627 William A. Johnson quoted Augustine's passage from the Confessions concerning the reading habits of his mentor, the archbishop of Milan, Aurelius Ambrosius , who read silently. The inference is that silent reading was unusual in Augustine's time: