I like ingest! That said, I believe OP is offended at being referred to in an impersonal way. As such, I don't believe there's much to be done for him beyond "

I like ingest! That said, I believe OP is offended at being referred to in an impersonal way. As such, I don't believe there's much to be done for him beyond "don't refer to people by their actions", which is impractical. "I ingested [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 ingesters of [The Sandlot] this week!" are, to my mind, faaaaaairly equivalent to "I consumed [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 consumers of [The Sandlot] this week!" Not terribly compelling but... "ingest" has a gut association whilst "consume" has a head connotation... so... there's that. However, there is a fun distinction between the two. "Consuming" a book, to me, just implies you read it. "Digesting" and "ingesting" have implications of /rumination/.