word usage - "...the document read like a statement..." - Is this just a mistake?

When I was reading the now ongoing investigation and interrogation on Comey.,

in the 4th paragraph

In an op-ed for the New York Times Serratore argued that the document read like a statement from a survivor of workplace harassment. At a January 27 dinner, she noted, Comey found out he would be alone with the president.

Now everybody knows the document(s) can not read by itself.

Is this a mistake? Or grammatically correct?

I am sorry if I sound like trying to find trifle things.

Answer

Just to make an answer out of the above comments, since no one has in the previous two days:

When a document or sign or sentence "reads", it generally means one of two things:

1. (Transitive.) To have a given message on it available to be read; to "bear (a specified inscription)" (OED entry read, v., VI, 24).

There is no point driving around it looking for a sign reading ‘City Centre’, because there isn't one.

2. (Intransitive.) To have a given tone when read, to "produce a particular impression on readers" (as @P.E.Dant cited from the same OED entry, VI, 22 b).

Danielewski's newest offering reads like a love story that slipped into a particle accelerator.

In the example you cited, the second meaning is intended.